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Majored in: Environmental conservation and sustainability. I was undeclared engineering my freshman year, but I started to feel like I wasn鈥檛 getting enough people interaction. I realized I love working with people, and I鈥檓 passionate about the environment.听

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What advice would you give your freshman self if you could? Spend time early on to make sure you have the academic side of things down in college. Start your freshman year off right. As you progress, you can move a little bit away from that and start exploring. Also, develop your own social support system or network. Find the classmates in your major, your professors, in general other faculty and staff... people you can rely on, who will point you in the right direction for opportunities. The sooner you can do that the sooner you will be successful.

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