After a quick tour of the campus I encountered a few people I had noticed before but never really talked to. One rather large but very nice young guy who is always in the Athletic Buliding and a girl I met on the bus a few days ago who asked several questions about Metro State. After an indepth conversation with each of them about their plans for the future I discovered to interesting stories about a man almost done with his education and a women just starting it.
Josh Anderson, 25 is a senior at Metro and will be graduating at the end of this semester. He is in incredible shape and works out every day. In fact he’s really only taking this final term so he can continue to exercise regularly, taking advantage of the campus gym/facilities. He is a couple credits away from a business degree and will be starting an internship with the finance firm William Smith & Co. in the summer. He will also be starting grad school and waiting tables so his schedule will be very tight.
“I took my time with college, spacing out my credits so I wouldn’t be too swamped and would have all this time to get and stay in shape.”
Josh said he wasn’t very healthy until his last year in high school. “I focused really hard and buckled down in school my first freshman and sophomore year. Got as much done as I could early on.”
As a result, Josh could graduate early, at the end of his junior year, the same year he decided to get in shape. Bordering on two hundred pounds his sophomore year, he started slowly conditioning himself by joining the cross country team, and later the track team. His school schedule didn’t allow him to join any other major sports but he liked to practice with the football, baseball, and lacrosse team on occasion to “change it up.”
Lisa Marko, 22, is just now inquiring about attending metro state. She was at Central Classroom making the rounds to find out about financial aid and registration. She plans to start her first semester in the summer but wants to get a jump start on things so she’s ready. Lisa took a few classes in community college after she graduated high school in Montana. The next winter she moved to Colorado with her boyfriend, he wanted to live near bigger mountains and she wanted to open a bakery. She started out working as an apprentice in a cake shop in Arvada, Royal Bakery. Realizing how unprepared she was to start her own business she decided it would be a good idea to go to school first. Those plans were interrupted by a pregnancy scare resulting in a miscarriage. She broke up with her boyfriend and went back to Montana for a while to sort things out. Now she’s back on track with her school plans and is checking out different options. She really likes this campus and location but she is also considering staying in her home state and attending U of Montana, or going to Texas, a state she’s never been to before for a brand new start.
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