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Background
- Hometown: Royal Oak, MI
- High School: Bishop Foley High School
- Year: Junior
- Major: Finance
- Minor(s): General Business/Military Science
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Advice for Freshman
My advice for students looking around at colleges is to go visit the places you are thinking about attending and choose the school that is the right fit for you. Do not pick a school based on where your friends are going.
About Alaina
Hello there! My name is Alaina and I am from Royal Oak, Michigan. I graduated from Bishop Foley High School (a private school) in 2007. The high school I went to was very small, so everyone knew everyone. I was eager to break out of that environment and go to a larger school. In high school I was active in sports and extracurricular activities. I played soccer, softball, and ran both cross country and track. I was on my high schools robotics team (no, I was not the nerd!), did a lot of community service, and worked throughout high school. Now I look back and wonder where all the money went that I earned!
Throughout high school I was dead set on going to a college out of state. As the time approached in which I had to start making decisions about where I was going to go to school, I realized that maybe as far away as I could go wouldn't be the best idea. I then looked into Western. It is withing two and a half hours of home, so my parents still need to call when they want to visit, but close enough that I can go home for the weekend. Western was also appealing because I had friends and family that attended the school. As for my major, how did I choose finance? Let me just get this out there... I LOVE MONEY! I saved up for my first car by the time I was twelve. I enjoy watching markets and researching ways to invest money. I am a people person, so if you combined those two things together you can arrive at my dream job. I eventually want to be a personal financial planner. The military schience minor comes along with being in the Army ROTC program during my time at Western. I am on ROTC scholarship currently and when I graduate in 2011, I will be commissioned into the US Army as a Second Leiutenant.
I am involved in activities both on and off campus. It was important to me that when I came to kalamazoo, I not only tried to help make a difference on campus, but also a community. On campus, I am in the Army ROTC program, student ambassador program, compete in various business school competitions, and am on the ROTC color gaurd team. Off campus I am a coach for a charity called Girls on the Run. I coached a team of third through fifth graders for a 5k race while also building character and self confidence at a local Kalamazoo school. In my free time, I love to hang out with friends, go to the movies, and shop. I must say, Downtown Kalamazoo has an awesome penny candy store!