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Meet Kait
Background
- Hometown: Oxford, MI
- High School: Oxford High School
- Year: Senior
- Major: Interdisciplinary Health Studies
- Minor: Holistic Health
- Position: Beyond Your Horizons Coordinator
Kait's Advice for Freshman
The most important piece of advice I can give to any prospective student is to know your options. My mom tried to pressure me into a major from the time I was a senior in high school until I decided on one. She would call me everyday asking if I had made a decision. I almost gave in to Chemical Engineering a few times, and while it’s a great program, it’s not for me. I am glad that I knew my options so that I could take my time and really find out what I wanted to do. You don’t have to come to college knowing everything about what you want to do with the rest of your life; in fact, most people either come as undeclared majors or switch majors at least once. I love where I am now in my college career and what I decided to do, and I know that it’s because I knew what my choices were, and I knew how to obtain my goals once I finally decided on a major. Take your time; you don’t have to know everything right away.
About Kait
Hi! I’m Kait from Oxford (Northern Oakland County), and I am a fourth year student at WMU. I graduated from Oxford High School in 2004. Music and dancing are my passions. I was in symphonic band, marching band (I was in Color Guard), and jazz band in high school, and I have played seven different instruments. I have been in dance since I was two and a half years old. With all the artsy passions that I have, I LOVE math and science, which some people think is a weird combination. My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I was involved in cheerleading and softball. My junior and senior years, I got more into dance, and as a result, I wasn’t able to fit the sports into my schedule, so I opted for clubs instead. I was involved in Peer Mediation (all four years), Quiz Bowl, Student’s Against Destructive Decisions (my senior year, I was the treasurer), National Honors Society, and various volunteer organizations and events.
I have known since seventh grade that I wanted to come to Western. I actually
became interested in WMU because someone that I danced with came here. When
I became a junior and actually had to start thinking about where I wanted
to go to college, WMU was an obvious choice. It’s not too far from
home, and I could have gone somewhere much farther away; I started discussing
colleges
that were farther away, and my mom gave in to WMU. Western wasn’t my
only choice, though. I came on Western’s campus for the first time
my senior year for On-Site Admissions. When I walked up the hill to the Bernhard
Center
for that first time by myself, I felt at home. The first thing I did when
I got home that day was throw the applications to the other universities
in the
garbage. Cheesy story, I know, but I love telling it!
My major right now is Interdisciplinary Health Studies, but I didn’t
know that when I came here as a freshman. I actually wanted to go into
Chemical Engineering, Interior Design, or Psychology. I opted to go into
the University
Curriculum program at WMU (a program for undeclared students), where I
got the opportunity to really explore my options. It was there that I decided
that
I wanted to do something in Health and Human Services. I lived in the residence
halls for two years, and now I live in an apartment about two miles from
campus.
I loved living on campus!
My roommate and I decided after our freshman year that we loved living
on campus. We made
a lot of friends my freshman year, but we wanted more, so we lived on
campus our sophomore year, as well. We were glad that we made the right
decision
about our second year, and we wouldn’t have done it any other way!