[Ryan Dognaux]

After hearing many a story about slipping grades, burnout, and such, I decided to take a more laid back year with FIRST. I helped with Boilermaker Regional, and that was it. And I think it has proven to be a good choice, my 3.5 GPA is right about where I want to be for my freshman year and I have had more time to dedicate to school work. Though I'm not going into Engineering, the Computer Graphics Technology department at Purdue has given me more projects this year than I had throughout many years in high school. Regardless of your major, your first year of college is meant to test you and it will. Now that I've had a year off, I'm hoping to come back full force next season.