Meet the Peer Advisors
Anthropology
Megan Pehrson
Success to me is: "... accomplishing a goal. A goal that you have really worked on. Something that was trying, but you pushed until the end."
Academic Resource Center
Kaela Jorgensen
Success to me is: "... when what you once feared has become what exhilarates you."
Biology
Taryn Rowe
Success to me is: "... setting a goal and doing my best to achieve it. The outcome may not necessarily be what I expected, but as long as I did everything possible to achieve that goal, the results are arbitrary. Success comes when we do not allow ourselves to become confined or limited by anyone else's expectations. As long as I meet my own expectations, I consider myself to be successful!"
Kim Rawlins
Success to me is: "... means accomplishing a goal. No matter how small the goal begins, once achieved you will strive to build bigger goals and therefore achieve greater success!"
Zac Zabriskie
Success to me is: "... earning little victories that accumulate to become large triumphs; it is working towards and reaching our goals!"
College of Agriculture
Ashlee Diamond
Success to me is: "... loving what you are doing and pushing yourself beyond what you believe you are capable of accomplishing!"
Alyssa O'Toole
Success to me is: "... accomplish your goals and dreams while having the time of your life along the way!"
Jared Lundquist
Success to me is: "... deciding where we would like to end up. As long as we are moving toward our goal, we are having success!"
Elementary Education
Abigale Griffiths
Success to me is: “... trying and continuing to try regardless of the outcome!”
Family, Consumer and Human Development
Emily Pitt
Success to me is: "... learning from the past, looking forward to the future, and living up to the present to it's full potential. It is finding hapiness in every situation!"
Health, Physical Education and Recreation
Becky Checketts
Success to me is: “... means being happy with your Plan C!”
Languages, Philosophy and Speech Communication
Jason Jensen
Success to me is: "... what one may aspire for and never achieve through selfish acts. The true core of altruism!"
Natural Resources
Ashley Graham
Success to me is: "... making goals and meeting them with my best efforts. I can rest well when I have given it my very best shot!"
Psychology
Brian McKenna
Success to me is: "... use knowledge and skills to DO something that changes people in a positive way, myself included. Real change revolves around relationships; not products or programs. If I do my best to meet the expectations of those I admire, effectively provide my help to those within my sphere, and maintain the trust of all, then I am successful!"
Social Work
Shiree Ryan
Success to me is: "... never giving up, not succumbing to failure, and using failure as a tool to learn how to succeed. Personal happiness is another tool I use for measuring success; if I am happy no matter how hard the work may be then I know I am on the path that leads to accomplishing my goals and dreams!"
Sociology
Jonathan Roberts
Success to me is: "... never giving up on your hopes and dreams, seeing them come to pass, and being ecstatic with the outcome!"
Special Education
Heidi Coe
Success to me is: "... S - stunning, U - you (yourself), C - communicator, C - collaborative, E - excited, S - savvy, S - satisfied!"
Study Abroad
Kourtney Blanc
Success to me is: "... when you make your dreams reality. Like Henry David Thoreau said 'If you have built castles in the air ... that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them'!"
University Advising
Albert Packer
Success to me is: "... pushing your hardest, with a positive attitude, and never giving up!"
Bryan Mortensen
Success to me is: "... like doing a back flip; in the beginning you might land on your head a few times. But with practice you become more confident and it becomes easier and easier!"
Liz Martinez
Success to me is: "... not victory, it is not failure, it is knowledge. Something you learned you never would have known if you hadn't tried!"