“The Honors College makes UB feel like not such a big place. In your freshman year, they’re really helpful with getting you into the classes you want. I go to the Honors office when I have questions or need their help with something like gettting a waiver to take more than the standard maximum number of credits a sophomore can take; they've helped me out with class scheduling. I like the monthly email newsletter, which has program updates, news, job openings, requests for volunteers, and so on.”
“I’m really close with the people from my Honors colloquium.” Kristie and her four teammates bonded during the community service component of their colloquium. They identified a Buffalo Public School library that needed an upgrade, wrote up the project for approval, created a budget, acquired 200 new books for the shelves, furnished it with beanbag chairs, and painted the walls. “It turned out great.” Kristie valued the experience beyond the learning and the community service because her classmates were “people I wouldn’t have met otherwise because they’re taking different majors.”
Kristie selected UB because she wanted to go to a big school someplace far enough away from home so that living on campus would make sense, but not too far away. She chose engineering after advice from her high school physics teacher. Then she decided on electrical engineering after completing the first year of courses common to all engineering majors. And then she added a second major in math when she realized that she could upgrade from a math minor with just a few more courses. Now she’s trying to decide whether to spend the extra year it will take to add an MBA to her engineering degree. So far all Kristie's choices are going just right.