Derek Roggenbuck
HVAC engi­neer­ing technology

Did you start in that major when you came to Ferris? Yes, I started in the HVAC pro­gram and grad­u­ated with my associate’s.

What’s your best mem­ory at Ferris State? Some of the best mem­o­ries I have at Ferris State are teach­ing swim lessons at the UREC. I have been teach­ing some of them for four years, and it’s the best feel­ing see­ing your kids grow over the years.

What was your most embar­rass­ing moment at FSU? I don’t really think I get embar­rassed, though one of my fun­ni­est sto­ries is play­ing bumper cars with Wal-Mart gro­cery carts at Venlo.

What was your favorite class at FSU? My Favorite class is HVAC 499. The rea­son for this is I spend over 40 hours in the lab out­side of class. This class has made the Granger Building my first home and my apart­ment my sec­ond home.

How do you think your expe­ri­ence from here will help you in the future? My time here at Ferris State has given me good lead­er­ship skills that I will be able to take and apply to my job in the future. My tech­ni­cal expe­ri­ence will help me in the work place, too. My under­stand­ing of HVAC sys­tems will help with writ­ing my build­ing automa­tion pro­grams for my new job in May.

What are your plans after grad­u­a­tion? After grad­u­a­tion I will imme­di­ately be dri­ving to Detroit to see my cousin get mar­ried. We both will be cel­e­brat­ing step­ping stones in life together.

What is your dream job? My dream job would be a com­poser for movies or be an inventor.

If there was one thing you wish you would have known as a fresh­man, what was it? I wish I knew that you do not want to wait to send your FAFSA forms in–the ear­lier, the bet­ter. If you wait too long you may not receive any finan­cial aid. 

What is one piece of advice you want to give to other stu­dents? Don’t stress out about life too much; every­thing always works out somehow.

Addie Brasseur
Health care sys­tems administration

Did you start in that major when you came to Ferris? No, I came here to get a degree in radi­og­ra­phy, which I com­pleted last August. This was my sec­ondary degree.

What’s your best mem­ory at Ferris State? Being in the halls. We used to have Guitar Hero par­ties all the time. It was just an amaz­ing expe­ri­ence mak­ing life­long friends.

What was your most embar­rass­ing moment at FSU?
No comment.

What was your favorite class at FSU and why? My favorite class was Biology 109 Anatomy & Physiology because we had the chance to work with a lot of inter­est­ing things in lab, such as dissecting lungs.

How do you think your expe­ri­ence from here will help you in the future? Well, the obvi­ous answer is my two degrees and all of the edu­ca­tion, but besides that I would also say the expe­ri­ences I have had in the past five years just gain­ing the abil­ity to put myself into sit­u­a­tions that I nor­mally never would have, and tak­ing the ini­tia­tive to learn new things.

What are your plans after grad­u­a­tion? After grad­u­a­tion I plan on relo­cat­ing wher­ever I can find a job, and start­ing my career.

What is your dream job? My dream job right now is to become a CT tech­nol­o­gist. Later in life I want to be a man­ager of a radi­ol­ogy depart­ment. I want that to come later so I get to expe­ri­ence what my employ­ees will go through, and it will also help me develop my own lead­er­ship style by pick­ing up cues from other managers.

If there was one thing you wish you would have known as a fresh­man, what was it? I wish I would have known that it is pos­si­ble to not have 8 a.m. classes!

What advice would you give to other stu­dents? Join RSOs and other orga­ni­za­tions because it is a great way to meet peo­ple and the net­work­ing will help you later in life.

Robert Saleski
Criminal jus­tice, minor in mil­i­tary science

Did you start in that major when you came to Ferris? Yes, I’ve been in the CJ pro­gram and ROTC all four years at Ferris.

WHAT IS YOUR BEST MEMORY AT FERRIS STATE? It’d prob­a­bly have to be just hang­ing with the peo­ple I’ve met here. I’ve had a lot of fun and crazy mem­o­ries with a lot of good friends.

What was your most embar­rass­ing moment at FSU? It would prob­a­bly have to be from sopho­more year when my phone went off in the mid­dle of class … it wouldn’t have been so bad if my phone wasn’t on full vol­ume and my ring­tone hadn’t been set to “Baby Got Back.”

What was your favorite class at Ferris? Probably ROTC, since I was with the same group of peo­ple all four years and got to know them really well.

How will the expe­ri­ences you’ve had here help you in the future? They’ll help me make bet­ter lead­er­ship deci­sions in my future career and will also help me to make bet­ter deci­sions overall.

What are you plans after grad­u­a­tion? My plans for after grad­u­a­tion are to find a job as a police offi­cer or fed­eral agent and to com­plete some of the mil­i­tary train­ing I need to com­plete, all while being a sec­ond lieu­tenant in the National Guard.

What’s your dream job? My dream job would have to be either a Special Agent for the Secret Service or the FBI.

If there is one thing you wish you would have known as a fresh­man, what is it?
I wish I would have known about some of the extracur­ric­u­lar things around campus.

What advice would you give other stu­dents? Make sure you try your best all four years and get good grades because it’ll ben­e­fit you in the future. Also, try and do things out­side of class and school because it’ll look good on resumes for future employ­ment in your career field.

Amanda Williamson
Social work 

Did you start in that major when you came to Ferris? Things got mixed up and I wanted to be in social work, but I ended up in the University College. My sec­ond semes­ter I was placed into social work. 

What’s your best mem­ory at Ferris State? I would have to say the social work pro­gram in all. We are all very close and are like a huge fam­ily. My best moment with the group would have been our trip to New York for the Social Work Day at the UN. It was an amaz­ing experience. 

What was your most embar­rass­ing moment at FSU? When I fell in the win­ter time on the ice. Ok, let’s be hon­est, that hap­pened mul­ti­ple times. 

What was your favorite class at FSU and why? Social Work 220 Methods and Theories I think this was one of my most favorite classes because we had to explore our­selves and write a self analy­sis on our­selves. We also were able to explore dif­fer­ent age groups and work with chil­dren in the classrooms. 

How do you think your expe­ri­ence from here will help you in the future? I feel every­thing I learned at Ferris State is going to help me in my career and in my per­sonal life. I feel my time here at FSU has been an expe­ri­ence I would never take back. 

What are your plans after grad­u­a­tion? My plan is to obtain a job in social work, pos­si­bly at The Department of Human Services, and then work toward my mas­ters at Grand Valley State University. 

What is your dream job? My dream job is to work at DeVos Children’s Hospital. I love work­ing with children.

If there was one thing you wish you would have known as a fresh­man, what was it? I wish I would have known how to get more actively involved from the begin­ning. During my junior and senior year, I made sev­eral dif­fer­ences in people’s lives though Social Work Association, and am now nom­i­nated for Torch Bearer awards.  

What is one piece of advice you want to give to other stu­dents? The Social Work Association brought an event to Ferris this year called “The Bullycide Project.” It was stated by Lori Thompson, the direc­tor, “To the world you are one per­son, but to one per­son you are the world.” I took that to heart. Even a smile can brighten someone’s day. 

Corey Potter
Psychology and biology

Did you start in that major when you came to Ferris? No, I did not. I orig­i­nally started with an applied biol­ogy degree.

What’s your best mem­ory at Ferris State? When I am around my staff after long break vaca­tions. The Brophy-McNerney staff is my fam­ily away from home.

What was your most embar­rass­ing moment at FSU? This past semes­ter I slipped on some ice out­side and landed in a pud­dle. Had to show up to class for an exam soaked!

What was your favorite class at FSU and why? I’ve enjoyed almost every psy­chol­ogy class I’ve taken here. But I would def­i­nitely have to go with any class I’ve had with Dr. Weaver. She is such a char­ac­ter and keeps me on my feet.

How do you think your expe­ri­ence from here will help you in the future? My job as a res­i­dent advi­sor in McNerney Hall has def­i­nitely helped me pre­pare to work with dif­fer­ent types of people.

What are your plans after grad­u­a­tion? I will be attend­ing Boston College in the fall — the school that beat Ferris out of win­ning the hockey championship.

What is your dream job? I would like to work as a sub­stance abuse coun­selor. Also one day, I would like to own a vin­tage 1920s movie theater.

If there was one thing you wish you would have known as a fresh­man, what was it? That Ferris offers CLEP test­ing in order to test out of basic classes.

What is one piece of advice you want to give to other stu­dents? Don’t always take the easy way out.

Mike Hall
Business admin­is­tra­tion and graphic design

Did you start in that major when you came to Ferris? I started in graphic design and decided it wasn’t for me; I fin­ished my associate’s degree and switched to busi­ness administration.

What’s your best mem­ory at Ferris State? Summer tub­ing on the
Muskegon River.

What was your most embar­rass­ing moment at FSU? No comment.

What was your favorite class at FSU and why? My favorite class here at Ferris State University has hon­estly been my Business 499 class because of the friend­ships I have made and the fun that I have had in that course.

How do you think your expe­ri­ence from here will help you in the future? Ferris State University has
really taught me to be a crit­i­cal thinker, and to bet­ter under­stand the way that peo­ple work so I can bet­ter man­age them.

What are your plans after grad­u­a­tion? I plan to move back to my home­town and begin my career in the man­age­ment field.

What’s your dream job? Chief oper­at­ing offi­cer at Gentex Manufacturing in Zeeland.

If there was one thing you wish you would have known as a fresh­man, what was it? There are a lot bet­ter places to live than University Parke Suites.

What is one piece of advice you want to give to other stu­dents? Work hard and play harder. n

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