Preferred Name: Everyone calls me A-A-Ron, but Aaron works too!

Major(s) & Minor(s): I’m not going to lie, I’ve been jumping around in the Biology field quite a bit, but I’m currently majoring in microbiology pre-medicine.

Where are you from? And why did you choose to come to KU? 

I’m from El Paso, Texas originally, but as a child we moved quite a bit and settled in Newton, Kansas. My mother wanted me to stay in state and study Engineering. KU had all of those and the distance from home made it the best fit.

Hometown: Fairway, Ks 

Majors and minor: Psychology and Strategic Communications, Spanish (minor) 

Internship title and organization: volunteer, Van Go 

Hometown: Tribune, Kansas

Majors: Finance and Economics

Internship title and organization: Research intern at the Center for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP)   

Major: B.S. biology (Molecular, Cellular and Develeopmental Biology), pre-med track

What would you tell your freshman self? I transferred to KU sophomore year and attended a community college before, but I would tell myself to get involved in campus organizations early!

What is the benefit of being in the College, studying alongside students studying sciences, arts and humanities? I think the benefit of being alongside students of so many academic majors is that you really get a sense of everything there is to offer at KU. It adds multiple perspectives on questions, and you learn to see perspectives from every angle possible.

Hometown: Westwood, KS 

Majors: Global & international studies and French, minor in economics 

Internship title and organization: Events Intern at the International Relations Council 

Recent KU film and media studies grad Cody Boston found his home and purpose at KJHK, KU's student-run radio station. As KJHK's Multimedia Director, Cody put the skills he learned in the classroom to work, pulling together the popular Thursday night show "Live @ KJHK." From booking bands, to overseeing the filming, editing and sharing of the show, to hosting as DJ Boston, Cody gained a wealth of real-world work experience, perfectly complementing his studies. These are skills and experiences that he drew upon both working as a videographer for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and during the summers of 2016 and 2017, working for Kansas City Public Television.

Majors: Women, gender and sexuality studies major and psychology, business and human sexuality minors. 

Hometown: Topeka, Kansas 

What has been your favorite class at KU? And why? I loved my WGSS 101 class. I was expecting a class of 300 people, but found my way to a room of about 20. We were students from different majors, different family backgrounds, and students from all over the world. It enhanced the class 10 fold.

Hometown: Anchorage, Alaska 

Majors: English major with German and journalism minors 

Why did you choose your majors/minors? I’ve always really enjoyed English and German, and I figured I would do the best studying what I have interests in. I decided to minor in journalism as well, because it is a good way to learn to apply what I’m learning in English. The more I learn about it, the more I like it. 

Internship title and organization:  I was an intern at a newspaper called the Ostholsteiner Anzeiger in Eutin, Germany. Eutin is a small town in Schleswig-Holstein. It is the sister city of Lawrence.

Combining classes in photography, sign language, biology & anthropology, junior McKenzie Cory takes full advantage of all the variety the College and KU has to offer. Oh, and she's interning at Topeka Zoo too, and crafting in her spare time. Busy, busy. In March 2017, we handed McKenzie the keys to our Instagram account to show us what it's like to take "a crazy variety of classes" in one week, and because we wanted to see all the cute animals at the zoo!

Here's KU from McKenzie's point of view:

Ask Insia Zufer why she studies biology, and she'll give you an answer that extends far beyond a passion for fieldwork. By exploring how and why humans, animals and even a blade of grass work, Insia discovers the connections that unite us all to each other, and to the planet. She added minors in psychology and film to gain new ways of looking at the world, and to explore her love of the arts. For this Jayhawk, the subjects she studies help shape her worldview.

Savannah Pine lives and breathes history. It's a passion that has directed her days since she arrived at KU, and she dreams of working as a professor beyond graduation. But her curiosity reaches beyond the boundaries of a history major.  Savannah approaches the past in the same way she lives in the present, seeking connections and lessons from people living, working and thinking in diverse ways. At KU, Savannah takes full advantage of all the expertise, resources and opportunities available across the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Curiosity for a wide range of classes led Savannah to add a European studies major and a minor in English.

"Take advantage of all the opportunities that you have, while you can." That's the advice of self-proclaimed "weather nerd" and aspiring broadcast meteorologist Carson Vickroy. It's a mantra that he lives by, and one that has brought him happiness and success in pursuit of his dream career. It was when he was in third grade that Carson first became fascinated by the weather. That year, he watched as Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. A year later, a tornado landed near a track-meet, and Carson's passion was cemented. He wanted to know about the science behind the weather and to learn more about forecasting.