Jack Brandon
When he compared the nation's top engineering programs against one another, freshman Jack Brandon was also searching for the most bang for his buck. Brandon found what he was looking for at NC State's College of Engineering, on a large campus that offered a number of extracurricular activities.
"NC State was highly-ranked, right up there with Duke, MIT, Georgia Tech and others that would have cost three times as much for me to attend," he said. "At the end, I didn’t apply elsewhere – I kind of put all my eggs in one basket and hoped for the best."
Brandon unofficially joined the Wolfpack family this summer at orientation as well as at a pair of weeklong engineering camps, where he got to know some of him soon-to-be classmates. A high achiever in high school, Brandon was selected to blog throughout the upcoming academic year on the admissions home page, sharing his experiences with potential future students.
"I’m really excited to try a lot of things that may or may not be related to my engineering coursework and meet people who are interested in the same types of things," he said. "It's important to me to get a good education, but have a life as well, and that's what NC State offers its students – it's the reason I’m here."
From my Blog
The Cure!
So I haven’t been posting lately, but there is a good reason. I got a hardcore bacterial infection and did not have the ability to do anything other than eat jello and pudding…ahhh pudding. This unfortunate occurrence lead me to something else I can tell y’all about..the Student Health Center.
State has an excellent student health [...]
