Well, honestly attending MATC was never in my plans when I was deciding on a college to attend. My dream was to go to a nice 4-year university to obtain my Bachelor's, get a nice job & then happily ever after. It started off that way, I began my first year of college at UW-Milwaukee in fall of '13, same year I graduated high school. Even though my home is literally less than 15 minutes away from the campus by car, maybe even 10 if I'm breaking the law to get there, I just had to get the full college experience which means living on campus! I did. Things started off fine, then slowly I began to not focus on school work and not to attend class. That lack of guidance from a parent had me going down a very dark road. I ended up getting kicked out of school, for reasons that I won't discuss at this moment, after the fall semester.
At that point it was too late for me to register for another college to try and do a spring semester somewhere else, so I had to deal with not being in school for the whole semester. That hurted me a lot more than I thought it would. I go on my social networks and see all my friends prospering, and I was just sitting. I was looking for a new school to attend for the following fall semester, when I had a talk with my cousin which is a professor at MATC! She talked to me about all the great programs that they offered from 2-year degrees to technical diplomas. In the future I want to eventually obtain a Bachelor's so I thought a 2-year Associates' degree program was the way to go, and MATC so happened offered what I wanted to study! IT Networking!
So, she helped me get all signed up and registered for school, helped me put together a schedule and here I am! I'm actually enjoying the school a lot more than I thought I would! Also to try and make up a little for the whole year I wasted, I took a couple classes this past summer there and earned myself 6 credits. :) And I did very well in those courses; I plan to continue the streak through my whole time here and maybe transfer out of state to a university to finish up. It feels good to be back on track, and I look forward to an exciting two years here at MATC!
