Brady Young ’12 – About five vans full of Wabash men and myself headed to Chicago Sunday for networking meeting with about twenty different alums from the Chicago area. It was a great experience and I encourage any Wabash student to get involved early on and go to as many networking events as possible. It was great to be able to talk to different alums in different lines of work and hear their story. All of them were very helpful with advice in classes, interns, and how to prepare and get ready for interviews. Many of them offered to help with any questions we had and provided their business card to many of us. It was nice to get into a big city setting and talk with people who worked in that type of environment. After a few hours of talking to all these alums we thought the day was over, but we were in for a surprise.
We walked a few blocks back to were the vans were parked only to realize that one of our vans windows had been busted and a few things had been taken out of it. The van next to us had the lock busted out and some bags taken from it. The cops were called but we had nothing to cover the window with for the ride home and did not really want to freeze. So Adam Miller, Jake Zielinski, and myself ventured out downtown to find the Walgreen’s to get a few supplies. We found the Walgreen’s a few blocks down and a street over and went in to get a poster board and some duct tape.
We used our critical thinking skills to strategically placed the card board poster perfectly over the window and duct taped it to the van. After Adam did some amazing work with the duct tape, Jake added a few designs such as the famous WAF and a heart. Once Scott had talked to the police officer and had everything figured out it was finally time to head back to the good ol’ town of Crawfordsville. The trip was a great experience I had a lot of fun in the Big City.
