 I'm Joey Meyer. I'm 23 years old. I just graduated from NWTC. I grew up in Southern Door, Wisconsin. My freshman year I had to move into Green Bay, so I went to Bayport High School. Graduated in 2014 and wanted to attend UW-Madison for mechanical engineering. I struggled with some mental health issues two years into my time at UW, so I had this pretty dramatic intense experience all happened within a month and now I had to figure out where to go from here in August. Still wanting to go back to Madison but really just not having that option anymore. I decided to come home, regroup, live with the family and they were very supportive and that's when I found NWTC and I talked to my dad who has been an instructor here in the marketing area for years. He had he had known the instructors in the mechanical design area specifically Brian Guns. We were able to set up a meeting and Brian talked to me through the entire the entire course and what I'd really be diving into. The reason I had chose mechanical design was because I had one class at UW-Madison. It was environmental and civic engineering graphics, so I was using AutoCAD and learning basic drawing techniques for the first time. Got an A in the class, it was my favorite course I had done when I was there, so finding a whole program dedicated to that field of work here at a two-year college was really really special and what I wanted to dive into right away. Overall the entire experience was pretty seamless here at NWTC. I had a lot of credits transfer in. My calculus and my basic chemistry was taken care of even one of my physics courses I had taken care of, so I was able to go to school at around 12 to 13 credits still full-time and work around 25 to 30 hours at an internship in my own field, which turned into a full-time job. In the process I was able to pay my tuition and my book fees for all four semesters at NWTC while working part-time while going here. I am going to continue at UWGB, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in the fall. I'll be going part-time while continuing to work full-time at my employer, FOTH. There I'm doing mechanical design work and I will be going for mechanical engineering technology, which will be very similar using CAD software and simulation analysis for any mechanical parts basically and the bachelor degree will just kind of build right on top of what I was able to establish these first two years at NWTC. My future is definitely starting to look up.