 My name is Tristan Portwood. I am a senior from Flemish in Alabama and I'm majoring in nursing. What I like most about UA is all the opportunities they have for us to get involved and once you get involved and start making these friends and families you start finding your community within this huge community and it's just a great thing. I think what surprised me most about UA was how it just seemed so big when I first got here and then after getting involved with so much it was like I was walking from class at first I didn't see anyone that I knew and now it's like I can't walk from building building without running into someone that I know. Sometimes I have to throw my headphones because I'm like I don't want to talk right now so the nursing school here is really competitive. It was challenging and for me I like challenges. I definitely would like to become a pediatric nurse and eventually get my nurse practitioner degree. My biggest advice to incoming freshmen or transfers would be to get involved. We have almost 600 organizations here and it's steadily growing and so there's something here for everyone and once you get involved with an organization or a club or something you find people that have like minds as you do you just kind of become this like family that you never had.