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Music and engineering brought Brenda Escobeda to Moraine Valley. “I was involved in the college’s community band during my senior year of high school and I really liked it,” she says. Some of her fellow band members suggested she consider Moraine Valley, so she started looking into all the programs available. “Once I found the Engineering Pathways Program, it just kind of clicked.”

David Hull has a long background serving in the military–both in the navy and in the army, where he served as a combat medic and decided to pursue nursing as his next career.

I like numbers and loved accounting in high school,” says Andrea Godinez. “So when I had to make a career change, I asked myself ‘What am I good at?’”

“I thought it would be a good way to get some gen eds out of the way,” says Nick Nunez of his decision to take summer classes at Moraine Valley. As a biology major at Indiana University Bloomington with plans to go on to medical school, getting ahead on classes and saving money was important to him.

Denise Berry says she’s a very nurturing person, so it made sense to her to choose nursing as a profession.

Now that John Kladis has taken the reigns as president of Phi Theta Kappa for the state of Illinois, the first to serve in this capacity, he has a few goals he’s eyeing for his tenure—the main one being to help spur the organization’s growth.