{"id":1572,"date":"2018-09-10T10:37:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T15:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2018-09-18T20:06:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T01:06:57","slug":"student-spotlight-kyle-kommes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/2018\/09\/10\/student-spotlight-kyle-kommes\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Spotlight: Kyle Kommes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kyle Kommes is a senior at Morningside College from Le Mars, Iowa, with many passions, especially accounting and sports. He said Morningside has been the perfect place to pursue his passions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I visited a university, I felt like I was only a number,\u201d he said. \u201cI knew I was much more than that, and Morningside made me feel unique. Everyone on campus knows each other by name. Everyone who I have met has been extremely friendly, and the faculty and staff at Morningside truly care about each student succeeding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kommes is a public accounting major with minors in sports management and religious studies. He said he chose Morningside because of the ability to be involved in so many activities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to go to a college that had a bowling program,\u201d Kommes said. \u201cI also was interested in being a student coach and a choir member. Being able to do all the things that I dreamed of doing in high school is the reason that I chose to attend Morningside.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kommes is a very active student who takes every opportunity to get involved. Currently, he is the president of Omicron Delta Kappa, a leadership honor society; a member of the men\u2019s bowling team; a student assistant coach for the men\u2019s basketball team; treasurer of the Morningside College Choir; the accounting club\u2019s social media executive; and an accounting department peer mentor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am involved in a ton at Morningside, and the best part about all the groups that I am involved in is how supportive they are of me being involved in other activities,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are all willing to let me schedule enough time to make an impact on all of my groups and are allowing me to be this heavily involved.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since public accounting is a five-year degree, Kommes will graduate in May of 2020. After graduation, he plans to work at an accounting firm in either Le Mars or Sioux City and would like to become a certified public accountant. He also would like to coach high school sports.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am truly thankful and blessed that I chose to attend Morningside,\u201d he said. \u201cEverything I have experienced here will be a great story to tell my friends and family later on in my life. I would recommend Morningside to anyone who wants to feel welcome and involved.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kyle Kommes is a senior at Morningside College from Le Mars, Iowa, with many passions, especially accounting and sports. He said Morningside has been the perfect place to pursue his passions. \u201cWhen I visited a university, I felt like I was only a number,\u201d he said. \u201cI knew I was much more than that, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1005,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52909],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}