Sophomore, Cassie McDermott, is a biology major and volleyball player at Morningside University. She is all the way from a small-town called Elizabeth in Colorado. Distance was not a problem in McDermott’s decision making when choosing Morningside, actually she intended to attend a college somewhere further away from home. According to McDermott living further away from home will let her experience something different and have a separate life between family and college.

With a bachelor of science from Morningside University McDermott’s goal is to become a physical therapist. The reason behind this goal is due to her own experience at a physical therapist where she got inspired by the whole environment.

In McDermott’s experience, attending Morningside has both lived up to her expectations and not. Despite wanting to live far away from home, she found it to be a bit more challenging to adjust to college than expected, due to the fact that attending college is a whole different lifestyle where teenagers (often for the first time) get to experience more responsibility and have to figure out life individually. Now as a sophomore McDermott has gotten used to the college-lifestyle and like it very much, but she does still not adore the humidity of Sioux City…