Howdy,
my name is Campbell Fletcher. I was born in College Station, TX on June 3,
1993. As a young child, my family moved
all over the state of Texas as a result of my dad’s job; therefore, I have
lived in too many towns to really call one “home.” My dad works for HEB Grocery
Company as an upper level manager, and my mother has been a teacher for the past
23 years. She currently teaches kindergarten. I have two siblings. I have an
older brother named Michael who is 26. He was my roommate during my freshman
and sophomore years at Texas A&M. I
could not have asked for anyone better to live with. I also have a 17 year old
sister, Emily, who just started her senior year of high school, where she is a
varsity cheerleader and volleyball player.
My sister and I rarely got along when we were younger, but all of that
changed when we were teenagers. Three
years ago, when I was a senior in high school and she was a freshman, I was
driving her to a doctor’s appointment about 45 minutes from our house. When we were about 15 minutes from our
destination, I fell asleep at the wheel and wrecked my mom’s minivan on the
highway. No one was injured, thank goodness, but I was very hard on myself,
because I ran the car into a traffic barrier on her side. The accident was unfortunate, but it did draw
me and my sister closer together.
When I am not busy wrecking my
parents’ vehicles (yes, I also back into my dad’s brand new special edition
MINI Cooper that he had less than three months), I enjoy researching, looking
at, racing, and all other aspects of vehicles in general. I am a University
Studies, Business major. As soon as I graduate school, I hope to get a job
somewhere (anywhere) within the auto industry. I have been obsessed with cars
since I was in 6th grade, and it is my lifelong dream to be the test
driver for the Ford Mustang.
The University Studies degree plan
requires you to have two concentrations (minors). My first concentration is geography. I chose
this because it comes naturally to me, and I really enjoy learning about it.
The summer between my junior and senior year of high school, I went on a trip
as part of a student ambassador program for People to People. I spent 10 days
in New Zealand and 7 days in Australia, and traveled all over the continent. My
travels in Australia and New Zealand really got me interested in geography,
because of the vast variety of landscapes. My second concentration is
psychology. I never thought that psychology would have been something that I
would be interested in until I took Psychology 107 with Professor Smith. I enjoyed the class so much that I decided to
stick with it! Psychology studies the way that people think, which I think, is
something very important in the business world. I believe that knowledge in this
field will be invaluable when dealing with unhappy coworkers, or customers
trying to make decisions about automobile purchases.
I look forward to the concepts that
I will learn in organizational psychology, specifically because I feel they
will be very useful for future employment in the field that I have chosen. I
believe that everyone who plans on getting a job should take this class,
because it can provide insight and make it easier to deal with problems in the
workplace.
