Saginaw Valley State University

Throughout my education, I may have not encountered serious mental or physical setbacks, but I did have to endure myself. I was the biggest challenge in my high school and middle school career, and it was a hard challenge to overcome. I believe that I am still overcoming myself. Now, you may be asking yourself how I could be the greatest challenge to myself. Wasn’t there something else? No, it was simply myself. I have set immense standards in order to satisfy my main goal: having a 4.0. It was…

sad all the time and wish I would have been able to learn from Frankl at that point. However, I made it out of the rut and began to focus on myself. I made school a priority and worked hard to keep up my grades. I even dual enrolled at Saginaw Valley State University during the first semester of my senior year. By focusing on myself and school, I was able to graduate as Salutatorian of my graduating class and go on to receive the Centralis Gold Scholarship. I have never doubted my purpose…

There are many different mixes of race, religion, ethnicities, and cultures in the world. Now more than ever, those mixtures are mingled together in almost every part of the world. The world is an amazing place for people to travel and expand their experiences in vast places that helps us to expand our knowledge about one another. In this great mixing pot, we call Earth, is also a great combination of diversity. What is diversity though? According to the Webster Dictionary, diversity can be…

He was taking classes and not really sure what he wanted to do for a lifelong career. He attended Baker College for about a year. He then transferred to Saginaw Valley State University and started taking criminal justice classes. He decided that becoming a police officer is what he wanted to do in life because he enjoyed it when he was in the Navy. He then transferred to Oakland Community College and received an associate…

Drosophila melanogaster: Inheritance Pattern Experiment Kaitlyn Grifka Saginaw Valley State University Abstract The purpose of this experiment was to study a population of Drosophila melanogaster, or more commonly known as the fruit fly. Our main goal was to determine if our flies displayed an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern or an X-linked recessive pattern based on the two different mutations that were existing in the population. Those mutations include having vestigial wings, sepia…