{"id":6064,"date":"2017-05-15T16:08:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T21:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/mpress\/?p=6064"},"modified":"2018-03-09T14:25:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T20:25:36","slug":"star-ethan-michalicek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/mpress\/star-ethan-michalicek\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Star: Ethan Michalicek"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Major: Interactive Design
\nGraduation Year: 2019
\nGPA: 3.98<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ethan Michalicek\u2019s past experience with time management has come in handy during his spell at Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵAPP. That particular skill has helped him juggle school work, internships and a campus job as a writing tutor while carrying a nearly-perfect 3.98 GPA.<\/p>\n

\u201cManaging my time in college has been relatively easy so far,\u201d says Michalicek. \u201cI was homeschooled from second grade all the way through high school. Thus, time management was already a must, since I did not have a rigorous schedule set in place by a schooling system. I have always been academically-inclined, so managing high grades along with everything else was icing on the cake.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michalicek, who is majoring in Interactive Design, also had some experience in that field as he was familiar with coding, animation, photography, software and more before arriving at Maryville. <\/p>\n

\u201cEven so, Maryville\u2019s program has been immensely helpful in making me a capable designer, reinforcing what I already knew, providing me with new knowledge and techniques, and pushing me to explore more possibilities as I create,\u201d says Michalicek.<\/p>\n

Michalicek believes he will be fully prepared for the workplace when he graduates because of the innovative classroom projects students are assigned. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe professors teach from a real-world standpoint, that is to say they give us projects and problems to solve what we could actually encounter in the workplace,\u201d says Michalicek. \u201cAll of this will come to fruition when I graduate in 2019 and find a job. Thanks to this program, I am sure I will be prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with the positive learning experience, Michalicek thinks the faculty, staff and other students at Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵAPPmakes a connection with each individual student.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn effort to make a connection with each individual student \u2013 and treating them as an individual \u2013 is a top priority at Maryville,\u201d says Michalicek. \u201cOf course, it\u2019s not the school itself that brings about this friendly attitude. It\u2019s the faculty and staff. From the top down, the president of the university, included, everyone has a true interest in the students and invest themselves into teaching, growing, and bettering Maryville\u2019s student body and campus.\u201d<\/p>\n

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