Name: Tonya
Hometown: South Bend, IN, USA
Major: Biology-Chemistry
Grad Year: 2013

Why attend MU: Quite a few of my family members were students here in the past and I am a Church of the Brethren student so I already had a great group of friends here. Being a small community makes everything great, from friendships to classes.

Favorite thing: I love that I can be involved in anything I want to be a part of. There are no cliques, no groups above the rest. We are all equals and can be who we want to be with whoever we want.

Never expected: As a freshman I got involved in the hand bell choir and now I am in charge of it. I was in one as a kid at home but I never expected it to follow me to school, let alone that I would be the one making it happen!

I found: family. We are one big family here. Friends help each other, professors care about students, and no one gets left behind.