Navy Veteran Offers Copious Amounts Of Praise For Reynolds Community College
Friday, July 5, 2019
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Before she became a student, Tiwana Simon was a sailor. She spent half dozen years inward the Navy circumnavigating the globe. With the exception of the Indian Ocean, she has traversed every body of body of water too walked on only nearly every continent.“My favorite places were Africa, São Tomé, too Nippon – Nippon because it was too thus peaceful. I went to Hiroshima – the site where the bombs were dropped – on a tour.”
Born inward Georgetown, Republic of Guyana too raised inward Brooklyn, New York, Simon is a second-year pupil at Reynolds. She says the college’s “Military Friendly” designation is specially appealing to her.
“As shortly equally I told everybody that I was a veteran, they knew where to signal me too inward what direction. They were very, really helpful because they know I’m an older student.”
Wherever she goes, Simon can’t halt bragging nearly Reynolds’ Parham Road campus which she says reminds her of a four-year university.
“It’s larger, it’s non all inward i building; I learn to deed around…I tin reach the axe hang out on the grass. There are too thus many clubs. I’m a fellow member of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society too a pupil ambassador. Reynolds too employed me amongst work-study too thus I operate inward the Student Success Center which is really helpful.”
The biggest argue Simon is too thus smitten amongst Reynolds is cost-savings. Like too thus many other students, she’s on a budget too Reynolds delivers value inward spades.
“I honey Reynolds for the affordability because I learn the same character pedagogy that I’d learn at a four-year academy except cheaper. And I honey Reynolds because I tin reach the axe learn a career started hither when I graduate.”
Simon says she’ll ever recommend Reynolds to whatever student, whether they’re a veteran or not, because of its affordability.
“I too noticed that a lot of the adjunct professors (here) too instruct at four-year universities too thus you’re getting the same pedagogy but to a greater extent than one-on-one fourth dimension amongst smaller classrooms.”
Simon plans to transfer to ODU after this twelvemonth too eventually earn her bachelor’s. After that, she’s looking frontwards to serving her province i time to a greater extent than – this time, equally a teacher.
Craig Butterworth
Virginia Community College System