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I felt like I needed to do something hands-on, so I went to a starter welding course. I saw the robot here and did a few welding practices, and then I kind of fell in love with welding.

The willingness to actually learn a trade - it's turning around now. I know a lot of people who went to school but aren’t working in that field. Trades is literally – you're learning exactly what you're going to be doing out in the real world when you get a job.

Starting with the two-year college just seems to be the right fit for a lot of people.

She should take every opportunity to do something that is presented to her. That is what spurred me through my career.

That changed everything.

This is not what you’re going to need in Minnesota. So I said, how can we help these students out?

You had 26 minutes to figure out why this thing won’t start. Why? What’s going on? Why won’t my hydraulics raise or lower?

There’s a lot of opportunities with welding.

I’ve been loving meeting new people every day. Everybody is so welcoming here, and it’s really cool because you can learn different points of view and perspectives of people from all over.

This school, man. I love how this school has so many different options to choose from where to study.