Friends Beyond the Classroom

Avigail Valencia

  • Hometown: Houston, Texas
  • Graduation Date: May 2018
  • Major: Communication Studies

Michelle Ross

  • Hometown: Austin, Texas
  • Graduation Date: May 2018
  • Major: Communication Studies

Michelle Ross and I met in Dr. Paul Witt’s Communication Theory class sophomore year. We had a semester long joke where we turn in five-foot-long, color coded exam reviews. Dr. Witt caught on and would roll them out during class to show it off to the other students. He was surprise we had the time to do it!

During the summer, we were both camp counselors for Camp Longhorn in Burnet, Texas. Most people wouldn’t say that it’s a job corresponding to our major but for communication studies it is the ultimate test. The only way to create a relationship is through the construction of communication. Everything we did at summer camp was about creating relationships, between staff members or campers.