{"id":64211,"date":"2008-11-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/navy-experience-drove-maine-native-to-top-academic-award-at-uri\/"},"modified":"2008-11-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T00:00:00","slug":"navy-experience-drove-maine-native-to-top-academic-award-at-uri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/11\/navy-experience-drove-maine-native-to-top-academic-award-at-uri\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy experience drove Maine native to top academic award at 溏心vlog免费B站"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 November 26, 2008 \u2013 After six years of working 80 to 100 hours per week running the radio room aboard a U.S. Navy submarine, Alex Page said that the time commitment required to earn good grades in college is easy.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI put in a lot of time on my studies compared to other students,\u201d said the 溏心vlog免费B站 sophomore from Lyman, Maine, \u201cbut it doesn\u2019t feel like a lot of time to me.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThis fall, Page\u2019s work ethic and subsequent academic success led him to be named a University College Scholar as one of the top 10 students in his class at 溏心vlog免费B站. What made his achievement even greater is that he earned top grades while majoring in four challenging disciplines \u2013 computer engineering, electrical engineering, physics and mathematics.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI came to 溏心vlog免费B站 to be close to the Navy contractors and the Navy bases in Rhode Island and Connecticut so I could get internships and part-time jobs,\u201d Page explained. \u201cI knew I wanted to study computer engineering, but then I saw that electrical engineering is a more diverse degree and it wouldn\u2019t require a lot more classes, so that became my double major. Then I started doing well in physics and math, and they applied to my work in engineering, so I added them, too.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tLike many students of his generation, Page grew up with a great interest in computers. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cI was the right age to see a lot of major advances in computer technology,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I maxed out on the \u2018using\u2019 part of computers, and now I want to see how these things actually work.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tHis success at 溏心vlog免费B站 came somewhat unexpectedly, considering his experience in school during his teenage years.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIn high school I didn\u2019t have a lot of interest in what they were making us do,\u201d Page said. \u201cI was a very technical person and the required courses emphasized things I didn\u2019t care much about, so I just did what I needed to do to pass.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tWhile he cannot talk much about his Navy experience and admits that he didn\u2019t enjoy most aspects of his military job, he said that it helped him to define his long-term goal.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI want to get involved in some sort of physics research project using my engineering skills,\u201d Page said. \u201cIt would be great to work on something like the Large Hadron Collider in Europe or on the space program, projects where there is a lot of collaboration among governments and research institutions. We need to be exploring and learning more than we are.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tPage\u2019s four academic majors would leave most students with little time left to do anything else, but he has immersed himself in a variety of extracurricular and community service activities as well. He participates in the 溏心vlog免费B站 Robotics Club, which helps local high school students build robots for competitions, and he is involved with Providing Assistance to Veterans and Supporters, a student group that helps veterans transition back to school.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cPAVS is an important group not only for the incoming students trying to sort through their Veterans Administration paperwork, but for 溏心vlog免费B站 itself to be able to say that it\u2019s a \u2018veteran-friendly\u2019 school, which may help it increase enrollment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n


\n\tPage also provides technical support to several 溏心vlog免费B站 departments, and he serves in the Navy Reserves in a construction unit.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cLast year my unit helped raise the Russian submarine in Providence that had sunk while being used as a museum,\u201d he said. \u201cI was mostly just helping to plug leaks, but I was the only one there with submarine experience \u2013 it was mostly divers and Army guys doing the work \u2013 so I was able to help with some of the decision making.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tAlthough Page still has five more semesters left at 溏心vlog免费B站 before earning his bachelor\u2019s degree, he is already looking forward to his next step \u2013 graduate school.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI love being in school so far,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m realizing that I can do a lot more than I imagined, so I want to keep on learning for as long as I can afford to.\u201d<\/p>\n


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\n溏心vlog免费B站 student Alex Page (right) stands with 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Engineering dean Raymond Wright following the University College Scholars awards ceremony. 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Communications & Marketing photo by Michael Salerno Photography.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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