Katelyn

Brown

Bachelor of Education
Belle River, ON

Lakehead University is truly a beautiful school. The landscape surrounding the school is absolutely gorgeous, with wildlife that comes right onto campus. The staff was genuine and sincere, and the students who go there are absolutely wonderful. There were so many times when I felt truly cared for by my professors. Jamie Gerow was my faculty advisor, and he was one of the most caring people I’ve met through my educational journey. He truly cares about his students and their wellbeing as well as their academic success.

Student life at Lakehead was also phenomenal. There were many times that the classroom became a fun atmosphere where we felt like a group of friends casually hanging out rather than a group of students and a professor in a lecture room. One such memory took place in music class. We were to get into groups, choose a song, and play this song on instruments called boom-whackers. Each group not only mastered their song, but also went so far as to dress up for that class. For example, my group played ‘Under The Sea’ from the Little Mermaid, and we dressed up as the cast from the movie, including Ariel (Jessica DeBruin), Sebastian (Julia DiGravio), Scuttle (Mary Power), Flounder (Myself), King Triton (Hootan Vani), Ursula (Amanda S), and we even had seaweed (Annalise Wendler)!!

Our class became a close-knit community within a week of meeting each other. We leaned on each other for support, studied as a team, and spent most of our free time together. Essentially, we became a family.