Meet Taylor!

I got the opportunity to sit down with Taylor Urban, a senior from UNCG to talk about her experience in higher education. Taylor, a social work major pursuing a school social work licensure while minoring in American Sign Language, political science, and human science and development studies all while pursuing full university honors has a full enough plate with academics, but is dedicated to also being involved with the school, having served in SGA, being a peer health educator with Spartan Well-Being, and is currently serving as a Spartan Guide Captain, a mentor for first-year members of the Lloyd International Honors College, on the College Panhellenic Council, and is an active member in her sorority, Tri Sigma. All of this to say, Taylor is involved in the campus, to say the least. 

When asked what led her to become so involved with the university, Taylor shared with me her high-school experience which left a lot to be desired when it came to involvement. During her first semester, her father passed, which resulted in her going home every weekend to be with her family. While she said that’s where she needed to be, she noticed all her friends got closer without her as she couldn’t be there. She knew she needed to find a community, so she pursued the things she was interested in and liked to do to find her way through university. 

One thing that Taylor wants students looking into higher education and deciding if it’s for them or not, is to know is it’s not always the right decision, and that’s okay! If you’re on the fence or want to try out before committing, try looking into community college to work towards a degree at a lower financial investment. Ultimately, college is an investment, so make sure you’re certain about it before making the investment. 

Finally, Taylor wants to make sure students know it’s okay for you to come to college not knowing exactly what they want to do. Taylor herself dual-enrolled and planned everything around a specific major, all to discover during her first class that she hated it, and ended up changing her major four times her first year. It’s okay to change it all! Find what you want to do and work towards it rather than being stuck and suffering in it.