Hi! My name is Addie and I'm a second year Wataugan from Kitty Hawk on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. For me, making the decision to come to Appalachian State proved to be quite the transition! I chose to apply to Watauga because I was interested in the close-knit community and interesting classes I have only seen offered here. The classes are small and interactive, which is hard to find in a first year class. These classes helped me get closer to my professors and build up the confidence to go talk to my other professors in significantly larger classes. Although Watauga courses can ask for a lot of work, they help students become actively concerned about various issues in the world as well as encourage them to actively seek to solve problems. Watauga isn't all work and no play, though: a good game of four square happens roughly twice a day and helps balance out all the stress. I've found an entire community of best friends and the relationships that this program has helped me build within the past year not only among my classmates, but also my professors and other faculty. These people are like family.