Monday, May 4, 2015

Personal Biography

Lydia Brewer is in her junior year at Brigham Young University(BYU).  She was raised in a very transitory home, as her father was an officer in the United States Air Force.  She was homeschooled for much of her life, taught by her mother with all of her siblings.  The reason for this was that her family usually lived in places without a satisfactory school nearby.  She learned quickly, graduating high school at sixteen years old.
Because of her age, Lydia did not begin working until she was seventeen years old, and had already finished her first semester at BYU.  She started off, as most do, working in a fast food restaurant.  In this case, it was the local Sonic in Laramie, Wyoming.  It was a good start for her.  She was a key player on the Sonic team, and was up for becoming a manager.  However, she chose to return to BYU to study some more.  While completing the prerequisite courses for the Accounting Junior Core, she worked as a Resident Assistant (RA) in Helaman Halls.  This position helped her learn to relate to other people.  She was often a mediator and a counselor for the girls that she looked after.
During this time, Lydia started to feel dissatisfied with her major.  Accounting just wasn’t as interesting as she had hoped it would be.  She started to become more involved in her IS 201 class, which covered the beginnings of the Information Systems major.  She fell in love with the idea of using technology to help people and enhance their lives. She changed majors, only three months before she left to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  That made for a difficult arrival afterwards.  She had to quickly catch up to the other students that were looking to enter the program and finish all of the prerequisite courses within the first six months of returning.

Currently, Lydia is working as a Platform Engineer for the Office of Information Technology at BYU.  She is preparing her application for the Information Systems Junior Core and learning as much as she can about technology.  She hopes to earn a degree and begin work in her new favorite field.

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