By Sommer Hamilton
Freshman business major Katlyn Lovett ’10 is from College Station, so she’s used to explaining to people why she came to Texas A&M instead of “going away” for school. She lives on campus in a women’s dorm on the Corps quad today, not too far from where she was raised just outside the city limits. Her answer to anyone who asks why A&M? “The community feeling, being able to say ‘howdy’ and hear it back, the Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band, the excitement for a football game or basketball game, the wildcats and random yells…I could go on forever,” she says. “All these things I had glimpsed while growing up. In my heart I knew that I was an Aggie and the only university for me was the one in my back yard.” That’s all the better for Mays and Texas A&M: this enthusiastic student has a solid backbone of service and tradition. You’ll see her working with MSC OPAS to bring Broadway hits to campus, volunteering to shout “Howdy!” during HOWDY Week, swinging with her partner in the Aggie Wranglers, and joining Bible studies as part of Navigators and Breakaway. And she’s already preparing to mentor the incoming Class of 2011 as part of Mays’ learning communities.
From top to bottom: Lovett throws her clothes in a dryer on campus; posts a note on a board at the MSC OPAS cubicle inside the MSC; meets Reveille with her handler from Corps Mascot Company E-2; and picks up sodas and snacks at H-E-B.
