When Matthew Miller was eight years old, he was given his first camera. Now as a student at Bridgewater College, he is majoring in art and his favorite medium is photography, having traded in his automatic Kodak for a Nikon D60 SLR.

Through classes, programs and convocations, BC is teaching Travis that he can be a great person in all aspects of his life. He says his major courses are providing him an enormous amount of information that will help him succeed in his future endeavors in the health and exercise science field.

A mathematics major, Tiffany Comer, wanted small classes with one-on-one attention and she found that at Bridgewater College.

Justin Dolph enjoys a mental challenge. Two of his favorite classes, Set Theory & Symbolic Logic and Linear Algebra, have challenged him to think analytically and critically.

Caroleigh Newman's financial situation did not permit her to attend her top choices of colleges. Encouraged by her father to visit Bridgewater College, she found a friendly atmosphere, good student to professor ratio and a beautiful, close-knit campus. With a good financial aid package offered by BC, the decision was made.

Excellence - in academics as well as in the sports arena - is what caught the attention of Ben Manis. Impressed by the quality of the campus and the construction of new buildings, Ben says he felt like Bridgewater College was alive and growing.

As a chemistry major at Bridgewater College, she has lots of options available to her upon graduation...Emily says that the chemistry professors are very helpful - even taking time after class to explain material.

Katie Cummings has many passions - academics, religion and athletics. Bridgewater College provides an opportunity for her to be involved in all of them.

One hundred percent sure - Hannah Guisewite was so convinced that Bridgewater College was where she wanted to get her college education that she did not apply anywhere else.

James Clark's ambition is to parlay an English major with a minor in mathematics into a law career. Gaining critical thinking skills from math along with grammar and writing skills from English, he aims to stand out from other law school applicants.

Arriving at Bridgewater College, Joseph Durham's goal was to go to class, get good grades, graduate and get a job. He soon realized that college is about more than just grades and degrees - it is a place to develop important social skills and have interaction with a diverse group of people - skills that will be valuable in his personal and professional life.

On Katie's first visit to campus, she knew BC was the right place for her when someone pointed out the book bags left unattended outside the dining hall while students were eating lunch - the same way they did at her high school.

As a commuter student, Risa Heatwole looks to alternative ways to develop the intense relationship-building opportunities that come naturally with living on campus. As a result, theater and choir became the channels through which she met people and built her Bridgewater family.

At Bridgewater, Tim is majoring in communication studies with a minor in philosophy and religion. The communication studies major offers excellent courses in relating to a wide variety of people, which is important for a social career such as the ministry.

For Tina Lowe, it was never “if” she came to Bridgewater College, but “when.” As a high-school student, Tina would attend the Church of the Brethren Interdistrict Youth Roundtable held at BC. She says walking on campus gave her an indescribable feeling of comfort and she knew BC was where she belonged and wanted to be.

As a computer science major at Bridgewater College, Tyler is learning the basics of what it takes to create video games. Tyler says that BC is not only preparing him for the computer industry by teaching programming languages, but also the methods to learn new languages as they come along in the future.

English Professor Dr. Catherine Elick likes to say “I became an English major against my will.” Two of her three sisters had majored in English and she was determined not to follow in their footsteps.

As an All-American swimmer at Hope College in Holland, Mich., Dr. Lori Gano-Overway was motivated by a coach who employed the use of psychological skills.

Some years ago, a Bridgewater College volleyball player had t-shirts made of “The Three Faces of Coach Heishman.” The three faces were sad, happy and mad. All three showed the same picture — of a smiling Mary Frances Heishman.

When she was a junior in college at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Dr. Melanie K. Laliker did what a lot of students do. She “floundered” about what to major in and what to do with her life.

Drawn to interesting metal from old machinery, Hough gravitates to circles and curves which he welds into large steel sculptures. Accumulating toys and ceramic insulators, he has created enlarged versions out of clay and stacked them into totem-like sculptures.

As a 10-year-old boy, Dr. Mwizenge Tembo was attending geography class one morning in rural Zambia when his teacher walked in and said, “Class, you know that right now it is bright and early here at our school. Do you know that in Japan right now it is midnight and people are fast asleep?” That statement fired up Tembo's curiosity, fascination and inspiration to learn. As a professor, he desires to bring moments like that to his students.

Dr. Philip Spickler jokes that he was the kid who didn't play with toys because he always took them apart. He liked learning how toys were built and how they functioned, and even today, he enjoys learning how things work.

Don't be surprised to enter Professor Steve Watson's classroom and be met by Plato, Aristotle, René Descartes or John Locke. To make his teaching come alive, Watson has appeared in wigs, togas and various outfits to "be" the philosopher he is teaching at the time.