Biosketch
- Name: Hayden Bourgeois
- College: Kennedy College of Sciences
- Major: Computer Science
- Hometown: Oxford, Massachusetts
- Favorite hobbies: Video Games, Swimming and Exercising.
- What is your favorite thing about UMass Lowell (UML)? The faculty.
- What are your future goals? To help myself and others become successful.
- What has being involved with the RHSA meant to you? It has been a pivotal part of the change from home life to college.
- Looking back, what advice would you give to yourself in your first year of college? I would tell myself to talk to the people in my classes a lot earlier.
- What advice would you give fellow students? Don’t skip classes no matter how unimportant they seem.
- Why did you choose to attend UMass Lowell? The two main reasons I came to UMass Lowell were for the excellent education and cost.
- What does it mean to you to be a first-generation college student? To me, being a first-generation college student means taking a step in advancing your family's wealth and education not only for you but for future generations as well.
- What inspires you to want to help first-generation students in the RHSA? What inspires me to help first-generation students is the feeling that I need to pay it forward. My peer leader was such a big part of me transferring from home life to college life that now I feel almost obligated to do the same for other students who might not have parents who went to college as well.