My YDEV Story

After I graduated from CCRI in 2015 I transferred here to RIC as a Secondary English Education major. At the time, I had no thought of changing my major to YDEV, I did not even know what YDEV was. One day during my Educational Psychology class, a guest speaker came in and talked about the YDEV program - along with a few other things. I found the YDEV program to be interesting and definitely something to look into. After that class I put looking at YDEV aside and continued to focus on my classes and life.

Let's fast forward to late February of 2016. My second semester at RIC and it was horrible. I was doing awful in all of my English courses (I was taking three 300 courses) and I was extremely stressed out and had no motivation to do anything. These classes were putting my health at risk and I was not in a good mental state. One night I was going through my work from the past semester to store it away in case I ever needed it and I stumbled upon the YDEV handouts I received in Educational Psychology. Without even thinking, the next thing I knew I was on the YDEV RIC website and doing a ton of research on what YDEV was. All I did during spring break that year was contemplate changing my major to YDEV because it sounded more interesting and a way for me to still do what I wanted, work alongside people who have the drive to help change the future starting with the youth.

The week after spring break ended I booked an appointment with my advisor at the time and told her I want to switch my major and that is where she put me in contact with Corrine. By the first week of April I was no longer a Secondary English Education major, I was now a YDEV major and my future seemed brighter. It was the best career decision I have ever made.