Video Transcript
[Yaiza Rodriguez]: My name is Yaiza Rodriguez and I’m from Spain.
[Abdul Majeed Alanazi]: My name is Abdul Majeed Alanazi, I go by Majeed all the time. I’m from Saudi Arabia.
[Bethany Williford]: My name’s Bethany Williford. I was born and raised in Boise and I’m an American.
[Riccardo Torsi]: Hi, my name is Riccardo and I come from Italy.
[Ziyad Binsulaiman]: My name is Ziyad Binsulaiman, I am from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Since I was a kid, I liked each of chemistry, physics, and math and I wasn’t able to find something that combined all of them. And at the same time, I didn’t want just to be a scientist. I wanted to be an engineer who would build stuff and make science into something useful for people and materials science and engineering was the perfect major for me because it combines chemistry, physics, and math. And I’m a scientist and engineer at the same time.
[Riccardo Torsi]: I chose materials science and engineering because it’s a very multidisciplinary field. It mixes a lot of subjects such as physics, math, chemistry. I also chose materials science here at Boise State specifically because I knew there were a lot of undergraduate research possibilities and that is something that I wanted to get into, getting my hands-on in a laboratory setting.
[Bethany Williford]: Getting experience is probably the most crucial. Whether that’s with a research lab, which I learned a lot, I think working in a research lab helped better prepare me for my internships, but definitely if you can get an internship I think that’s important. It usually pays very well but it also just gives you a really good experience, good mentors to work with, and it really helps when you’re looking for a job. And for me, it turned into a job, so I was very fortunate that I had those opportunities.
[Abdul Majeed Alanazi]: I believe I became more open minded. Boise State has a diverse community. There are a lot of students from all around the world. There are students from different cultures, from different backgrounds, and I made friends with them. I believe that, since I am away from my family, I became more independent. Also, I became a hard worker due to the amount of time and effort I spent during my study of materials science and engineering.
[Ziyad Binsulaiman]: The materials science department at Boise State University is challenging. It’s not easy. If you think this program in here is just easy where you’re just gonna get your degree and then get out of school, this is not your program. If you want something good you have to work for it and you have to spend the effort and time for it and this is what the program of materials science at Boise State is built on. It’s challenging but it makes you a good engineer and a good scientist.
[Yaiza Rodriguez]: Being a Bronco in general, I think, has impacted me personally. It has brought me a family, I guess, out of my country. So now I can expand my family. I have an American family and a Spanish family, which is cool. Not everybody can say that.
[Bethany Williford]: We are making materials that matter at Boise State. Go Broncos!
[Riccardo Torsi, in Italian]: Find out about the possibilities that Boise State offers. Go Broncos!