Why Dakota State?

In a recent interview with one of the top writers (Dan Wise) of the school newspaper-- Trojan Times. This same question was asked of me... "Noah, why Dakota State? Why here?" Here's hows I answered...

To be honest, it was between SDSU and DSU, I grew up in Brookings and have always taken a liking to that town. A lot of my friends were going to SDSU, and after ruling out University of Minnesota because of costs, I was almost sure I'd walk onto the SDSU football team and get something like an economics degree.

What pulled me away from this decision?

Three things:
Football
My Major
Technology

Football
Yeah I know, this is beginning to sound like a raw raw raw DSU post, but here's the deal. Former coach Gene Wockenfuss contacted me after visiting a few players from the old Bobcat 2004 football team (don't get me started). He offered two things that appealed to me: chance to play early, Scholarship. The scholarship was not a breathtaking figure, but combined with some academic "Cash Money" it was starting to look like a pretty good deal.

*Side Note* If you are a high school junior or senior and you know or are even thinking about going to college the ACT is a great tool to save you a lot of money. I received the Champion scholarship for getting a 24 on the ACT. I didn't get it on my first try, but it was definitely worth taking over. Here's a little story problem for those of you interested:

24 on ACT = Champions Scholarship (click here for more info) = $1000/year for 4 years = $4000 (yeah I passed calc too)

ALTERNATIVE

--"Good Paying" $10 per hour job,
--Total= $4000
--Hours = X

$4000=10 * X
$4000/10=X
OK....carry the one....x/y intercept hyper graphed into point slope formula...
X=400 hours

So, I definitely didn't spend 400 hours taking the ACT. Matter of fact, I spent about 8.
4000/8=......500...

do you know anyone who would accept a job for $500 dollars an hour?

OK...my bad on the getting sidetracked *SIDE NOTE OVER*

My Major
SDSU didn't have a true business major. I wanted business management. If I'm correct they just had economics.

Technology
The tuition costs were similar whether I went to SDSU or DSU. So basically, it would have cost me an extra thousand dollars to buy a good laptop at SDSU, while my Tablet PC was included in the tuition cost at DSU.