Get to Know Alahaje
Background
Senior year of high school, as I was looking at all the schools, I wanted to go somewhere far enough away, but not too far. If I need my parents or if they need me, they are only an hour away. My parents, like a lot of international parents, wanted their children to go into the medical field. They also instilled in me that I was going to be a doctor or nurse. I always said, “Ok, I’m going to do what my parents say.” That’s the good thing about college. Your freshman year, you’re experimenting with what you want to do—you get the independence. I thought to myself when I started those classes, it wasn’t something I enjoyed. When I talked to my friend who said his major was sport and recreation administration, I thought “Wait, we have that degree? Sports are my life and where I’m happiest.”