Please give a current update on yourself (college/graduation year, major, grad school, work/career, family, other interests, service or hobbies).
I graduated college in 2022 with a civil engineering degree and currently work as a civil engineer here in San Antonio. I got married to fellow Geneva graduate Carol Metzger in 2022 and we have a baby girl due at the beginning of June.
In what ways did your Geneva education/training prepare you for the work you are doing now?
Other than general schooling I think that Geneva prepared me to speak/present ideas to clients clearly.
Please describe the most significant value you learned from Geneva.
Christ is king. Also discipline. I had some great coaches who held me to high standards.
How would you encourage a Geneva Rhetoric School student to make the most of their Geneva years?
Don’t take yourself too seriously, you are not that important. I am not saying you don’t have value, as Jesus died for you, just not as important to most people as you might think. So I would spend as much time as you can with friends so long as you don’t procrastinate on the important decisions that need to be made, which again you might think are more important than they are. Also, if I could go back, I would read the books we had more seriously, or just read them in the first place. Now when I want to it’s harder to find the time.
Describe Geneva in one word.
I don’t know how to answer this one. School? I attended Geneva since kindergarten so even though I know it’s different, I can only imagine what other schools are like by how my friends describe them. I have no doubt that there are other great schools out there, I just know Geneva is one of them.
Please share one or two of your Geneva extracurricular activities and then contrast that with one or two of your current non-work activities.
I played sports at Geneva and now I play some disc golf and basketball occasionally. I also have continued to play some video games (which I did my senior thesis on). I think it has been good to do things with a little competition and camaraderie even though it’s not really organized after high school has ended.
What are your future career goals and how do you feel prepared for them?
I have already achieved my career goals. I make enough to support my family and give to others, it’s not a useless job, and the hours are flexible for the job so I still get to spend time with my family and friends.
How are you impacted by your work now? What is something you have learned/are learning about yourself and God’s world?
It’s just a place I go to make money and produce something somebody else can use. I need to work on making it a place where The Lord is glorified but how to make that happen in a reasonable way is something that I find difficult.
Community is very important and it is a struggle (sometimes impossible) to do the Lord’s will on your own. It’s easy to get stuck in sin with nobody telling you you’re being an idiot. Our life group has started to confess to one another how we are struggling and it has been a huge help understanding how people get stuck and how to get free.