{"id":4059,"date":"2017-04-28T11:35:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T15:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gcc.edu\/insider\/?p=4059"},"modified":"2017-04-28T11:35:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T15:35:02","slug":"student-spotlight-ryan-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gcc.edu\/insider\/2017\/04\/28\/student-spotlight-ryan-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Spotlight: Ryan Brothers, Computer Science and the Humanities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of May 2015, Ryan Brothers joined the same housing group as <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gcc.edu\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/03\/14212074_10210027004769686_237257880145741396_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4060 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gcc.edu\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/03\/14212074_10210027004769686_237257880145741396_n-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"14212074_10210027004769686_237257880145741396_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gcc.edu\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/03\/14212074_10210027004769686_237257880145741396_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.gcc.edu\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/03\/14212074_10210027004769686_237257880145741396_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.gcc.edu\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/03\/14212074_10210027004769686_237257880145741396_n.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I did. We had talked maybe\u00a0twice from when he joined to May 2016. On a whim, we decided to be roommates for our senior year. Now, I can call him one of my best friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI applied to bigger schools, but at the same time, they couldn\u2019t offer me what Grove City does. The humanities core offered here has made me far more well-rounded than any other school I applied to could have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ryan is an Electrical Engineer with a concentration in Computer Science, one of five in the senior class. Ryan\u2019s passion for Computer Science brought him to Grove City, but he wanted to major in something different with the hope of giving himself a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComputer Science was something I always got. Once I learned about the EE with CompSci, I knew it was the program for me. Get it? Program?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Ryan is working with a professor on an independent study that end goal is to convert images into vectors. 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