<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/alumni-spotlight-darius-thomas.php" dsn="blogs"><pubDate>09/30/2020</pubDate><title>Alumni Spotlight: Darius Thomas</title><description>I honestly did not know anything about Clayton State. I learned about this wonderful institution because of a high school classmate who was interested in nursing program. </description><introparagraph><p><strong>Thanks for speaking with us. For my first question, I’d like to ask you, why did you choose to attend Clayton State?</strong></p>
<p>I honestly did not know anything about Clayton State. I learned about this wonderful institution because of a high school classmate who was interested in nursing program. I applied to Clayton State and Columbus State. I was accepted into both institutions. I choose Clayton State because I attended the orientation program, and felt welcomed from that experience. During the program, the orientation leaders were helpful and friendly, I enjoyed watching the skit and hearing the chats from the orientation leaders. I left the orientation with a class schedule and I was sold at that point. Unfortunately, my high school classmate did not attend but I wanted to still move forward with attending because it was not too far but close enough from my hometown of Macon, Georgia, and because I did not have to stay in traditional dorms.</p></introparagraph><image><img src="/alumni/images/darius-thomas-spotlight.jpg" alt="Darius Thomas"/></image><tags><tag>alumni</tag><tag>alumni-spotlight</tag></tags></item>