Alumni Tale: Charlie Smith ’10

1 year out of college I was just starting my first job as an Engineer.  I took an entire year off after graduation to travel and work for the ski patrol at Okemo Mountain in Vermont.

What were you doing 5 years out of college?

5 years out of college I was still working the same engineering job for Woodard & Curran in Bangor, ME and was studying to take the professional engineer exam.

Currently I am working for a small engineering firm, Madison Engineering in Bozeman, MT, while living in my tiny house.

My international experience is limited to a 3 week trip to Tanzania where I climbed Mt. Kilamanjaro and traveling to all the eastern provinces of Canada including a week long motorcycle trip across the Trans-Labrador highway to Newfoundland.

Although I didn’t have any experience abroad while at UNH, I was able to take advantage of the National Student Exchange program and spent a semester of my junior year studying at California State University at Chico. I can not recommend the NSE program enough. It is a great opportunity to experience another university and part of the country.

I believe in UNH because of the extracurricular opportunities that were made available to me, and are available to all students, from NSE, to being a RA, to intramural sports, and all the various clubs. I believe these provide just as much, if not more, opportunity to grow and learn than your core classes do.