Sense of community
Jason Hudson has a succinct description of the campus community at Bluffton. “It feels like a small group of friends, but it’s a big, small group of friends,” says the senior from Troy, Ohio.
Hudson has played soccer and worked in Marbeck Center and the Technology Center during his college years. He has also gotten to know people at the weekly, Thursday chapel service and has become involved in the university’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Making friends and getting involved, not surprisingly, are among his suggestions to potential Bluffton students. “Make your time here worthwhile,” he says.
Faculty a good fit
His comfort on campus extends to faculty, including those in chemistry and physics—his dual majors. “They’re willing to work with you” and take time to answer questions, whether in or out of class, he says. The prospect of that more personal atmosphere, in small classes and departments, helped draw him to the university, adds Hudson, a mathematics minor whose mother and aunt are Bluffton graduates as well.
Staying with science
“I was always fascinated with why things do what they do,” he says, explaining his interest in science, and he plans to remain in that arena, preferably in the medical field. After graduating next May, he’s considering graduate school to pursue physical chemistry or medical physics, which includes study of such areas as radiation oncology and medical imaging in general. To gain laboratory experience, a job in an industrial lab is also a possibility, Hudson says, but ultimately, “I want to use what I’ve learned to help people.”
