Balance – The Tropolitan

Student spotlight: Megan Aaron juggles new photography business with soccer season

August 15, 2018August 14, 2018 News

Taylor Walding Variety Editor In the offseason, soccer player Megan Aaron launched a photography business. She now travels around the country, capturing photos of couples in love. Before January, Aaron said she hadn’t yet found the balance to make time for her interests outside of soccer and school work. “We have a little more free time (in the spring), so I kind of took it and ran with it and got really passionate about it out of nowhere,” said Aaron, senior graphic design major and entrepreneurship minor from Sacramento, California.…

Military students find balance

August 16, 2017August 16, 2017 Trojan Living

Logan Wetzel Contributor While many students spent their summers working part-time or visiting the beach, students in the military had a much different agenda. When Lance Cpl. Jack LaBrant, freshman business marketing major from Troy, completed Marine Corps boot camp on March 31, he had two priorities on his mind: going to job school at Camp Pendleton in California and attending Troy University. “The Reserves are about balancing a civilian life and a military life,” said the Marine lance corporal reservist. “If I were active duty, this would be my…