Ryan Koch

Ryan works for Bowman Consulting in Virginia.

What is your favorite memory from your time at WVU Tech?

The many road trips with the soccer team and going to the ASCE conventions.

What did you enjoy most about the civil engineering program?

Having great class sizes and professor relations, really helped me learn and feel important.

How did Tech prepare you for the future?

Setting me up with many different skills, learning important things such as good communication and time management.

Which person at Tech has had the biggest impact on your college experience? How has that person helped you?

For me it wasn’t one person specifically, it was more of everyone around me. The teammates I had on the team bringing laughs and fun, to the classmates in engineering that helped me study for classes and exams. Without any of them I think my experience would have been drastically different.

As a soon-to-be graduate, what is your best advice for incoming students?

Don’t be afraid to leave your comfort zone, push yourself to join that club that seems fun or skip the study session to socialize. For me college was a lot more about the people I met and the relationships I have with them, than the classes where I got an A.

What will you miss most about Tech?

Definite the closeness of everyone, after moving away and working it’s hard not being able to walk down the hall in the dorms and see my mates, it’s hard not grabbing lunch after class with them. I’m definitely missing the social aspect of how everyone on campus was friends and knew each other.