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“SMC is so much better than other community colleges and—can I say this?—it’s really, really cheap to come here!”

In a competitive world, athletes are the first to push the extremes in pursuit of their goals. And for SMC student Gary Weber, sacrifice has been no stranger. “On my high school wrestling team, I dropped down to 112 pounds and wrestled at that weight for four years,” says the lanky young man who probably weighs in at a natural 155 pounds. “But all that starvation and discipline paid off in my senior year when I became league champion.”

And though he is now “giving back to my old high school” as a coach of the wrestling team, it’s another ‘league’ that he intends to join soon: the league of Big Business. “I’m a double major in Accounting and MIS, because I figure that both skills will make me competitive in the business arena,” says Gary. “I actually think computers are fun and, from what I understand, systems analysis might very well be the way for me to go. I’m sure that I’ll go all the way to an MBA,” he adds. “But how I’ll actually put it to use, I just don’t know. I’m actually just beginning to discover all the things that I can do at SMC.”

Gary states that, on the wrestling mats or in the classroom, “coaching is always important—no matter where you’re competing. And sometimes the people you’re competing against make the best coaches. So my thought is to make as many friends as I can at SMC and learn from them.”

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