What does the Ball State experience mean to students? How does it inspire students to excel? Here’s what two students have to say about immersive-style motivation, transformation, and discovery:
Jessica Lee Barnes, ’11 
- From LaPorte, Indiana
- Landscape architecture major; minoring in history and Spanish
- A winner of the 2008 Critical Language Scholarship, awarded by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs; traveled to Tunisia in the summer of 2008 for two months of intensive language instruction in Arabic
Justin Orr, ’08
- Biology and pre-dentistry major; graduated with a perfect 4.0 grade point average
- Played on the men’s volleyball team
- One of 75 students nationwide to receive the 2008 U.S. Navy Health Professions Scholarship, which provides four years of full tuition and fees, plus a living stipend and sign-on bonus, for his doctor of dental surgery program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City