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Dan Waterbly wanted to go to college to be a doctor, but he fainted at the sight of blood. He had to pick a different field. \u201cAfter taking my first programming class, I knew exactly what I wanted to do,\u201d Dan says.<\/p>\nDan Waterbly wanted to go to college to be a doctor, but he fainted at the sight of blood. He had to pick a different field. \u201cAfter taking my first programming class, I knew exactly what I wanted to do,\u201d Dan says.<\/p>\n
Despite what he \u201cwanted to do,\u201d Dan\u2019s Eastern story mirrors that of many students who come to campus with an abundance of hopes, dreams, intelligence, motivation, and ambition \u2013\u00a0but a lack of money.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I was a student at EWU,\u201d Dan says, \u201cI had no financial aid and had to work three part-time jobs \u2013 totaling 70 hours per week \u2013 on top of going to school, to avoid the burden of a lot of student loans. I feel like I would have benefited from a scholarship, and I would have had more time to focus on scholastic achievements.\u201d<\/p>\n
Overcoming the obstacles, Dan went on to graduate from Eastern in 2005 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems. \u201cEWU is a great university,\u201d Dan says. \u201cI loved nearly all of my computer science courses and found the instructors to be very helpful and genuinely vested in their students.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy favorite computer science project at EWU was working on a banking application for Spokane Teachers Credit Union. I appreciated working with an actual organization and having a team comprised of varied disciplines. Getting that real-world experience helped me get where I am today; working as a senior software engineer with a great company in Spokane.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dan wants more computer science students to have the same experience at Eastern \u2013 without having to struggle through excessive hours at work or burdensome student loans \u2013 so donating to the EWU Computer Science Alumni Scholarship Endowment is a natural next step for him. \u201cWhen Computer Science senior lecturer, Stu Steiner, asked me to contribute to the scholarship endowment, I happily donated,\u201d Dan says.<\/p>\n
If you can relate to stories about smart, motivated students who want to enroll in computer science classes at EWU, only to find the cost is an obstacle, you can join Dan today in helping to ensure those students get the chance to pursue their dreams.<\/p>\n
\u201cTogether, you and I can build the EWU Computer Science Alumni Scholarship Endowment to award more scholarships to deserving undergraduate students in computer science or computer information systems,\u201d Dan says. \u201cThere are countless exciting, promising career opportunities for our fellow alumni who have put in the hours to obtain computer science degrees. Let\u2019s help students get there by donating today to the EWU Computer Science Alumni Scholarship Endowment.\u201d<\/p>\n
To make a gift, give now or contact Melanie Miller at 509.359.6833<\/a> or\u00a0melanie.miller@ewu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dan Waterbly wanted to go to college to be a doctor, but he fainted at the sight of blood. He had to pick a different field. \u201cAfter taking my first programming class, I knew exactly what I wanted to do,\u201d Dan says. Despite what he \u201cwanted to do,\u201d Dan\u2019s Eastern story mirrors that of many…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":706,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-160","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","stories_categories-impact-of-gifts"],"acf":{"featured_video":"","subheading":"","display_byline":false,"display_date_published":false,"Links":[{"stories_ctas_link":{"title":"Give Now","url":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/giveCS","target":"_blank"}}],"Resources":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/give\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/give\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/give\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/give\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/give\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82934,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/give\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/160\/revisions\/82934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/give\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/give\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}