Budy says campus offers personal touch
By JAXY CLOUD
Student Reporter
Danielle Budy graduated with a masters in mathematics from Northwestern Oklahoma State University and taught at Waynoka Public School for five years. Along with teaching math, she coached softball, basketball, and physical education classes.
Q: What sold you on coming to Northwestern?
A: Well, I’m a Northwestern alum, and I’ve always lived in this area and I’m proud of our college. The fact that it provides such a hometown personalized touch, but also offers many amenities and special things that bigger colleges offer as well.”
Q: What is one of the first goals you hope to accomplish here?”
A: Teaching math is always a trying thing because so many people fear math, so I do always hope to encourage my students to take math on and to not be afraid of it and to just make it a positive experience rather than something that they just have to get through.
Q: What is your favorite class to teach and why?”
A: Probably college algebra because it is a gen-ed that everyone has to take so you get a wide variety of students in there with lots of different ability levels, lots of different backgrounds and experiences so that mixture just makes it a nice climate to take on a fun class.
Q: What is your superpower?
A: would probably say that my superpower is to make any situation into a good one and sto stay positive and just to, even when things are looking grim or negative, just to turn it around and to help people to stay positive and encouraged.
Q: What is something most people don’t know about you?”
A: I grew up on a farm, driving a tractor and a combine for most of my life. Then I married a farmer, so I continued in that process. Most people don’t realize that I’ve driven a combine and all those other big equipment.
