UWyo MagazineStudents Makes the Most of Her Opportunities

May 2015 | Vol. 16, No. 3


Wyoming student Brianne BrasherWyoming students, take notice. Brianne Brasher of Cody, Wyo., doesn’t want to hear you say you are “just” going to UW. “Wyoming is just as good as other schools,” she says. “Wyoming students have nothing to apologize about.”

Brasher has had a good opportunity to learn this for herself, as she completes her final year at UW. Thanks in part to a UWAA 2011 District 1 scholarship, she tried out several different paths, taking as many classes as time allowed. She started as an English major but found her true love was reading and writing, rather than studying literature. So she switched to communication and added three minors: marketing communication, creative writing and honors. She has applied for a slot in the very competitive graduate program in communication and journalism at UW. If she gets an assistantship, she’ll teach a public speaking course to undergrads while taking her graduate courses. If not, she still has plenty of options.

“I might have to get a big girl job,” she says with a laugh. Then she quickly sketches out some very practical possibilities. Her father, Rick Brasher, is owner/broker with Coldwell Banker Antler Reality in Cody. She says she might get a real estate license and use the video production skills she’s learned at UW to succeed in the real estate field, where so many homes are available to view through virtual tours online.

However, returning to Cody is not Brasher’s immediate goal. “Cody is not that great when you’re 22,” she says. Yet there was a time when she first arrived in Laramie that she admits made her a bit homesick. “I had never been away from home before, and the Cody community is so close knit. I went from a place where everybody knows you to a place where no one knows you.” Soon, though, she got involved in campus activities, such as academic tutoring, Cardinal Key society and Lambda Pi Eta. She also took part in a study abroad program, studying Shakespeare in London. Now she makes plans to stay in touch with her friends when the time comes to leave Laramie.

Regardless of what her immediate future holds, she plans to make the most of her UW education. “I feel like I was ‘given’ my schooling because of the scholarships. That means I have been given an opportunity, so I should give it my best, in return.”


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