Sandra Snozzi ’18
Growing up, Sandra Snozzi ’18 lived in Belgium, Germany, Mexico, Spain and the U.S. Her father is Swiss. Her mother is Mexican. So, what language do they speak around the dinner table?
“Whichever one we start with,” she said. “We mix Spanish, German, English and sometimes French. It’s pretty crazy.”
As a first-year student, she joined the Collaboratory, the student ambassador program, the International Student Association/MuKappa, Koinonia and the Society of Women Engineers.
“I was able to settle very quickly into Messiah,” she said. “Traveling a lot has helped me adapt to being in a place by myself.”
An engineering major, she led the Intelligent Water Project for the Collaboratory, building a monitoring system inside water pumps that detects whether the pumps are working properly.
Her junior year, she recalls a week when all the deadlines collided: “Everything I was involved with piled up—the fall retreat, exams, projects due, a presentation for the Collab, another retreat I was organizing. I don’t know how much sleep I got.”
The next semester, she scaled back the extracurriculars and focused on schoolwork, while also interning at WEC International and Stanley Black and Decker.
She spent her last semester interviewing for jobs. In July, she moved to Jersey City, N.J., to work as an analyst in the technology division at Goldman Sachs in New York City.
“This is definitely my dream job,” she said, “to be able to work for a big company in the Manhattan area. This will be an amazing start of the next stage of my life.”
What’s her takeaway from Messiah? “Messiah showed me a more intimate approach to community. I moved around a lot as a child. Every three years, it was time to go. This is the largest chunk of time I’ve spent in one place. It built meaningful friendships and long-lasting memories.”