Most college students begin to find what career paths are best suited for them later in their college careers.

Brien Conrad is no exception. The junior exercise science major from Coshocton, Ohio has begun to filter out his options going forward in selecting a career and figuring out a plan to pursue that career.

“I want to do personal training,” Conrad said. “Corporate wellness – which would be taking care of the larger corporations and being a personal trainer for them.”

Conrad, 21, even has an idea of where he wants to be in the near future.

“My goal is to be in Hawaii in the next five years,” Conrad said.

His vision of where he sees himself in a few years may sound dreamy, but he has valuable networking programming skills that he thinks will help him get to the Hawaiian Islands.

Conrad is also taking leadership on campus within Greek life. He was one of the very first people that Kappa Sigma recruited to becoming a founding father of a chapter in Ashland.

Conrad sees the fraternity as a great opportunity to serve others as well as bolster his own resume.

“I chose to be a member here at Ashland Univeristy because I wanted to improve the community outreach at Ashland,” Conrad said. “That’s what Kappa Sigma wants to do is start giving back to the general community around us and we want to bring a lot of events.”

New fraternities that evolve on college campuses are known as colonies. Kappa Sigma at AU is a colony at this moment with 33 members.

Conrad said that before the new Ashland fraternity could be considered a full chapter instead of just a colony, members of the fraternity need to complete a list of items. One of those items is 10 hours of community service.

Another part of the fraternity that really caught Conrad’s eye was the networking opportunity that the fraternity could offer him.

Conrad said that Kappa Sigma has one of the largest alumni bases in the United States and that could help him find a job that he wants, even in Hawaii.

“It’s who you know that’s going to get you that job,” Conrad said. “That’s what most careers are going to be based on from here on out. The people may not know you as a person but because you were a part of this group, they know what you are expected to be.”

The fraternity held elections recently, and Conrad was selected as the Deputy Grand Master, a position that he did not think he’d ever be in because he didn’t consider himself as a viable candidate to join a fraternity.

“I was kind of hesitant at first because I’m a junior and I came here and I obviously didn’t think about becoming involved in Greek Life,” Conrad said. “It’s been a hit and been a blast.”