Alex Smereczniak

I was like, all right, if I get into Duke, I'm going pre-med.

And if I get into Wake, because those were the top two I'd narrowed it down to.

Wake has a top 10 undergrad business program.

All right, if I get into Wake, I'm going business.

If I get into Duke, I'm going pre-med.

So if I didn't get waitlisted, I probably wouldn't be sitting here right now.

I want to do radiology and they're getting cooked right now.

Yeah, that'd be bad.

Reading charts.

Yeah.

My parents were like, no tattoos, no piercings.

If you do that, whatever school you get into will help financially and, um, take care of you guys.

Good move.

Um, and a few other rules and things growing up, but, um,

So I thankfully didn't have to work, but my dad was like, I worked three jobs and walked uphill both ways.

So he wanted us to have a job.

He's like, you don't need to do it, but you need to have something where you're making money for your own.

You can't do nothing.

Yeah, you can't do nothing.

And so I worked for this student-run laundry business called Wake Wash as a bag runner initially.