Mike traded his spatula at Flippin' Burger for the high-pressure world of...bagging groceries. College life wasn't exactly a walk in the park – more like a waddling drunken penguin bounding off shrubs and boulders. Despite the initial chaos, he did manage to snag "the one" who saw past his pocket protector and embraced the lovable nerd beneath.

Yearning for a break from ramen and concrete sidewalks, Mike ditched the textbooks for a hiking backpack and embarked on an "epic mountain adventure" with his friends. While it wasn't exactly scaling Everest, they did encounter some interesting wildlife – like that blue jay that landed on the pot of cooking spaghetti and brazenly plucked a meatball with its beak and flew off cackling as we stumbled across each other trying to stop it. 

Back in the classroom, Mike found inspiration from some professors while simultaneously encountering a few… shall we say, "unique" classmates. His first internship fueled his excitement to work with professionals in the field, only to discover that "adults" in the real world sometimes translate to "glorified children with better titles."