Set up for success in Agribusiness

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Name: Tyler Whitesel

Hometown: Wabash, IN

Major: Agribusiness and Ag Systems Management

Why did you come to Purdue: Growing up in Indiana, there’s only one place to come study agriculture

Favorite Purdue tradition: Free Den Pop Friday

Whitesel at Final 4 game

Top three influences at Purdue:

  1. Alpha Gamma Rho
  2. Grand Prix
  3. Jackie
Top five memories of your time at Purdue: 
  1. Both of my study abroad trips
  2. Going to Phoenix for the Final Four
  3. Grand Prix every year
  4. Move in week freshman year: getting to know the campus and the people on it
  5. Interning last summer with Precision Planting in Illinois

Five places you have been as a Purdue student: 

  1. Portugal
  2. Spain
  3. Italy
  4. Slovenia
  5. Austria

Whitesel abroad with friends Whitesel at internship with Precision Planting

Favorite club/organization: Ag Council

Favorite student-led event/initiative: Ag Week

Favorite Purdue event: Basketball games

Favorite place to study: ABE

Favorite thing about CoA: Even though the CoA is big, it gets a lot smaller quickly

Favorite class: ASM 104

Favorite professor: Dr. Ehlers

Class you are excited to take your senior year: Golf

Whitesel with friends in parking lot

Three biggest accomplishments at Purdue: 

  1. Picking up a second major and sticking with it
  2. Being a part of the Alpha Gamma Rho Executive Board
  3. Making the Dean’s List every semester

Something about you that is not listed on your resume: Last semester, I was a TA for AGEC 424, Financial Agribusiness Management

Future plans: Go back home to the family farm

Whitesel in front of silo

Advice for underclassmen: Classes aren’t the only place you will grow and learn. Be willing to go out on a limb and try something new

The biggest takeaway from Purdue: The relationships I made along the way; I am thankful for everyone I’ve met and everyone who has helped me through my time here.