Melissa Gheorghiu is a non-traditional college student, meaning that she began her collegiate career well after graduating from high school in 2000. Missy, as she is known, was always good with numbers, and she decided to try taking classes at GRCC after some encouragement from a friend. There were uncertainties at first: How would she learn to use all the technology that had developed in her time off? How would she continue raising her three kids while juggling coursework? With determination, persistence, and help from the honors program, Missy overcame those obstacles and has already begun to apply her studies to growing her own small business.