Christopher Weyant

The background of this page depicts myself and five of my good friends collecting donations at a fundraiser I organized (with the help of some great friends) for The One Fund Boston, three days after the Boston Marathon attacks back in April 2013. 1,000 runners showed up at the Mullins Center to partcipate in a 2.62 mile run around campus, showing support and raising funds for victims. To date, this has been my proudest accomplishment. The event came together in 46 hours, and I still can't believe that we were able to pull it off.

People oftentimes ask me, "What do you want to do with your life?" Well, I'm a Sport Management major at the Isenberg School of Management (University of Massachusetts-Amherst). I work towards a lot of the things all college students in a selective field work towards, most importantly, employment.

But I work towards more than just employment. I work towards the greater good. Not only at UMass, not just for my family or my friends, but for every person I come across, I work towards everybody's well-being. Maybe that's just the way I was raised, right? I'm the son of a mother and father who taught me that if you stay humble and if you do the greatest good for the greatest amount of people, things are going to fall your way, and everybody else's way as well.

Maybe adversity played a role as well. Maybe I learned through experience, through watching my parents both undergo cancer treatments at a young age, from all the times I was subjected to all of the horrible things that can happen in the world. But that makes you appreciate the things that aren't so horrible, but are in fact, the opposite.

My passion is to work for myself, the people who I live for, the people who have lived for me, and everyone else as well. Somewhere along this road I'm on, with my Sport Management major, and with all the adversity that I've overcome, I'm confident that I can be the person I want to be. I can be that person who is respected for respecting others, and for his words, as well as his actions. I can be the person that makes a difference in my life, and others as well.

This is what I work towards. This is what I live for.