Jim Kiser College of Forestry

Jesse Narog Student | College of Forestry

“If it looks hard, then I have to do it.”

Jesse Narog does not back down from a challenge. It just makes him more determined.

As proof, he earned an associate’s degree before graduating high school. He’s been sent overseas as a Marine Corps reservist. And he’s had to go back and forth between OSU and a community college in Washington while pursuing his forest engineering degree.

Jim Kiser is equally persistent. He’s researched classes online and in Washington to help Narog continue making progress until he returns to OSU in the fall of 2009. To Kiser, that’s just part of the job.

“If a student’s going to put the effort forward, I’m going to put that effort forward too,” Kiser says.


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