{"id":5973,"date":"2024-02-07T07:30:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T15:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/?p=5973"},"modified":"2025-08-18T11:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:55:14","slug":"student-spotlight-sierra-rothlisberger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/2024\/02\/07\/student-spotlight-sierra-rothlisberger\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Spotlight: Sierra Rothlisberger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"breadcrumbs\" typeof=\"BreadcrumbList\" vocab=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/\">\r\n\t<!-- Breadcrumb NavXT 7.2.0 -->\n<span property=\"itemListElement\" typeof=\"ListItem\"><a property=\"item\" typeof=\"WebPage\" title=\"Go to Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture.\" href=\"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/\" class=\"main-home\" ><span property=\"name\">Voiland College<\/span><\/a><meta property=\"position\" content=\"1\"><\/span><span property=\"itemListElement\" typeof=\"ListItem\"><a property=\"item\" typeof=\"WebPage\" title=\"Go to Voiland College Student Success.\" href=\"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\" class=\"home\" aria-current=\"page\"><span property=\"name\">Voiland College Student Success<\/span><\/a><meta property=\"position\" content=\"2\"><\/span><\/div><header class=\"wsu-article-header \">\r\n\t<h1 class=\"wsu-article-header__title\">\r\n\t\tStudent Spotlight: <br>Sierra Rothlisberger\t<\/h1>\r\n\t\t<\/header>\r\n\n\n\n<p>What makes Washington State University&#8217;s Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture stand out from the crowd for those looking to get a degree?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We ask interior design major Sierra Rothlisberger for her thoughts on what makes WSU such a special place.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\" wsu-overlap wsu-spacing-after--xxmedium\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wsu-overlap__container\">\r\n\t\t\n<div class=\" wsu-overlap__column\">\r\n    <div class=\"wsu-overlap__column-inner\">\r\n        \n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large wsu-image--style-framed\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"792\" height=\"812\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-vcea\/uploads\/sites\/3466\/2024\/01\/headshot-792x812.jpeg\" alt=\"Sierra Rothlisberger.\" class=\"wp-image-5961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-vcea\/uploads\/sites\/3466\/2024\/01\/headshot-792x812.jpeg 792w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-vcea\/uploads\/sites\/3466\/2024\/01\/headshot-396x406.jpeg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-vcea\/uploads\/sites\/3466\/2024\/01\/headshot-768x787.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-vcea\/uploads\/sites\/3466\/2024\/01\/headshot-1499x1536.jpeg 1499w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-vcea\/uploads\/sites\/3466\/2024\/01\/headshot-1998x2048.jpeg 1998w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-vcea\/uploads\/sites\/3466\/2024\/01\/headshot-990x1015.jpeg 990w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-vcea\/uploads\/sites\/3466\/2024\/01\/headshot-1188x1218.jpeg 1188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n    <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n<div class=\" wsu-overlap__column  wsu-overlap--surface-column wsu-overlap--overlap-xmedium\">\r\n    <div class=\"wsu-overlap__column-inner\">\r\n        \n\n<div style=\"height:70px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer wsu-hide--tablet\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-container wsu-dropshadow--medium wsu-color-background--white wsu-spacing-top--xmedium wsu-spacing-padding-right--xmedium wsu-spacing-padding-left--xmedium wsu-spacing-bottom--sxxsmall\" >\r\n    \n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Major:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sdc.wsu.edu\/interior-design\/interior-design-masters\/\">Interior Design Graduate program<\/a>, minor in <a href=\"https:\/\/sdc.wsu.edu\/construction-management\/construction-management-minor\/\">Construction Management<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Expected Date of Graduation:<\/strong> May 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hometown:<\/strong> Chelan, WA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Activities:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/sdc.wsu.edu\/student-clubs\/asid\/\">ASID<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/idcl.wsu.edu\">Integrated Design + Construction Laboratory<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Scholarships:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/financialaid.wsu.edu\/regents-scholars-program\/\">Regents Scholarship<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/president.wsu.edu\/honor-roll\/\">Presidents Honor Roll<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\n\t<\/div> \r\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading  wsu-font-size--large\">Why did you choose interior design as your major?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In high school, my favorite\/best subjects were math, art, and psychology, and I wanted to be in a field where I could somehow incorporate all three. I love interior design because it has a great balance of rules and codes to follow, creativity, and a human connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading  wsu-font-size--large\">What made you decide to attend WSU?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Hands down, the School of Design and Construction. In high school, I toured their studio spaces and absolutely fell in love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I knew I needed a program that would challenge me and set me up for post-graduation success, and that\u2019s what the programs here do. Not only that, but you get to do it in such a supportive community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading  wsu-font-size--large\">What have you learned in your major, or experienced in your classes or your activities during your time at WSU, that will help you most in your future?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my favorite parts about the design disciplines is how inter-connected they are. You can\u2019t do architecture without the construction managers, who can\u2019t do it without the landscape architects, and so on. It gives you a chance to dabble in everything and make many more connections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Rothlisberger is an interior design major graduating in May 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1120,"featured_media":5961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[570],"tags":[601],"wsuwp_university_location":[332],"wsuwp_university_org":[500,443],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5973"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9107,"href":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5973\/revisions\/9107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5973"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=5973"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=5973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}