[[File:Alicen.png|thumb|Alicen.png]] Alicen Long is a University Innovation Fellow and an undergraduate studying Marketing and Psychology at Tennessee Technological University (TTU). Alicen moved from Pennsylvania to Tennessee halfway through her junior year of high school. Moving to Tennessee opened up a lot of opportunities for her- one being a great value on higher education. She has been involved in many organizations and on-campus activities throughout her college career. Alicen currently is serving as head seat of the Business College for the Student Government Association, is an active member of Alpha Delta Pi, a member of the Marketing Club, and works as an intern on campus for a psychology NSF project. Alicen also works at Electronic Express; to say she keeps herself busy is an understatement.<br/>
Alicen has grown to become very passionate about the field of Psychology over the past two years. She started out college as a Basic Business major. Her selection can be attributed to having taken a few business classes in high school, been a member of FBLA (mainly because her friends were too), both her parents had studied business, and it seemed like a sensible degree to earn when she didn’t feel she was necessarily “cut out for anything in particular”. Then, only picked Marketing because she was good at sales and found marketing to be interesting. While continuing her education, Alicen learned the importance of marketing and its position as the lifeline of every company, there she felt a sense of job security. But still, it was as if something was missing. A few years into college as graduation was looming and the job searching process began, she came to the quick realization that interest did not equal passion. She decided it was time to take a hard look at her future while she was still a consumer in the world of academia and could make a change more easily than post graduation. Alicen decided she wanted to pursue a career that would supply her not only a salary but a sense of purpose as well. Always having been squeamish and knowing she didn’t want to spend most of her life arguing in court nursing and becoming a lawyer were quickly ruled out. Next she started to consider psychology- unsure of why she had never had in the past. Alicen has always been curious about what people are thinking, feeling, the whys and hows behind every action- even minor actions have always intrigued her and transcended her into deep thought along with possessing a high level of introspection.
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<br/>'''University Innovation Fellows''' Fall 2016: [[Justin Medley|Justin Medley]] [[Shelby Williams|Shelby Williams]] '''Alicen Long''' [[Caroline timpson|Caroline Timpson]] Spring 2016: [[Nicholas Russell|Nicholas Russell]] [[Jacqueline Schulz|Jacqueline Schulz]] [[Ashlin Wildun|Ashlin Wildun]] Spring 2015: [[Jonathan Abbotoy|Jonathan Abbotoy]] [[Abigail Collins|Abigail Collins]] Spring 2014: [[Enis Cirak|Enis Cirak]]<br/> [[Category:Student Contributors|AS]][[Category:Student Contributors]][[Category:Tennessee_Technological_University_(2016_Fall_cohort)]][[Category:Student Contributors]]{{CatTree|Tennessee_Technological_University}}