Brynn Surosky likes a plan. Even if she changes it a lot.
“All through high school, I’ve gone through so many different jobs and careers, like, ‘Oh, maybe I want to do this.’ And then I try it out or go shadow and I’m like, ‘Not for me,’” she said.
She has felt fully committed to interior design and physical therapy, then biomedical engineering. But at AACC, an anatomy and physiology class got her thinking. “If I can do this class, maybe I can be a nurse.”
It’s an idea that’s sticking. She graduated this year with a degree in transfer studies with a concentration in health sciences and was conditionally accepted into the nursing program for fall 2026.
It’s a surprising twist for the Severna Park High School graduate, who participated in the Early College Access Program (ECAP) at AACC, then attended the college full time. She initially planned to transfer that spring.
But Surosky said she’s found a lot of unexpected opportunities. “I like being a big fish in a small pond and I feel like that would be hard to do at a four-year, especially since a lot of these opportunities, you’re not competing with like 10,000 other students,” she said. “It’s more accessible.”
Outside the classroom, Surosky has participated in the cheerleading squad, taking on a leadership position, running practices and creating choreography.
With her demanding extracurriculars and class load, she’s found that professors are understanding. “People have a lot of stuff going on. … There’s people here who have jobs, they’re parents, everything. It’s been so much easier to talk to teachers and be like, ‘Hey, I need this accommodation. I need this help,’” she said. “Teachers are really great here.”