Meet “Mr. NYIT.” “The day I walked through the doors of the #NYIT Auditorium on Broadway, I got the feeling that this was the place for me,” said Mohammad Tariq Jamal (B.S. ‘18). As an international student from Saudi Arabia, Jamal was unsure of what he would encounter and how to navigate his way through a new environment. With the help and guidance of his orientation leader and first-year mentor, he found his footing. “My orientation leader and first-year mentor told me to put myself out there and attend as many events as I can so that I can socialize with domestic students and blend in,” he recalled. “Fast forward to the end of my first year, I had become an orientation leader myself, as well as a first-year mentor and student ambassador in the Admissions office.” Since then, he continued his role as an orientation leader and first-year mentor and in the summer of 2017, he became the orientation coordinator and first-year mentor coordinator. He was also promoted to senior student amb...