Spotlight

Read about Signature’s current featured alum!
Class of 2017
Conner Pratt

What is your favorite memory of your time at Signature?

Call me cliché, but it’s an impossible task to pick a favorite memory, rather, I’ve been left with a feeling…or maybe a sensation, like a childhood movie, that I was transported somewhere special for a little while and that I am grateful for it. The beauty of Sig is in the individual. I remember, more than anything, the people, and how everyone I knew imprinted a special quality or character onto that place. There was no real popularity, or clique, or in-group. The wallflowers were just as important as the social butterflies. 

How has the education you received at Signature impacted your college experience and beyond?

Obviously, it made college easy. I actually had to “unprogram” my brain to study less! I still have a voracious appetite for knowledge that I got from Sig, with the added benefit of being able to learn and create whatever I like! I am an adult after all. Or at least I am pretty sure…the being an adult bit, not the learning bit. 

Beyond the work ethic, I think Sig made me a more empathetic person, which is the quality I most admire in myself and am the most grateful for. It wasn’t “Sig the School,” but more “Sig the People,” that taught me, especially among my peers, that I experienced a brimming, overflowing degree of candidness and perspective from. The cultures, the backgrounds, the personalities, made me see the world for what it is: a fishbowl with the ocean filled into it. it’s crowded, cluttered with life, and the more you see, the more you feel. I think they have a saying about spending a day in someone’s shoes…

“What did you study in college? What are you doing now?”

I studied Marketing with a double minor in Psychology and Arts Management at Indiana University. Now I work with startups in Bloomington helping grow businesses that I care about. I am also a videographer and musician on the side!