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All Roads Lead to Auburn: Dre Gaines

Dre Gaines is a junior majoring in journalism-sports production in the College of Liberal Arts. He grew up spending time in both Riverside, California, and Houston. After serving as a military police K9 handler in the U.S. Navy for three years, Dre attended a community college in California before transferring to Auburn. He is currently the chief engineer at Eagle Eye TV and works for Auburn Athletics' War Eagle Productions as a broadcast engineer. He originally became interested in Auburn because it was "his team" every time he played the NCAA Football 07 video game. Dre spent a month studying abroad in Paris and London with Auburn Abroad this past summer.

"After the military, I decided I wanted to use my education benefits and go back to school. After a year of attending community college, and also using some of the credits I received from military training, I applied to Auburn and got accepted. It was such an exciting event because I saw Auburn as a dream school," Dre said. "Getting accepted here has been one the best moments of my life."

Auburn University is home to more than 34,000 students — the "happiest students" around. They include nearly 28,000 undergraduates, almost 60% of whom come from the state of Alabama, and another group of more than 6,000 graduate students. Whether they're from Alabama, out-of-state or a country halfway across the world, many students have interesting paths full of twists and turns before they land in "The Loveliest Village on the Plains."

Read their stories at the All Roads Lead to Auburn website.

Tags: Students Communication and Journalism