Civil engineering major Nate Haugen was juggling four attractive job offers as classes at UW-Madison finished up this spring, but in the end he chose the company that would let him start late.
About two years late.
Haugen, 23, of Aurora, Ill., will join the Peace Corps first, building water systems and sanitation improvements in Central or South America. He does have to work six months for his new employer, M.A. Mortensen Co. in Minneapolis, before leaving – but even that commitment, to start in July, will come after a monthlong trip to Europe he begins Wednesday.