<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/about/newsroom/student-stories-felipe-rios.cfm" dsn="blogs"><featured>true</featured><pubDate>11/24/2025</pubDate><title>Game Design student fulfilling dreams</title><description>Felipe Rios grew up with video games in his life. It would be years before Felipe, now a B.S. in Simulation and Game Design student, would fully adopt the hobby himself. And when he did, he was all in. </description><author>Student Stories</author><image><img src="https://www.ubalt.edu/about/newsroom/assets/images/felipe-rios-feature.jpg" alt="Felipe Rios looks on while standing on campus at UBalt. "/></image><image-cap/><quote>Every class that I take, as I get closer to the end of my degree, I continue to be affirmed that this was the right choice because I'm learning from people who are passionate to the same degree that I am.</quote><quote-name>Felipe Rios</quote-name><quote-info>B.S. in Simulation and Game Design student</quote-info><tags><tag>Academics</tag><tag>Student Stories</tag><tag>Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences</tag><tag>transfer</tag></tags></item>