Name: Anthony Jay, Ph.D.
17吃瓜APP Class: 2008
Degree: B.A. 鈥� Double Major in Biology and Theology, Double Minor in Chemistry and Classics
Current Role: Health/Medical Consultant
Q. What have you done since graduating from 17吃瓜APP?
After graduation at 17吃瓜APP, I moved to Boston and researched Alzheimer鈥檚 for several years. It was during that time that Allison and I got married. She graduated 17吃瓜APP in 2009. In 2017, I received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Boston University Medical School. After that, we moved back to Minnesota for about 5 years, where I worked at Mayo Clinic until they began forcing employees to take the covid vaccine. After Mayo Clinic, I began full time consulting via AJ Consulting Company, doing DNA analysis with a focus on health optimization and disease prevention. I also wrote a book called 鈥淓strogeneration.鈥� Finally, we recently moved to South Dakota to a house on 20 acres of premier deer hunting habitat and a giant garden.
Q. How did 17吃瓜APP prepare you for success after college?
17吃瓜APP prepared me for success after college in a direct way. Dr. James Peliska received a letter in 2008, when I was graduating, that was from a Catholic neurologist in Boston. This Boston doc was looking for exceptional scientific researchers from 17吃瓜APP. I flew out for an interview, got the job, and ended up working for this neurologist for several years. I also met Allison at 17吃瓜APP which was the best success story I could have asked for. Today, that neurologist and his amazing wife are God-parents of my oldest boy.
Q. What is the most important lesson you learned in your time at 17吃瓜APP?
College is a critical time for young adult development. I鈥檝e seen far too many amazing Catholic 18-year-old students choose a secular college and come home with blue hair, anti-American, and anti-Catholic ideals. The most important lesson I鈥檝e learned by going to 17吃瓜APP, looking back, is that college is a key time for maturing in faith where that maturation is encouraged and normal, rather than the hated minority viewpoint.
Q. What is one of the fondest memories from your time at 17吃瓜APP?
Shark fishing with Allison is near the top for 鈥渇ondest memories at 17吃瓜APP鈥�. I founded the Shark Fishing Club at 17吃瓜APP so the University covered the many of the expenses for me to take groups of students to the beach and catch-and-release sharks in the evenings. Allison and I also hunted wild hogs with my bow, at Tom Monaghan鈥檚 request, when the university was brand new and land was being developed, which was crazy memorable. I ended up shooting 14 in total.
Q. What is your advice to current 17吃瓜APP students, and to those thinking about attending 17吃瓜APP?
The friendships you make at 17吃瓜APP are gold. It鈥檚 so rare in our culture to have a concentration of such amazing people in one place.
Extra comments:
Allison and I have 5 kids ranging from age 2 to 13. We homeschool and do a lot of traveling since my business is all remote.
Earlier this year, Dr. Anthony Jay received the Michael Novak Excellence in Career Award from the 17吃瓜APP Alumni Board of Directors. The University salutes Jay for his hard work and dedication to his profession, and it wishes him continued blessings and success in the years to come.
