Amelia Glebocki

Amelia took a non-traditional route to her college degree, with stops along the way at two universities, a stint as a Kroger pickup manager, and a thirteen-year gap before she finally got the diploma she'd always wanted.

She started at SVSU in 2007, set on becoming a publisher. Within her first semester, she joined Cardinal Sins and quickly rose to editor-in-chief. Her go-to spot on campus was the Roberta Allen Reading Room, where Cardinal Sins held many of its events and where Amelia spent hours studying and reading between classes. She'd always considered herself an "oddball," and SVSU was the first place she felt like she fit in. The students around her were working shifts before class, raising kids, figuring it out as they went, same as her. For the first time, Amelia found a support network that understood her.

After three years, Amelia decided publishing wasn't the path for her, and she wasn't sure college was either. She transferred to Wayne State University to be closer to home, staying until 2013, when she stepped away from school altogether to work full-time.

It was around this time that Amelia met her now-wife, Krystal, while the two were working together at Kroger. By 2020, Amelia had been promoted to manager of the pickup department. During the pandemic, Amelia and her staff were working harder than they ever had, with the need for grocery pickup growing exponentially overnight. She realized nearly every employee she supervised was a college student. She didn't want to feel stuck while everyone around her moved forward, so she decided it was time to go back and finish her degree.

When it came to picking a school, Amelia didn't have to think twice. SVSU was home. Her support system in Saginaw never really left; she'd stayed close with her best friend from her earliest days on campus, and with English Professor Elizabeth Rich, whom she'd kept in touch since 2010. Amelia returned to SVSU in 2021 and graduated in 2022 with a BA in General Studies and minors in English and Gender Studies.

She started working as a Special Education Paraprofessional during her last semester at SVSU and fell in love with the job immediately. Four years later, she's still there. Ask her why, and she'll tell you it's simple: the kids make her laugh every single day.

On May 16, 2026, Amelia married Krystal at SVSU. While most campus weddings happen in Founders Hall, Amelia (never one for the traditional route) had somewhere else in mind. She and Krystal said their vows in the Roberta Allen Reading Room, the same space where she'd once run Cardinal Sins meetings and logged countless study hours, surrounded by just twenty people, including the best friend who'd stood by her since 2007. Saginaw was where her people were, so Saginaw is where she got married.

Amelia is proud to be a first-generation college graduate, and especially proud that she finished her degree on her own terms, in her own time, in her thirties. The room where she once found her footing as a nineteen-year-old "oddball" is the same room where, nearly twenty years later, she married Krystal. For Amelia, SVSU was never just a place she passed through; it's the place that's always felt like home.

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