Graduate Student Association
Executive Board

Why UMBC?: I enjoy the challenging research and the friendly environment.
Post-UMBC Plans: Working as a research engineer for the federal government.
Words I Live by:"Take things one day at a time."

Why UMBC?: I was interested in working with my current PI and UMBC’s biology program appealed to me.
Post-UMBC Plans: Post-doc in Biology.
Words I Live by: "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind."

Why UMBC?: The environment encourages growth and innovation. I like the modern architecture, too.
Post-UMBC Plans: Improve the conditions of the world, continue to write (fiction and non-fiction), embrace the chain of events and choices that lead to an unknowable but logical future.
Words I Live by: "Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one." Marcus Aurelius

Why UMBC?: The real question should be...why not UMBC?
Post-UMBC Plans: Ph.D./J.D. programs in metro DC area, and then take over the world!
Words I Live by: "Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why UMBC?: I collaborated with the actual PI during my masters and I wanted to keep working on the same questions his laboratory is interested in.
Post-UMBC Plans: I would like to do a Post-doc although I have not decided where.
Words I Live by: “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” William Shakespeare

Why UMBC?: There are great faculty advisors in Mechanical Engineering.
Post-UMBC Plans: A Ph.D. in Bio-Engineering
Words I Live by: You always pass failure on the way to success.

Why UMBC?: The curriculum supports my interests and objective.
Post-UMBC Plans: Work for an IT or banking company in the U.S.A.
Words I Live by: Do or die.