Real People Profiles: Joshua Day
I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty, staff and alumni, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses.

Name: Joshua Day

Hometown: Bethesda, MD

Q: How long have you been at UMBC?

A: 2 years

Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?

A: Finance Board Member, Student Government Association; Advertising Committee Member, Relay For Life; Fundraising Chair and Brother, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Incorporated; Representative, Student-Athlete Advisory Council (Cross Country, Track & Field)

Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus? 

A: a unifying factor among different groups on campus

Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?

A:  meeting new people and simply talking with them because communication is one of the greatest joys (not to sound corny lol)

Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?

A:  College and everything it encompasses is a business and they will rob you of your money if you don't speak up and take matters in your own hand

Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"

A:  people who never give up

Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?

A: Back in the day we used to have 2 gyms...and we had parties that were like that on campus lol...attracting people from different colleges/universities. Also no matter how long you've been here you can always find something new if you go exploring.



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I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty, staff and alumni, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses.

Name: Lindsey Mitchell

Hometown: Harrisonburg, VA

Q: How long have you been at UMBC?

A: Since July 2011

Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?

A: Coordinator of Student Events

Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus? 

A: I advise the Student Events Board to help provide quality campus programming

Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?

A:  So far I've met such an amazing group of students and staff members who have blown me away with their creativity, passion and innovation. It's been an inspiring place to work!

Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?

A:  When I first went to college I wasn't involved at all and really didn't enjoy my college experience the first two years. I ended up transferring to another school and got a job on campus my first week there; it completely changed my perspective on what college should be. If I were to share the single most important thing that I learned from college.. it's to get involved! Your four (or five or six...) years in college can be an amazing time in your life if you intentionally complement your academic experience with other extracurricular outlets.

Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"

A:  Road trips :)

Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?

A:   I'd have to say my favorite moment so far at UMBC was when I walked into my new office and there was a huge welcome banner that the SEB students made on my first day of work. What a great way to feel welcomed! I'm looking forward to meeting many of you around campus and seeing the amazing programs that SEB will put on this year.

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In order to earn my minimum wage, I accepted customers' orders, worked the register, and struggled to answer their questions about the posters for sale, most depicting very expensive cars or military hardware.  But my most memorable customer didn't buy a thing; he showed up with something to return--a damaged plaque The Laminators clearly hadn't sold him (it was the wrong color and lacked the signature beveled edge).  He was a big guy in a muscle shirt, and he seemed to sense that I was alone and not very self-confident. Our interaction went something like this:

Customer: You guys sold me this piece of crap and I didn't notice it was already damaged until I unwrapped it at home.  I'd like a full refund.

Me: I'm sorry. I think you might be mistaken. We don't make plaques like this one. Could you have purchased this from a different store?

Customer: You don't think I know where I bought this? Look, I'm in a hurry. This cost me $110, and I'd like it back. Now.

Me: I'm sorry, sir. We don't issue refunds once our products leave the store. We never wrap them before the customer sees and accepts them. And like I said, I don't think we made this plaque. Do you have a receipt? If you like, I can get in touch with the manager . . .


Customer: What?? No, you little @$%!#. Don't play games with me! Don't call your manager! Can't you think for yourself? I am a customer and I'm showing you that you sold me damaged goods. I want my f%$@# $110. Now!

Me: Well, I'm sorry, sir, but I'm not authorized to give it to you. Please, just let me put you on the phone with the manager. He can explain . . .

Customer: You f%$@#! Stop being such a p%&*!@! Look, if you can't use your tiny little brain to process a $%@#! simple refund, I can f%$@#! do it for you! Now open that f%$@# register and give me my g@!d@%$# $110! NOW!

Me: F%$@# you, sir!

For ten seconds, we stared silently at each other, me paralyzed with fear: not that the man was going to take my head off (a distinct possibility, but I could live with that) but that I was going to be fired for cursing at a customer. Then the man turned around and stormed away. Two minutes later I had my manager on the phone, and he absolved me of blame. He was just glad I hadn't given the refund.

So what "interesting" jobs have you had? Any good stories?

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LATTE will take place from Saturday morning, October 22nd through Sunday afternoon, October 23rd at the Skycroft Conference Center in Middletown, MD (bus transportation provided from UMBC).  Participation is free.

Here's a link to the application: www.tinyurl.com/umbclatte2011app.  The application deadline is this Friday, October 7th.

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Our chapter’s main focus is to educate members regarding the variety of BME related industries in the area by having frequent guest speakers and site visits from industries such as Osiris-stem cell therapy, MedImmune-biopharmaceutical, UMBC incubator, GE Heathcare, etc. Besides educating members, these speaker and visitation events are also used to facilitate students-professional networking and exposure to the array of job opportunities in BME related industries. Also, members will have the opportunity to learn about discoveries and innovations in the BME field through facilitated discussions each meeting. In addition, our chapter is planning on having engineering faculty and student social events, peer mentoring, and outreach and volunteer events.

Both undergraduate and graduate students of UMBC are welcome. Since we are a newly found organization and therefore very member-focused, we strongly encourage our members to suggest site visits and events they would like to engage in. Our first meeting is Wednesday October 5th at noon in ITE229 with subsequent meetings on every other Wednesday. We’ll talk about recent exciting innovations in the BME field, future planned events, visits and speakers, and take suggestions on other events and site visits we can offer.

Please email our secretary Phillip Kang (pkang1@umbc.edu) if you’re interested in joining the club or to be enrolled in our email list. Please mark your calendars for Wednesday Oct 5th!

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We are pleased to announce that more than 25 of our PROMISE students and affiliates will be attending the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Compact for Faculty Diversity/Institute on Teaching and Mentoring: http://www.instituteonteachingandmentoring.org/Institute/index.html in Atlanta, GA, October 20-23, 2011. The SREB participants will be discussing some thoughts related to their experiences and plans in this thread.


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I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty, staff and alumni, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses.

Name: Joey McElroy

Hometown: Catonsville, MD

Q: How long have you been at UMBC?

A: 2 Years

Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?

A: Student Events Board Programmer

Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus? 

A: Event enthusiast, planner, promoter, attendee, and that commuter who never leaves campus.

Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?

A:  It sounds cheesy, but meeting new people is the coolest part of being on SEB. Whether it is an incoming freshman or Snoop Dogg himself, I have met some of the coolest people through my involvement on campus.

Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?

A:  My time at UMBC has taught me to take a little risk and put myself out there. All throughout grade school I was awkwardly shy, but UMBC has completely changed that. Even just a few years ago, I would have never imagined doing things like running a major event, or going on a 5 day leadership retreat.

Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"

A:  Harry Potter… And Disney. It’s actually kind of a problem.

Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?

A:   My all time favorite spot on campus is the Student Orgs Space, I have easily spent more time there than I have in class. Between SEB, SGA, and other Student Orgs, there is always something going on.

GET INVOLVED- Especially if you aren’t the type of person who normally would. Getting involved is the easiest way to find your place on campus and get the most out of your time at UMBC.
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My "only at UMBC" list would include:
  • Only at UMBC is the largest indoor open space on campus lined with giant chess pieces
  • Only at UMBC do students frequently practice dances, play Go and Chess, study, and hold student organization meetings in the same space (the Student Orgs Space on The Commons' 2nd floor) at the same time
  • Only at UMBC is the big, crazy, fun night before classes start each fall called Big Crazy Fun Night
  • Only at UMBC does the SGA award large grants to students to back their proposals to improve some aspect of the campus (through the Prove It! competition, which will take place later this semester).
OK, that last one isn't really "only at UMBC," because Prove It! has been imitated on other campuses.  But it's a UMBC original.

What's on your list?

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Before I started working at UMBC in 2003, I had lived in Southern California for nearly all of my 36 years. People on campus asked me all the time what could possibly have motivated me to leave paradise for . . . this.

I admit that I didn't come to Baltimore for the weather. But I am a big fan of the rain, sleet and snow. I could live without the tear-inducing blasts of frigid wind plaguing Commons Drive on winter mornings, but that aside, I love the cold.

Cold, wet weather reminds me that I came here by choice, and that I have the power to shape my life, my career and my contributions. No mere inertia or taken-for-granted assumptions about my destiny hold me here. Against the 75-degrees-and-sunny backdrop of my former life, snowflakes and raindrops are symbols of freedom and personal agency.  

I think everyone could use those symbols, those reminders to choose and not simply surrender to the tug and pull of the taken-for-granted. Maybe you have your symbols too.

Summers are very different too: July and August in Southern California are not nearly as moist as they are here. So I must also treasure the heat and humidity as symbols of freedom, right? But no. They just make me sweat.

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