Real People Profiles: Sameera Syed
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.
Hometown: Burtonsville, MD
Q: How long have you been at UMBC?
A: A little over three years.
Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?
A:Currently just a member of a few different orgs; previously a First Year Ambassador and Senator in the SGA.
Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?
A: Elusive creature that lurks the halls of PuP.
Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?
A: Being a student. I finally began to savor my undergraduate experience after my sophomore year, in which I pulled a 180 by making a drastic change of major. Since then, I have been able to understand what it means to truly love academia. By switching my field to one that actually fascinates me, I have come to enjoy the simplest of school related things, such as attending classes and being in the presence of my professors and classmates.
Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?
A: Don’t be afraid of changing the entire direction of your life in order to reach your fullest potential. If you genuinely believe that there is another pathway out there that will give you greater fulfillment, pursue it. The short-term ramifications resulting from your decision may seem insurmountable, but the true value of such a change will be seen in due time.
Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"
A: 30 Rock. Love the witty jokes and ridiculous situations that the characters find themselves in. It’s like a celebration of absurdity, awkwardness, and nerdyness… what more could you want?!
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: As an incoming freshman, I remember coming across discussions on Facebook in which new students defended their decision to choose UMBC over other more prestigious universities. It was as if coming to UMBC required a really good explanation... as if “u must be crazy” to have enrolled here. Now that I’m nearing the end of my time here, I’ve realized how baseless this notion is. I’ve developed a great deal of respect for my professors and have met students who will one day be the movers and shakers of tomorrow. I’ve been able to build a strong foundation for my future academic and professional pursuits and have enjoyed the process of doing so... I guess those who reject a school, idea, or concept just have yet to gain from the very thing they’ve dismissed.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.
Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
Q: How long have you been at UMBC?
A: 5 Months
Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?
A: Event Management Coordinator
Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?
A: Mentor, Advisor and Event Coordinator for all Student Organizations
Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?
A: Interaction with the students
Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?
A: Getting involved and networking is key and can open up many doors for you as it has done for me.
Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"
A: Leadership and Involvement
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: The Chicken Salad sandwiches from the Administration building are the absolute best!!!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.
Hometown: I grew up in Silver Spring, now live in Boyds, and went to high school in Rockville, so I consider myself a Montgomery County resident at large.
Q: How long have you been at UMBC?
A: This is my fourth year!
Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?
A:I am the Representative Liaison for QUMBC, VP of Volunteers with Major Inspiration. I'm also in SGA's Health and Wellness and WILL (Women Involved with Leadership and Learning).
Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?
A: Collaborating to create social justice actions at UMBC. Oh, and take classes?
Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?
A: I love the idea of training little activists. At QUMBC, we have developed a horizontal structure that emphasizes members developing the skills to implement their own ideas to change the community. Basically, I want QUMBC to drive David Hoffman out of his job.
Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?
A: The strengths perspective in social work. It is taught in opposition to the problem-centered perspective, which emphasizes clients as problems that need to be solved by social workers. Instead, the strengths perspective wants social workers to acknowledge clients as the experts and masters of their own lives and that social workers are there to advocate for clients and empower them to change their own lives.
Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"
A: Context. Reductionism is my archenemy; I just want to contextualize, historicize, and complicate everything. It makes it difficult to create solutions when your problems are big and ancient instead of mindless beasts to slay, but that's what you have to do if you really want to effect change. You can't just focus on saving the deer when preserving an ecosystem or just hand a patient a prescription when treating them for a chronic problem: you have to situate problems in the greater context and in the systems involved. (And that is when you smash the patriarchal capitalist state.)
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: The professors and staff around you are not just teachers. They are (sometimes) amazing people with great stories and experience and knowledge and you need to tap that like they're maple trees and you have the driest pancakes ever. Talk to them, connect with them!
If nothing else, they may be more lenient with your final grade when you're BFFs.
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Real People Profiles: Jermeiah Brickey
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: Jermeiah Brickey
Hometown: Seabrook, MD
Q: How long have you been at UMBC?
A: I’ve been at UMBC since Fall 2007.
Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?
A:Inter-Fraternity Council President
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity President
UMBC Rugby Social Chair
UMBC Choice Program Volunteer
UMBC Ambassador Program
UMBC Woolie
Telecommunications Systems Intern (UMBC BWTech)
Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?
A: Most prominently, I am a huge advocate for Greek Life.
Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?
A: I love creating and coordinating events for student life. I’ve put together some events in the past few years, such as the Miss Minerva Talent Pageant and Dance-a-Thon, that have brought a lot of fun to campus and spotlight some of our amazing talent.
Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?
A: More than anything I’ve learned that college, and life as a whole, is just what you make it. Every bad day I’ve ever had in or out of class has been of my own making. College is a maturing experience that helps you to realize that every day is a chance to be awesome—you just have to decide that’s exactly what you’re going to do.
Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"
A: Smiling, regardless of the thousands of reasons not to. Shake it off brother, there are kids out there with no water.
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: Not enough people stop to enjoy the rock garden. Slow down and check it out next time on the way to the RAC. I met my future wife on the fifth of December some years ago. I was sitting with a friend and colleague in the lobby of The Priory, a Pittsburgh hotel. We had flown in from San Diego for a staff meeting. Ten feet away sat an adorable woman about our age, looking a little nervous. We thought she might be Sharon, one of the staff members hired since the last quarterly meeting, but we weren’t sure and, being shy and a little awkward, didn’t ask. Only when somebody who knew all three of us walked into the lobby did we finally meet.
Exactly a year and a day later, I waited anxiously for Sharon at the San Diego airport. We had gotten to know each as we worked together, mainly by phone and email. In the previous couple of weeks, we had acknowledged our feelings for each other across the miles. Now here she was at last, walking into my arms.
I gave her a small gift that day, a sign of hope for the new relationship we were building together. It was a musical Christmas ornament: a little angel. We spoke of it as an anniversary present, commemorating the day we had met. And every year since, I have given Sharon another musical ornament to mark the day.
There are many privileges that come with being alive and free and able to make choices. One of the best is the opportunity to create traditions that help give outward shape to our inward experiences. My relationship with Sharon now lives not just in our daily interactions but in our touchstones and customs, in the special symbols we have created to hold meanings more profound than words alone could ever convey. “Happy anniversary” only scratches the surface, but a happy anniversary it is.
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Real People Profiles: Matthew McNey
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.
Hometown: Columbia
Q: How long have you been at UMBC?
A: This will be my third year, fifth semester at UMBC and still loving every minute of it!
Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?
A:SGA Senator (this will be my third year in this position) and President of College Democrats.
Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?
A: Why 12 Words? Argh... ok: Supportive of change, loyal student advocate (not actually a Student Advocate) and political pragmatist.
Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?
A: In the past the SGA was in a role, not dissimilar from High School, positions were important and we were the loyal opposition to the administration. It has been a good transition from a competitive atmosphere when I entered SGA to a more equitable atmosphere and the organization becoming a shareholder in making decisions with the administration. I guess, the best aspect with my role would have to be participating in this change and continuing these philosophical discussions about where the campus should continue going, its always given me a certain feeling of place and purpose. I do hope to leave a meaningful impact on UMBC before I leave and in some big way.
Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?
A: Focusing on what the problem actually is to find solutions, not the other way around.
Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"
A: Speaking Truth to Power.
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 should say the SGA office, because I'm always there! Get involved! Otherwise College is boring, especially at UMBC where everyone takes studying way to seriously (me included), but there is never anything to do you just have to look, ask and investigate!Collin Wojciechowski has been selected as UMBC's nominee for Student Regent. Collin is a sophomore majoring in Political Science and pursuing a minor in History. He is Director of SGA's Office of Governmental and Community Affairs, Opinion Editor of The Retriever Weekly and a Sondheim Scholar. When he was in high school, Collin served as the student member of the Anne Arundel County Board of Education.
The Student Regent is the sole student member of the University System of Maryland Board of Regents, which governs a state public higher education system that includes the UMBC, the University of Maryland College Park, Towson University and eight other campuses, along with the Center for Environmental Science and two regional higher education centers (at Shady Grove and Hagerstown). As UMBC's nominee for the position for 2011-2012, Collin will be interviewed (along with the other campus nominees) in the next few weeks by the University System of Maryland Student Council, which will forward the names of three finalists for consideration by the Governor. Early next year Governor O'Malley will make the final choice.
UMBC nominees have had great success in recent years. The past 8 nominees all have been selected as finalists, and two have been appointed Student Regent: Phil Shockley (2003-2004) and Josh Michael (2008-2009). Last year's UMBC nominee, doctoral student Alexia Van Orden, now serves as the sole student member of the Maryland Higher Education Commission.
Good luck, Collin!
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Real People Profiles: Lindsey Barclay
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.
Hometown: Oklahoma City, OK/ Clinton, MD
Q: How long have you been at UMBC?
A: This is my fifth year at UMBC.
Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?
A:I am the Assistant Community Director in Harbor Hall.
Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?
A: Assistant Community Director and graduate student.
Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?
A: I love interacting with students! I get so much energy from the conversations that I have with them. They are intelligent, witty, passionate, and hilarious! They teach me something new each day. I get inspired by them all the time.
Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?
A: The most important thing I've learned at UMBC is to stay encouraged. Sometimes life gets overwhelming. But when I slow down and take it one step at a time, I remember that every day is a new opportunity to excel.
Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"
A: Delicious food! At the end of a long day, a big plate of something delectable always makes me smile :)
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 favorite spot on campus is the Harbor Hall desk. There is always something going on there! The desk staff are friendly and helpful. And sometimes, there's delicious baked goodies for everyone to enjoy. I get a boost of energy every time I walk by.
According to today's edition of the Diamondback, the University of Maryland College Park's SGA has just launched its own free DVD program modeled after the UMBC program. Read about it here.
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