Graduate Student Stories Transcripts: Yue Ma
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I will graduate this December. I still love UMD, I think I will miss here, in the future.
I think I got interested in accounting when I was very little, because my mother is also an accountant, so I can get- touch with numbers when I was very little. I can see how big companies operate, by seeing their financial statement, and also, I can connect with different people, and, by building a longterm relationship.
Graduate Student Stories Transcripts: Aakash Aggarwal
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While in my undergrad, I picked up some courses related to signals and systems, and signals in general, and those courses really got me into telecommunications, and then I worked for a big telecommunications multinational, which was based in Sweden. The University of Maryland offered me a good mix of managerial courses, as well as technical courses related to telecommunications. This was one of its kind program, all across the U.S.
Graduate Student Stories Transcripts: Ana Sanchez-Rivera
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I come from Puerto Rico, and I did my master's in Upstate New York, so I needed something a little bit more, uh, in the middle of that, and the weather was important for me.
Graduate Student Stories Transcripts: Dana Arbaugh Varona
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Around the eighth grade, I was kind of like a lackluster student and, you know, like a, a B student. I wasn't that into school or anything. But I had a really amazing experience in my middle school band. And I had a band director that had inspired to do a better job and to push myself to be better and he got me paired up with a professional horn player who attended Julliard and she was a great, you know, positive female role model for me.
Graduate Student Stories Transcripts: Jessica Stern
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When I was looking at grad programs, I really didn't want a place where it was going to feel cutthroat competitive. I wanted a group of people who I could work well with and make friends for life with and I feel like I have that here.