Run for It: SGA Candidate Application for 2010-2011
Students serving in UMBC's SGA have opportunities to accomplish some amazing things, learn a lot and have fun. For some, it's a life-changing experience. Read more about SGA here, and consider running for a position for 2010-2011. No experience is necessary (you'll get the training you need).
I'm happy to talk with you about what it means to serve in an SGA position: the opportunities, the time commitment, what you'll learn, what you'll need to know. Just send me an email: dhoffman@umbc.edu. Especially if you're thinking about running for SGA President, I'd like to fill you in on how SGA works.
The application deadline is Friday, March 12th (the Friday before Spring Break). The application is online; just follow the link. If you want to get reminders or additional information sent to you by email, email me.
More information about SGA:
SGA's blog
SGA's web site
Links to a couple of SGA leaders' Real People Profiles . . .
Jen Kent, Executive Vice President
James McCauley, Treasurer
Links to a few old stories of my own amazing SGA experiences . . .
The Good Fight (story of an election that went horribly wrong)
An Election I Won
"That Was Mine"
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Real People Profiles: Joel DeWyer
I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty and staff, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses.
Name: Joel DeWyer
Hometown: Ocala, Florida by way of Delphos, Ohio
Q: How long have you been at UMBC?
A: Gosh, I think this is year #7.
Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?
A: I oversee The Commons Information Center, The Gameroom, Flat Tuesdays Pub, & the Event Admissions crew.
Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?
A: Participating in policy discussions & developments while still maintaining direct contact with the student body and our student employees.
Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?
A: Sometimes being right isn’t nearly as important as admitting when you’re wrong. Listening has gotten me much further than I think talking ever could have.
Q: Complete this sentence: “I am a big fan of __________”
A: Chess . . . seriously, I am--”.
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 have written in the little yellow book . . . have you?
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The Prove It! Buzz
At this moment, somewhere in The Commons, the Prove It! selection committee is going through proposals, weighing their merits, and envisioning what the campus would be like if they were implemented. The proposals--13 of them--were submitted earlier this year by teams of students competing for a $30,000 implementation grant and $5,000 cash prize. Each proposal sets forth a vision and step-by-step plan for improving something about campus life. The selection committee's goal is to identify an outstanding group of finalists. The winner from among those finalists will be chosen through a student vote.
I sat in on the first few minutes of the committee's meeting, and it was thrilling to watch the group work. The members include campus leaders from the administration, faculty, staff and student body. Some of the students are SGA members (SGA conceived, developed and is sponsoring Prove It!); others not. One was selected at random from the entire undergraduate population. The spirit in the room is amazing: Everyone truly believes that UMBC students have the creativity, passion and entrepreneurial skills to pull these big projects off. The committee members are volunteering their time because they know this is a big deal: Prove It! is a groundbreaking way to say to an entire campus community, "We all create this place together." Other campuses have launched contests modeled after Prove It!, but UMBC's is the original.
Stay tuned for more Prove It! news in the next few weeks; it's about to get really interesting.
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Real People Profiles: Janet McGlynn
I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty and staff, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses.
Name: Janet McGlynn
Hometown: Baltimore
Q: How long have you been at UMBC?
A: Nine years.
Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?
A: Facilitate undergraduate research programs and other work for the Office of Undergraduate Education.
Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?
A: Helping students to find opportunities they didn't know about at UMBC. One of these is the chance to pursue independent research, scholarship, and creative work.
Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?
A: Talk with your professors. Seek their advice about your future plans. Tell the professor (right away!) when you start to have a problem in a course.
Q: Complete this sentence: “I am a big fan of __________”
A: The classes designed for students in their first year at UMBC: First-Year Seminars (FYSs) and the Introduction to an Honors University courses (IHUs, the "Y" classes). Students who take any of these classes get so much information about making the most of their time at UMBC.
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 love the Fireside Lounge. I am amazed by the number of paid summer research fellowships available for undergraduates, mostly in the sciences, but some for students in other fields. The Career Services Center and Shriver Center staff are fabulously helpful to students who bring in their resumes for review.
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Snowmageddon II in My Neighborhood
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Snowmageddon in My Neighborhood (Photos)
From an upstairs window.
My car. Compare with the final photo, below.
Barrington Road (my street).
The trench I helped to dig across said street. When my neighbor started to dig in my direction, I found that I couldn't say 'no.' (Or, 'what's the point exactly?').
The same intersection on Sunday (trench is at right).
My wife Sharon walking our dog
Bucky. Well . . . carrying.
Indeed, the cars should go slowly to avoid the playing children.
Another neighborhood intersection, with evidence that some fool brave soul has managed to drive through it.
Explanation for my aching shoulders and back (and goofy sense of accomplishment).
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Egg Day
When you've lived long enough, there are specific moments that stand out in memory as the true turning points. Had those brief instances played out in a different way, you would have lived a completely different life, never having the experiences, meeting the people or traveling to the places that came to mean everything to you.
Sometimes those moments hinge on strokes of luck, for better or worse: the random encounter, the missed connection. More rarely (it seems to me), they involve someone else's intentionally grabbing the dice and changing your game.
23 years ago today, my friend Barak changed my life forever by eating an egg. Here's the story.
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Real People Profiles: Brandon Cottom
I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty and staff, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses.
Hometown: Montgomery Village, MD
Q: How long have you been at UMBC?
A: 3 years.
Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?
A: I make events happen with SEB, and am vice president of SEA.
Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?
A: The part of my role here I enjoy most is being able to improve my home (UMBC) by changing our gym into a huge party three times or more a year with Comedy, Concerts and Quadmania. Also by building the trashmonster with trash from around campus.
Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?
A: Here at college I learned you have to make all of your decisions for yourself. no one is here to tell you what is best for you or how to go about doing it. Which at times can be frustrating but its the kind of thing that really makes you grow.
Q: Complete this sentence: “I am a big fan of __________”
A: Quadmania.
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: While working as an OPA (Orientation Peer Advisor) I heard from an old student that Erickson field didn't used to have that steep hills it has on three sides, but they were dug out to make way for some project that never went through. Also through the Goddard Earth Sciences Technology center I was able to take advantage of UMBC being second in the nation in funding from NASA.
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Real People Profiles: Meron Tesfaye
I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty and staff, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses.
NOTE: This profile, of undergraduate Meron Tesfaye, is especially timely. Meron played a leading role in envisioning and producing this semester's Involvement Fest, which just concluded its successful three-day run on Main Street. If you enjoyed some snacks or entertainment, joined a student organization or just connected with old friends at Involvement Fest, Meron deserves your thanks. Nice work!
Name: Meron Tesfaye
Hometown: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Q: How long have you been at UMBC?
A: One year, five months.
Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?
A: I learn and grow to share my experience with others.
Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?
A: I really enjoy the learning part. It's just really exciting when you learn something new or when you see something in a different light and you wonder if everyone sees it and that feeling that makes you wanna tell everyone about it and change the world is really amazing.
Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?
A: To try new things, to never forget how amazing you are and how amazing others can be.
Q: Complete this sentence: “I am a big fan of __________”
A: People who write comics and screen writers of animation and cartoon movies (some how I always wonder how they have such a wonderful imagination?) and people who hike really high places (coz it really scares me).
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 Women Center : Something about it makes me feel like I'm at home .......and the naps I take there even if it is for 20 minutes between classes feel like heaven :)
- The pond by admissions office: Go there during summer around 7 or 8 pm ..... and just sit or lie on the side of the pond(make sure you don't fall though ...lol)....then tell me how it feels.
- The loop: sometimes I just get really tired, or annoyed and I just want to step out ..but can't go far because I have classes the next morning and I would just walk or run the loop when it's not too hot......somehow it revives me.
- The stadium: ....no one ever hangs out there....I don't know why.
- For such a small campus it's amazing how much UMBC has to offer and the cool thing is that there is always room for change - and more opportunities. I luv that about UMBC.
I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty and staff, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses.
Name: B. Rose Huber
Hometown: Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Q: How long have you been at UMBC?
A: 1.5 years.
Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?
A: I am a UMBC storyteller.
Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?
A: I love hearing students' stories and sharing their successes through writing, photography and videos.
Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?
A: The most important thing I learned in college was how to communicate. When I say "communicate," I don't necessarily mean in the academic sense. Sure, I learned how to structure a story and how to give a presentation to a room. But more importantly, I learned how to communicate with people - how to listen to their stories, share some of my own and establish meaningful relationships with others. (I should note that I am still, and continuously, learning how to be a better communicator.)
I also learned the importance of friendship by surrounding myself with an insanely talented and beautiful group of people. My dad always said you are who you surround yourself with.
Q: Complete this sentence: “I am a big fan of __________”
A: Lobsters. But not to eat. Just to look at and decorate with. And admittedly, it's more like an "obsession" than a "big fan."
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: Even though it gets crowded quickly, the RAC has become a second home for me (especially when it's too cold outside to run). One day a few months ago, I was running on the treadmill and noticed this girl staring at me. I figured it was my mismatched outfit or the food on my face (that I always feel is there for some reason - even if it's not). Instead she shouted across treadmill noise and pounding sneakers that I looked familiar. I told her she was probably thinking of someone else, that there was no way we knew each other. It turns out she was a student, had read my blog before and remembered my picture from the site. "Does your blog have something to do with lobsters?" she asked. I immediately starting laughing.
This is just one example of the many "small world" connections I've made at UMBC. I keep meeting people who know people that I know or know me; it's great! It was also my first blog sighting, so that was pretty cool :).
Name: Joel DeWyer 
