1.  Tell us a little about yourself.

My name is Carly Sciandra and I am a junior Biology major with a Chemistry and History minor. I hope to obtain my MD/Ph.D in the future and spend the rest of my life helping others.

2.  Tell us about how you are involved on campus.

I am:

- an undergraduate researcher in Dr. Michael Summers HIV Structural Biology Lab

-the secretary/Risk Management Officer for Phi Delta Epsilon International Medical Fraternity

-an athlete tutor and Organic Chemistry LA

3.  How long have you been tutoring/working as an SI/PASS Leader. 

-this is my third semester

4.  How and why did you get involved in SI/PASS?

I LOVED going to PASS_SI sessions when I took Biology 141. The confidence the leader instilled in me in my knowledge made me determined to become a leader to do the same for incoming students.

5.  What is your favorite thing about being an SI/PASS Leader?

I love watching students interact in groups to learn material that once confused them. The expression and pride they get when they finally grasp material is extremely rewarding.

6.  Why should students attend SI/PASS sessions?

Even if you are completely confident in the class or struggling to understand something, coming to these sessions will give a student the ability to work with peers to see their perspective on the material. They can gain more confidence through teaching others or work on understanding material through group work and activities.

7.  What advice would you give students about how to prepare for an SI/PASS session?

Read the textbook and take notes on the chapter.

8.  When and where can someone participate in your SI/PASS sessions?

SI/PASS Sessions Schedules are available online on our website.

My CHEM 352 sessions are on Wednesdays  11:00 – 11:50 a.m. and  Fridays 11:00 – 11:50 a.m. in SOND 208 

“We are always just asking each other and we help each other out.”

“...the longer you stay on the less these things bother you.”

Hello League of Legends Club Members,

First off, if you’re new to the club - welcome! This semester your League of Legends club Executive Board is bringing a lot of new additions to the table and we cannot wait to get things started. Before we announce these events, we just wanted to make a quick meeting about everything we will cover this year.

During our first general body meeting we will be talking about upcoming events, a vacant position on the executive board, and UMBC’s very first intramural league! Our first general body meeting is going to be this Wednesday, February 15th, in Public Policy 105 during free hour (12pm - 1pm). If you're interested in joining our executive board, joining us in our social/competitive events, or playing intramural League of Legends, then we hope to see you at the first GBM!

• The con-artist will contact you via email and ask you if you are interested in participating in a survey or job assignment. 
• If you reply that you are interested, the con-artist will mail you a check for an amount of money and ask you to deposit the money in your bank account.
• The con-artist will then either ask you to quickly buy items and have them shipped to an address or ask you to wire transfer money.  They will say that you get to keep $200 of the money from the check as your salary. 
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If you have received one of these messages, do not purchase any items or wire any money to the con-artist.  As soon as you ship the items or wire the money to the con-artist, your money is gone.  Just stop responding to the con-artist.

If you are a victim and have sent money to the con-artists, please file a criminal complaint with the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center.  They can be reached at the following web address:  https://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx

Mark Cather / UMBC Chief Information Security Officer

Deuteronomy 30:11-14 (NIV) - “Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, “Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, “Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.”

What God says here - to the people of Israel of old - and to us today - is completely contrary to how we often feel, isn’t it?  It so often seems to us that God far away, as far as the sun and stars in heaven.  And it seems that knowing His heart and ways, much less obeying them, is a journey, with uncertain success, that only few can even dream to undertake.

But in His great love for His people, God promises and provides something completely contrary.  ”No,” He says, “the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.”

Let us receive this truth again, thanking God that this is the kind of God He is, and exercising the truth of this promise - by taking this passage into our hearts and speaking it over our lives and our church today.  Spend some time memorizing and declaring this passage to yourself today.  Then, take this word that is near to you, and proclaim it to someone that you love.

-BR