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What Can You Do with a UMaine Degree?

What can you do with a UMaine degree? Become one of the world’s best-selling authors. Light “The Lion King” on Broadway — and win a Tony for it. Be chosen for Oprah’s Book Club. Work as an engineer at NASA. Play for the New England Patriots. Prevent famine in Asia. Become a celebrity chef. Save the world — or at the very least, the Himalayas. Publish The Improper Bostonian or Down East. Cover baseball and hockey for ESPN. Become governor of Maine. Play in the World Series. Work with the United Nations on human-rights issues. Search for a cure for cancer. Win a Nobel Peace Prize. Coach the U.S. Olympic hockey team. Become one of America’s top innovators. Win a Pulitzer Prize. Start Maine’s biggest advertising firm — after studying engineering. Be a bigwig at the Library of Congress. Win an Oscar — and be Quentin Tarantino’s right-hand man. Work for Apple. Be named one of the 10 most powerful women in Washington by Fortune magazine. That’s what a few of our 97,000 alumni have done. What will you do?