Meet UMaine’s 2019 Outstanding Graduating Students
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Eben Lenfest:
I chose UMaine because I wanted to come to a school with a renowned engineering program in the Northeast.
Grace Pouliot:
It felt like home. I know that’s a little bit cliché, but my sister was an undergrad here, and I came to visit campus one time when she was a student, and I just fell in love with campus. I walked on the Mall and I said, “This feels like home.”
Eben Lenfest:
It’s affordable.
Vincent Eze:
I just love the campus I love the environment I love those and the sense of community base they have.
Eben Lenfest:
Just the right size. It’s big enough so that you can find interesting things to do, really whatever interests you, but small enough so that you still run into friends all the time.
Shayla Rose Kleisinger:
So I think that the University of Maine has extensive research opportunities.
Thilee Sarah Yost:
I’m investigating how Asian Americans in the United States participate in mainstream politics. So I traveled out to Saint Paul, Minnesota recently to talk to different community members of the Hmong American population.
Natascia Laverde:
Well the project that I’ve been mostly focused on were the study on resistance, historical resistance.
Thilee Sarah Yost:
I talked to them about how they were able to come over as an immigrant and a refugee group and how they’ve been very successful in being able to be a part of American politics.
Dominic Guimond:
My first internship was at Tyler Technologies, I worked at the help desk and it really helped me learn about IT. Really help me define what I want to get into.
Eben Lenfest:
I was afforded the opportunity to spend the summer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama so I could learn more the technology. We developed a model there and then when we came back in the fall we got to test it at the Composite Center’s wave tank.
Grace Pouliot:
The College of Education is really phenomenal because from the very beginning in our freshman year we’re getting out in the field and working with children. I’ve also felt really lucky to be a part of the Honors College because between the two of them I feel like I have all the support and professional development that I could ever need.
Eben Lenfest:
It was really cool being part of something new that had never been done before. Being part of the research and getting to work with some really cool people.
Shayla Rose Kleisinger:
Getting into the All Maine Woman honor society has definitely changed my view. I was really caught up in engineering for a long period of time, but being a part of this group of leadership and strong successful women on campus has really given me an opportunity to see other perspectives. There are people from all majors involved with this organization. I just met an awesome network of women.
Ilija Stojiljkovic:
UMaine has such a diverse core of professors that provides so many different viewpoints that actually shaped the way I view things and I’m really grateful that I had the experience to work with all those professors.
Lydia Murray:
The person I am today compared to the person I was freshman year coming in here it’s completely different. Having to balance the sport and nursing together really shaped me and helped me with a lot of things that I think you’re going help me going forward too.
Vincent Eze:
I think the thing that I find interesting about the University of Maine is the fact that the people around you are always there to help you.
Ilija Stojiljkovic:
I came in as a boy, basically and am leaving as a man. There’s a lot of people that I met on the way that affected me in many ways, but I’m happy to say attending UMaine was probably the best decision I made so far in my life.