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Sandra Knispel:<\/strong> [music the Genesee] Yep, it\u2019s that time of year again…to be precise\u2014the 169th<\/sup> graduation at the University of Rochester. So, get ready to belt out the alma mater song\u2014the Genesee\u2014written by 1892 alumnus T.T. Swinburn\u2026and performed here expertly by the YellowJackets, the University\u2019s oldest a capella group. This year, about 1,600 undergrads and 900 graduate students are receiving degrees from the University. Here are four of them:<\/p>\n

Gillian Gingher:<\/strong> Hi, my name is Gillian Gingher and I\u2019m graduating with a bachelor\u2019s in art history and business.<\/p>\n

Benton Gordon:<\/strong> I\u2019m Benton Gordon and I\u2019m graduating with a bachelor\u2019s degree in applied music in flute performance from the Eastman School of Music.<\/p>\n

Beatriz Gil:<\/strong> I\u2019m Beatriz Gil, I\u2019m graduating with a bachelor degree in economics and political science, and with a minor in Chinese and international relations. And I\u2019m from Barcelona, Spain.<\/p>\n

Gabriel <\/strong>Guisado<\/strong>: <\/strong>I\u2019m Gabriel Guisado. I\u2019m graduating with a bachelor\u2019s degree in biomedical engineering.<\/p>\n

____<\/p>\n

Knispel:<\/strong> After four years on campus it\u2019s time to seek out new adventures..<\/p>\n

Gingher:<\/strong> I\u2019m planning on pursuing a master\u2019s of architecture degree.<\/p>\n

Knispel:<\/strong> Gillian Gingher is heading next to the Georgia Institute of Technology next for her master\u2019s degree. As an undergrad she interned at several art museums in New York City and at the University\u2019s Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester. She was also the events manager for the student-run Harnett Gallery on campus.<\/p>\n

Gingher:<\/strong> [During] my time spent working in the art world I\u2019ve learned a lot\u2014that I like working with people and that I like working in social-justice capacities. So, it actually helped me figure out that I wanted to go into architecture, because I knew I loved art, science, design, and maybe I do like math [laughs]. Don\u2019t tell my dad I said that though. I decided I wanted to go into architecture because I knew it was a way to help people. I basically want to go into an urban design route and design public housing and mixed-income housing.<\/p>\n

Gordon<\/strong>: In August, I\u2019ll be leaving for Taiwan to work as an English teaching assistant through the Fulbright program. I\u2019m looking forward to not only immersing myself in Taiwanese culture, developing my Mandarin Chinese skills but also working with a local English teacher and learning how to become a better classroom teacher.<\/p>\n

Gil:<\/strong> I\u2019m going to San Francisco. So we\u2019ll be going to California. I\u2019ve never been there but I\u2019m very excited. I\u2019ve heard really good things about San Francisco and I\u2019ll be working in consulting in the Department of Strategy and Operation as a business analyst for Deloitte.<\/p>\n

Guisado: <\/strong>So, I\u2019m going to be working with Accenture, which is a consulting firm. And I\u2019ll be in Philadelphia, working on their technology side and I\u2019m hoping to work with healthcare and biotechnology clients.<\/p>\n

Knispel:<\/strong> So, where do you hope to land eventually\u2014what\u2019s your dream job? First up Beatriz Gil.<\/p>\n

Gil:<\/strong> My dream job would be around politics. I think that before I really liked the idea of running for office. I\u2019m not sure if that is anymore just because I think I really like more the international perspective and sometimes I think when you run for office it\u2019s more focused on your country. So, something that I\u2019m very interested in is applying consulting to politics. So, international consulting. I just can\u2019t do it right now in the US because I wouldn\u2019t go through the clearance for political consulting but that\u2019s something that I would be very interested in.<\/p>\n

Gordon<\/strong>: My professor at Eastman asked me that same question in my first lesson: \u201cWhat\u2019s your dream yob?\u201d And back then at the beginning of my first year I said, \u201cWell, my dream job is to play piccolo with the Seattle Symphony.\u201d I\u2019m from Seattle and my high school teacher currently occupies that seat, so I can\u2019t realize that job until she\u2019s retired. But nowadays the question is a bit more complicated. Many days my dream job would be playing in an orchestra, playing piccolo and soaring above the rest of the instruments.<\/p>\n

Knispel:<\/strong> After his first year at Eastman, Benton Gordon took a gap year for financial reasons. He ended up substitute teaching at his former middle and high school, which gave him another idea\u2026<\/p>\n

Gordon:<\/strong> I taught every subject except computers at the middle school. I taught high school science and Chinese. And when I came back to Eastman I realized I really missed teaching. So nowadays, I\u2019m kind of caught between the two. Going forward the role that music has in my life could look very different. It might be my full-time profession. I might go out and win an orchestra job and get that seat with the Seattle Symphonie. But it might also be something that I do on the side.<\/p>\n

Guisado: <\/strong>I think my dream job at this point would be something having to do with entrepreneurship in biomedical engineering and maybe on the consulting side that I\u2019m starting out of\u2014so possibly having my own biotech\/healthcare consulting firm in the future. Because one of my passions and why I picked my major is that I really care about people\u2019s access to healthcare and trying to make that cheaper and I think that consultants can play a role in that\u2014more so than just waiting on policy to do so.<\/p>\n

Knispel: <\/strong>Gillian Gingher, the budding architect, also happened to be a meridian for the University, taking prospective students and their parents for tours of our River campus.<\/p>\n

Gingher: <\/strong>I actually became a meridian my freshman spring, so a long time ago. I loved taking my tours to funny little places that are not on the scripted tour route. Just because I have so many little niches, like in the library and many places like that.<\/p>\n

Knispel<\/strong>: So, if I came to campus as a potential freshman where would you take me? What\u2019s your special spot that\u2019s not on the tour?<\/p>\n

Gingher:<\/strong> Oh, I mean I love taking people into the book stack. I don\u2019t always take them like into <\/em>the book stack but I love showing them the Otis elevator since it\u2019s one of the oldest elevators in Rochester and it\u2019s also a really old elevator in general, which is super cool. If you like architecture\u2014the elevator is basically what happened to make the skyscraper and that basically created American architecture. So, it\u2019s a big deal looking at an old elevator\u2026for a nerd like me, at least.<\/p>\n

Knispel:<\/strong> And talking of favorite spots\u2026 here\u2019s Gabriel Guisado\u2019s..<\/p>\n

Guisado:<\/strong> It\u2019s not really a spot. For me it\u2019s very iconic. It\u2019s the Eastman Quad. And I remember going for accepted students day and saying, \u201cWow, I just feel like I am at this prestigious university that\u2019s going to help me grow and mature and it just feels like a culmination of a lot of things. So, I definitely want to come back there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Knispel:<\/strong> So, how much did they get involved in campus life? Beatriz Gil was first the president of class council for three years and then, in her last year, the president of student government. She got involved, she says, to give international students a voice.<\/p>\n

Gil:<\/strong> I would say the contribution I\u2019ve been able to make to international students\u2026and I don\u2019t think I can name one thing. I think it has been small changes. So, I\u2019ve worked with orientation, I\u2019ve worked with Fraternities [and] Sororities affairs, I\u2019ve worked within Class Council, with Residential Life as an RA, and through Student Government. And I think with all of those things I\u2019ve been able to make small changes that have had hopefully, I think, a large impact on international students on campus.<\/p>\n

Guisado: <\/strong>I\u2019ve primarily been involved with the National Society of Black Engineers, which is something I\u2019ve been involved with in my four years here. So I started off trying to find a club that really fits what I\u2019m looking for here. And so I think it fit me very well because it\u2019s both an affinity group and a pre-professional group\u2014so it aligns with me culturally and what I want to do post graduation. I started off as a general member, which then gave me the opportunity to attend the national convention.<\/p>\n

Knispel:<\/strong> From that moment onward in Boston at the national convention Gabriel Guisado was hooked. He eventually became the president of the campus chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers.<\/p>\n

Guisado:<\/strong> Being able to be at a national convention of that scale and being able to talk to so many companies, so many different professionals and students, and really understanding what it means to have an interview, show your cover letter, give your elevator pitch\u2014those real professional skills\u2014I feel like I would not have that without NSBE, which has helped prepare me to get a job.<\/p>\n

Knispel:<\/strong> As the four are now getting ready to leave Rochester, we asked them for their personal highlights\u2026<\/p>\n

Gordon:<\/strong> A lot of them, as a music student, have to do with different performances, recitals, concerts that I have given\u2026just the huge amount of camaraderie that comes with that\u2014both playing in a group\u2014and exiting the stage door to the cheers and applause of so many classmates and teachers.<\/p>\n

Knispel:<\/strong> But one memory, says Benton Gordon, is much simpler and has nothing to do with music.<\/p>\n

Gordon:<\/strong> Back in my first year the church that some of my friends and I attended was just a couple of miles from school. So the fall we would walk back from church to Eastman, about a two mile walk along East Avenue. On one particular day we were walking down and there were these huge piles of leaves that people had raked off their lawns. So we decided to jump in them. One of my favorite photos from that\u2014four of my friends, you can see them lying in a leave pile, but I am not there. So one of my friends drew a circle around the place where I had been and wrote my name because I had successfully hidden myself in the leaves. That\u2019 just one of my most cherished memories.<\/p>\n

Knispel:<\/strong> To some, Rochester proved a chance to discover new talents\u2026.Beatriz Gil never thought she\u2019d actually become so smitten with research..<\/p>\n

Gil:<\/strong> I came here and I had the opportunity to do research for professor (Hein) Goemans the political science department. [I am] completely in love with him. He\u2019s the best professor I\u2019ve ever met\u2014so motivated, so in love with what he does and his research. And he made me realize how research could be something very interesting and that I could also fall in love with. I did research for one year for him and then I have now finished my honors thesis for political science and I know 100 percent I wouldn\u2019t have been able to do it without his motivation since the start.<\/p>\n

Knispel: <\/strong>Meanwhile, for Gillian Gingher going to school here seemed in a way destined, long before she was even born\u2026<\/p>\n

Gingher:<\/strong> Well, my parents are alumni actually. They met in Slater, which is one of the upper classmen housing. It is no longer new and shiny like it was in the 80s when they met there. But I actually didn\u2019t want to come to the university because they went here. I wanted my own spot.<\/p>\n

Knispel:<\/strong> But once Gillian walked a bit around campus she changed her mind.<\/p>\n

Gingher:<\/strong> This place\u2014it basically grew my parents, at least in an undergraduate capacity. And it just had so many things to offer me personally, as well as the community, the open curriculum\u2014and I just realized, \u201cYeah, this is the perfect place for me. Fine, mom and dad, I\u2019ll go here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Knispel:<\/strong> And now, looking back four years later.. was it the right spot?<\/p>\n

Gingher:<\/strong> Definitely, yes. Definitely, definitely. I mean, I made the best friends ever here and I\u2019ve had the best time. I\u2019m so sad to go. So sad. Even with a bright future\u2014I don\u2019t want to graduate. And I don\u2019t think any of my friends really do yet. We\u2019re kind of getting really nostalgic at this point.<\/p>\n

Knispel:<\/strong> [nat sound alma mater] Well, we hope you\u2019ll all be back for Meliora Weekends! But first it\u2019s time to enjoy your graduation ceremony. [more Genesee song]\u2026and, of course, you don\u2019t have to be an expert to sing the Genesee\u2026<\/p>\n

I\u2019m Sandra Knispel for the Quadcast, the official podcast of the University of Rochester. [nat sound alma mater, applause]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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