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When I first visited UMBC on Just for Juniors day in 2009, months before I started applying to schoo...
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Refusing to go down the soul-scrapping financial adviser track, I graduated and fell back to my yout...
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In high school, I was a science nerd with little common sense and even fewer social skills. When I ...
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When I was on my epic college search, my sister told me she knew the perfect one for me - UMBC. I vi...
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I have two degrees from UMBC. I transferred to UMBC in the fall of 1995 with 90 credits with the sp...
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While a student at UMBC, I had the pleasure of serving on theExecutive Committee of the National Boa...
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In 1981, rumors that the State Board of Higher Education was planning to close UMBC and turn the cam...
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I graduated only a year ago from UMBC and found that the Global Studies program coupled with volunte...
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My UMBC experience has been an on-going one full of growth, learning from amazing colleagues and men...
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We've got some pretty interesting stuff buried in our archives, and in honor of the 50th, we're dust...
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I met my wife Sena at UMBC and we got married in 2008. I'm glad I've been able to stay involved and ...
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During my final year at UMBC, I worked with the Student Events Board as a Design and Marketing Direc...
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I met my husband, Thomas Gregg, at UMBC in December 2002, when I was a graduate student and he was a...
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My UMBC story starts and ends with the professors that were there for me in so many different ways. ...
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Where Are You Now?

Alumni, we want to know where your path has led since graduation. What has your career been like? Do you have a family? Where have you traveled? Read about the paths other Retrievers have taken, and don't forget to submit your own story!

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Throughout the Years

Take a walk through this timeline of significant milestones in UMBC’s history and you’ll see moments of grit and greatness all along the way.

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