I think the purpose of life is to keep learning and teaching enables me to do that
We are not too big and we’re not too small So there really is a sense here that you have a lot of possibilities
But it also feels like a small campus. You get to know people. It’s a big family here.
We’re training students
We’re training them in being more connected to their communities.
Students engage with the faculty. They can get a lot of one-on-one discussion
You know that you played a role in that person’s development and their learning, their education.
They take a little bit of you away with them. They take a little bit of the University of Maine away with them, and then… bang!
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This facility will allow us to help industry in Maine and across the country and the world develop new technologies
This technology is one of, I would say, the two most promising ones for actually being able to decelerate manned spacecraft going to Mars
and the University of Maine will play a small role in that some day by virtue of the work we’re doing here
If we want to have a certain type of tomorrow we need to understand how the system works.
So we get out here and we train people on how to approach those questions and to answer those questions
so that we can make informed decisions about what tomorrow will actually look like.
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The atmosphere here on campus is awesome. Like half the reason I chose UMaine is because of its atmosphere
There’s definitely a huge family atmosphere and there’s a collective drive for success
If you like rock climbing or hiking there’s a club for that.
If you like frisbee there’s a club for that.
Even if you like eating cheese, there’s a club for that.
I came here because I thought that I could do everything I wanted, and I can do even more than what I was expecting.
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Every choice you make and every decision you make especially at this very, very important part of your life
is going to be influential in what tomorrow will bring for you.
Try to find work that has purpose and meaning and that you can be proud of at the end of your career
It’s about not what you learn but how you learn.Taking two things that you know nothing about and creating something different
This is what the world of tomorrow is going to be. And that’s why school is so important.
It’s not what the details are, but what do you do with them.
One of the benefits of going to the University of Maine are the core values of the University that I try to take with me today.
And those are compassion, integrity and just an enriching environment that helps develop and support students.
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