Matthew Engel

Today was truly a special day. I got to spend it with the people I love most and be in close contact with those who have seen me through my graduate education. If you can even call it that, my experience at Stony Brook has been much more that just a simple or traditional education – it has been an overall growing period, a true time of learning and working towards something meaningful. Much has been accomplished outside of the classroom, breaking the traditional academic stereotype. I have learned alot about people and built several new and meaningful relationships. Working with fresh colleagues, experiencing successes and failures, making connections, exploring new career paths and challenging myself have all been an important part of the last year.

Stony Brook  University – Graduation 2008, MS