2020 Graduates Information Systems & Analytics
ISA Graduates Warmest wishes to you and your families in these trying times. I hope you are all healthy and safe. I know this is not how you planned for your college careers to wrap up, but you are graduating even if it is being done virtually. I want to congratulate you all on your success here at Miami. The next chapter of your lives begins very soon, so take some time to relish in what you have achieved. Soon you will be a proud Miami alumni. Take what you have learned and put it to good use. You are set up for success. You will all take with you from Miami some excellent knowledge and experiences to apply in your future lives and careers. Many of you have heard me say this, but my hope is that the most important thing you have learned is how to learn. The fields of Information Systems and Analytics simply don’t stand still. You will be faced throughout your careers with newness. New problems, new methods, new technologies, new situations…I could go on. The point is, embrace the changes as you they come at you and continue to learn as you go. This is your key to success. I am proud of each of you and wish I could be shaking all of your hands at graduation. Unfortunately, that is not going to be possible. Instead, hug a loved one and thank them for the role they played in getting you to this exciting point in your lives. I hope that many of you can make it back for the in- person celebration being planned for the fall. We can shake hands then. Please do keep in touch as your careers progress. We are peers now and I truly enjoy keeping up with all of you as your careers blossom. Sincerely, Skip
Dear Graduates, As the ISA department admin, I wear several hats. My favorite hat, somewhat askew, wrinkled, and faded, is the one where I get to treat each student that enters our office door as my own child - guiding, conversing, having an ear, giving hope, and assisting when I can. I am especially fond of our 2020 graduates, because you have had to work harder than any previous graduating class since 1834, when Miami University closed for a couple of months due to a cholera outbreak. Stockholm, Sweden, 1912 Olympics, Jim Thorpe represented the USA in track and field competitions. On the second day of competitions, he found that his shoes were missing. This was in an age when a person only had available what they brought with them. These were his only pair of competition shoes. His coach began digging in trash cans and came up with two mismatched, wrong-sized shoes. Those shoes were bound to Jim’s feet. Just a few short minutes later, Thorpe gold medaled in the high jump and then a couple of hours later went on to win the gold in the 110m hurdles wearing those ill-fitting, track shoes. The overall story is that life will continue to throw hurdles, mountains, & an occasional abyss, that can have the potential to completely undermine everything you’ve worked so incredibly hard toward. These past few months you have had to completely reinvent yourselves overnight and then sustain that new reality. Claim this race and future races as yours and win that gold medal. It’s okay if your metaphorical shoes don’t match. Remember what’s within you and go full forward. It’s what you do with what you’ve learned up to that point that will allow you to reinvent yourself and setting yourself back on the path for success. I am genuinely proud of each of you. Love & Honor, Belinda R. Cross
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