Recent Grad Blogs

Whether you are starting an entry-level job or enrolling in graduate school, life after college can be both exciting and challenging. The Alumni Association provides all U-M grads with a variety of networking and career services to help you make the transition from campus life to wherever your U-M degree may take you.
Remember you are not alone in your experiences. Read about how other recent U-M graduates (2001-2007) are navigating through life after U-M by checking out their personal blogs.

Meet our Bloggers

  • Corey Fernandez, 01, is a leadership director at the University of Texas-Austin.
  • Uma Subramanian, ’01, works for Northrop Grumman in systems engineering and business development on the Crew Exploration Vehicle program, the next generation human space program. She is also the immediate past president of the U of M Club of Los Angeles.
  • Evia Cherk, ’04, is an industrial engineer for Boeing.
  • Frances Benson, ’03, was an auditor on the General Motors account for Deloitte and Touche. She currently is an internal auditor with Pulte Homes at the corporate offices in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
  • Matt Bohlen, ’03, is an assistant alumni relations officer for UM-Flint and U of M Club of Flint board member.
  • Michael Mayer, ’03, is in his final year of law school in Chicago.
  • Megan Krone, ’03, is the assistant aquatics director for a Jewish Community Center in Chicago.
  • Andrea Novelly, ’03, works for Teach for America in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  • Nicholas Chang, ’03, is working at Citigroup in New York as a financial analyst. He also continues to work for his collegiate employer, Red Bull.
  • Purvi Ravani, ’03, was a former diamond for Tiffany and Company and is currently enrolled in the master’s of business administration at U-M.
  • Stacy Agosto, ’04, is working for a business litigation firm in Chicago as a marketing coordinator.
  • Emily Cislo, ’04, is a mechanical engineer at Raytheon Company in Boston area.
  • Jeremy Peters, ’04, works for a recording company in music licensing and publishing.
  • Jessica Smith, ’04, is a legal assistant in a law firm in Chicago. She hopes to take the LSAT and continue her education at law school.
  • Jason Benedict, ’05, is a second-year Michigan State law school student pursing patent law. He was a clerk for an intellectual property law firm in Troy, Michigan.
  • Mike Forster, ’05, is a paralegal. He will be applying to law schools.
  • SiRui Huang, ’05, is a financial analyst for a telecommunications company.
  • Katie Karlson, ’05, is a graduate student in journalism at NYU.
  • Lindsay Reese, ’05, is working on a doctorate in neuroscience. She is studying early molecular mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease at the University of Texas medical branch in Galveston, Texas.
  • Brian Reiche, ’05, recently joined the Engineering Leadership Program at National Instruments in Austin, Texas.
  • Stephanie Duchaine, ’06, is an AdWords coordinator for Google Inc. in Ann Arbor.
  • Allison Mileo Gorsuch, ’06, graduated with a degree in American culture. She served a year as an Americorps VISTA in Corvallis, Oregon.
  • Rohin Guha, ’06, is getting his master’s in fine arts at Sarah Lawrence College in New York.
  • Max Holtz, ’06, is working at Sotheby’s Auction House in New York.
  • Maduri Singh, ’06, works for the campus outreach division of the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC.
  • Sunali Wadehra, ’06, is working on her master’s degree at Loyola University through the biology department. She intends on applying to medical school next summer.
  • Stephanie Wilson, ’06, is a publicity assistant for Pantheon Books, a division of Random House in New York.
  • Stephanie Tillman, ’07, works at the Alliance for Microbicide Development in Baltimore, Maryland.