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The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University May 22, 2006 | Vol. 35 No. 35
 
Team '06 in the Batter's Box

Athletes often say they'll hold off on reliving moments and career accomplishments until after they retire. Before the first pitch was thrown at last week's Senior Week Orioles game, The Gazette sat down with a lineup of soon-to-be-graduates to ask them: Now that your Hopkins career is coming to an end, what moment or milestone will you most reflect on?
—Greg Rienzi

"When I decided to change my major to psychology from biology. I'm very passionate about helping children, and I've volunteered in pediatric emergency rooms and after-school programs. I think psychology gave me an access to medicine, and that has helped me because now I want to have a career in pediatrics."
— Nicole Davidson, Elmont, N.Y., Psychology

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"When I finally made the dean's list [laughs]. Actually, it was coming here [to this game]. I was at an Orioles game my freshman year with some of my new friends. And now, what a great way to end my career, at another Orioles game."
— Tashell Thompson, Baltimore, Sociology

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"Putting up a 14-foot-high, 28-foot-wide painted scenic wall with three rotating elements for a play. I most remember doing that because nobody thought I could do it. And I did it anyway!"
— Karen Starr, Malden, Mass., International Studies

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"Getting into graduate school [Stanford]."
— Benjamin Jackson, Wilmette, Ill., Mechanical Engineering

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"Putting up a play I wrote this past winter. It was very exciting. It was a play I wrote for an advanced playwriting class, and the Witness Theatre put it on."
— Benjamin Kingsland, Gaithersburg, Md., Writing Seminars

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"Coming from New York I thought no other city would be livable for me, but living in Baltimore made me learn that I can live elsewhere. Really, I love Baltimore! I really do."
— Demetra Mileos, Riverdale, N.Y., International Studies

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"Going out for and joining a sorority [Kappa Kappa Gamma] and then later becoming president of it. That was a big moment for me. It's been, overall, the best thing I've done at Hopkins. I have a million-and-five memories from my time with my sisters."
— Melissa O'Berg, Brookline, Mass., English

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"Senior design project. I'm a mechanical engineering major, and we integrated an infinitely variable transmission into a wind generator. Sounds very complicated, but we got it to work."
— Kwame Small, Spring Valley, N.Y., Mechanical Engineering

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"When I visited Johns Hopkins, I was really scared. Everyone says how tough it will be. I wanted to leave as soon as I got here. And now I'm done and I walk across campus and I can say, 'I did this.' Hopkins is not as bad as it seems, and now it's over."
— Farnaz Faiaz, Houston, Public Health Studies

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