Who am I?

Hey, everyone. My name is Susannah Parker, and I am new at UMBC this year, a transfer student from a couple of places. I graduated high school in 2004 from Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC, and started as a freshman at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. It was definitely a place where I got what I think a lot of people would consider the "traditional college experience". By that I mean huge student body (upwards of 30,000), frat parties, house parties, very large classes (anywhere from 300-500 students), and, of course, everyone was REALLY into school spirit (Big 10 football...GO BADGERS!). Although that might have been what I thought I wanted to do for my four years in college, it turned out that I was not entirely correct. I did enjoy my time in Madison, but the huge state school was not for me.


After a year and a half, I came home, not knowing what I wanted to do, and decided to take classes at Montgomery College while I figured it out. I stuck with Sociology, my intended major at UW, and got my grades up significantly while living at home. After some serious thinking about where I wanted to go from there, I decided it would be easier (not to mention cheaper for my parents) to go somewhere closer to home, and starting looking into UMD and UMBC. I knew that they were completely different schools, Maryland being much more like Wisconsin that UMBC. After doing some reasearch on both, I realized that maybe it was time to try something totally different than what I had already done. I chose to transfer to UMBC in the hope that a smaller student body and a campus not located in the midst of a total college town would help me get past all the novelties of so-called "college life" and get down to business. Or whatever you want to call going to class and eventually getting my BA.


On an entirely different note, the picture on the right is from a trip I took over the summer to San Francisco. I was walking down Haight street and saw the awesome graffiti and there just so happened to be an old purple VW Beetle sitting right in front of it. I thought it was an appropriate photo op considering I was wandering around in the hippie/psychadelic capital of the U.S, so I snapped a picture. It also happens to be my current Facebook picture because I like it so much.

Here is a link to Facebook.
Because I know most of you are on it, and if you aren't, you should know that it's a great way to connect with people at your school, in your area, or just friends you don't get to see very often.