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CU-Boulder Alumni Survey, 2007

Winners of the 2007 Alumni Survey Awards

Two students who completed the CU-Boulder Alumni Survey were randomly selected to receive $1000 cash awards for completing the survey. Four additional students were randomly selected to receive $500 cash awards. The six lucky winners of each of these awards are listed below, along with information on their degree level and program.

The two $1000 award winners:

• Katherine Sauer, Master's in Journalism; PhD. in Economics
• Yu Long, Master's in Telecommunications

The four $500 award winners:

• Jarrod Seaton, Bachelor's in Mathematics
• Samantha Minnis, Bachelor's in International Affairs
• Jamie Johnson, Bachelor's in Mathematics
• Robert Beetem, Bachelor's in Aerospace Engineering

We asked all of the cash award winners for permission to post any additional information they would like to tell us about themselves and their plans for the cash awards they received. Two of the four $500 winners responded with the following:

Jarrod Seaton:
"Microsoft is the most intimidating company I’ve interviewed with. To get this position I was flown into Redmond and interviewed by 6 people. Most of them asked complex technical questions that tested my knowledge and experience. And, I’m very happy to say, almost every technical question they asked was easily answered as it was directly covered by classes I took at CU.
I’m not being generous in that comment either, as some of the questions were phrased almost verbatim from the ones assigned in my C++ classes.
I’ll be using the money to visit my friends and family in Colorado this winter."

Samantha Minnis:
"The cash award came at the most opportune time! After paying medical bill after medical bill for chemo to treat my recently diagnosed lymphoma, the cash award was something that I chose to use for FUN! I used it as part of a downpayment on a new car since my old one just died! I was thrilled to have the extra money! My experience at CU was one that I'll never be able to re-create. I am using my degree in International Affairs in a 'round-about' way. I teach the first grade and with my foreign language experience from CU, I have all of the ELA students pushed into my classroom so that I'm able to communicate with them and the parents. My foundation I built at CU has been most beneficial in my work! Thank you so much for the award and, like I said earlier, it came at a perfect time!"

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