Mudd Chats

Career Paths

• TikTok and YouTube: Communicating Science to the Public with Porter Adams ’18 and Prof. Mohamed Omar
• Demystifying US National Labs with Laura Xin Zhang ’16 and Ashka Shah ’16
• What Skills Did I “Actually” Use After I Graduated? with Nicole Sampson ’85 and Joshua Vasquez ’14
• Aerospace After Mudd with Wenkai Qin ’18 and Zach Shattler ’18
• De-Mystifying and De-Stressing the Senior-Year Job Hunt with Julio Medina ’18 and Yashas Hegde ’18
• Non-Technical Skills for Career Success with Scott Park ’87 and Prof. Kash Gokli
• Traveling/Living/Working Overseas with Ron Roth ’69 and Prof. Liz Orwin ’95
• What Does a Software Engineering Exec Actually Do? with Neil Laughlin ’96
• What College Doesn’t Teach You About Launching Your Career with Olivia Warren ’14
• What are my interdisciplinary career options after Mudd? with Grace Credo ’96 and Prof. Hal van Ryswyk
• Life and Work in Software: Juggling Career Goals, Transitions, and a Full Life with Amberlee Baugus ’18 and Simon Huynh ’99
• Two Paths to Careers in Laboratory Automation with Eun Bin Go ’15 and Andrey Shur ’11
• Mudders in Aviation with Johnson Qu ’12 and Yukun Lin ’15
• Music Technology: Putting the Engineering in Audio Engineering with Rosh Lam ’17 and Chris Apple ’15
• Post-Mudd for Chem & Bio Majors with Eun Bin Go ’15 and Neil Laughlin ’96
• Why your HMC education matters in today’s job market with Jerome Jackson ’76 and Grace Credo ’96

Climate, Environment, Sustainability

• Promoting Climate Impact with Cassie Borish ’11 and Prof. Paul Steinberg
• Policy & Environment with Lydia Jahl ’14 and Austin Brown ’02

Financial Literacy

• Compensation Packages: Negotiating and Evaluating Options with Matthew Dharm ’98 and Natasha Jones
• The Financial Side of a PhD Program with Emily Roberts ’07 and Eun Bin Go ’15
• Managing Student Loan Debt in a Scary Economy with Mary Moore-Simmons ’10
• Financial Literacy with Jack In-Jay Houng ’92 and Gene Van Nostern ’92
• Compensation Packages: Negotiating and Evaluation Options with Matthew Dharm ’98 and Jason Fredrickson ’99

Graduate School

• Grad School in Tech-Adjacent Fields with Bryce McLaughlin ’18 and Izzy Jones ’19
• (You Don’t Have To) Make Up Your Mind: Grad School versus Industry After Mudd with Neil Laughlin ‘96 and Kacyn Fujii ’13
• Grad school? Making the choice and what to expect with Carla Becker ’18 and Marissa Lee ’18

Healthcare

• Career Alternatives to an MD: Grad School vs. Industry in Healthcare with Jason Goldberg ’94 and Erika Strandberg ’05
• MD(/PhD): Is it right for me? with Hayden Hatch ’12 and Bella Lee ’18
• From Mudd to Medical School with Hayden Hatch ’12 and Sophie Parks ’14

Networking and Relationships

• Working World Relationships: What’s So Different? with Trevin Murakami ’09 and Michael Braly ’09
• Navigating the Workplace and Technical Leadership as an Underrepresented Minority with Jerome Jackson ’76 and Kharisma Calderon ’17
• Making Connections in Professional and Scientific Societies with Betty Edwards Johnson ‘78
• How to Make Networking Work for You with Betty Edwards Johnson ’78 and Harry Cooke ’17

Non-Traditional Career Paths

• Systematic Versus Disruptive Post Mudd Career Routes with Ramita Kondepudi ’18, Darwin D. Popenoe ’85 and Yesh Subramanian ’85/86
• From Peace Corps to Wharton, How Did We Get Here? With Maurice Clifton ’85 and Rob Little ’06
• Legal Careers After Mudd with David Chan ‘99, Julio Loza ’93 and Bailey Meyer ’18
• Economics & Entrepreneurism Happy Hour with Christopher L. Strieter ’10 and Gary R. Evans
• Second Act: How two Mudders turned their love of music into onstage and offstage performing arts careers with Gregory Rae ’00 and Jennifer Lindsay ’02
• Teaching Science in K-12 Classrooms with Corwyn (Cory) Evans-Klock ’13 and Sarena Tran ’13
• Business School and Beyond – How to Get an MBA and Careers in Financial Services and Consulting Afterwards with Russell Hamilton ’94 and Marisa Kager ’17
• “Just sit in an air-conditioned room and talk about math” – Why Tutoring is the Best Job (for Mudders) in the World with Rafer Dannenhauer ’13 and David Liao ’05
• Jobs Outside of the Mudd Sphere: Non-Traditional Career Routes are Valuable and Attainable with Gigi ’18 and Bo Adams ’18
• When Your Day Ends, Ours Begin: Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner with Eucen Fu ’98 and Izzy Lee ’16

Self Care/Wellness

• Under Pressure: From Overwhelm to Ease with Elaine Oyang ’11 and Suzie Gruber ’87
• Work/Life Balance At & Beyond Mudd with Victor Bhattacharyya ’15
• Self Care at Mudd with Izzy Lee ’16 and Shailee Samar ’18
• Wellness with Tish (Poland) Berge ’92 and Jan Kooy ’94

Values and Impact

• Finding a Job that Aligns with Your Values with Matthew Dharm ’98 and Jamey Minnis ’99
• Building Good Products for Good Reason with Philip Cheung ’96 and Jon Switkes ’97
• Building Bridges: Giving Back To Your Community Post-Graduation with Heather Young ’16 and Joyce Yang ’16
• Social Impact Career Paths Post-Mudd with Jackie Lam ’10 and Emma Zang-Schwartz ’15
• Large corporation or small business. What are the trade-offs and which is right for you? with Kevin Alley ’05 and Karen Lee ’05
• The HMC Honor Code: Past and Present with Liz Orwin ’95 and Gregory Rae ’00
• Ethics in Your Career with Matthew Dharm ’98 and Daniel Bashir ’18
• Impact Conscious Tech After Mudd with Skyler Sinclair ’17 and David Tenorio ’17
• Science Policy: Using a STEM Degree for Public Good with Paul Jerger ’15 and Tamara Savage ’15