Thursday, February 12, 2015

Myra Boenke

Engineering

Williston, VT

myra1@cal.berkeley.edu


Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
BellLabs optical cable; Princeton; divorce; UCBerkeley; IBM GaAs lasers; married; 2 sons; IBM Foundry RF Silicon, soon to be GlobalFoundries

Provide your favorite memory of your time at Cornell.
Sliding down the rocks and jumping off the cliff in the gorge.  Walking across a frozen Beebe Lake. Wandering the Herb Garden and Arboretum

Which piece of advice or information acquired at Cornell turned out to be completely WRONG?
If you don't go straight to grad school you will never go back.

What advice would you give to a member of the Class of 2018?
Get involved in on-campus groups and/or research projects.

What are you looking forward to at our 35th reunion in June, 2015?
Fellowship receptions and exploring outdoors