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Laurel Jobe, left, and peer researchers Jessica Wicker and Stephanie Swart present 2018 San Salvador research at the Southern Regional Honors Council conference held in March 2019 at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis. Photo submitted by Laurel Jobe.<\/p><\/div>\n

Laurel Jobe was on a study abroad trip with the Honors College when the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga began responding to COVID-19.<\/p>\n

The spring break trip was her third time visiting the Gerace Research Centre<\/a> on San Salvador, an island in the Bahamas. Her most recent trip had been to conduct research at the field station for her Brock Scholar<\/a> and Environmental Science thesis.<\/p>\n

As a spring 2020 graduate, spring was her last semester on campus. Soon after her return from San Salvador, campus transitioned to online learning.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t really have a \u2018goodbye\u2019 whatsoever,\u201d Jobe explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrustrating\u201d is the word she used to describe the experience of switching to an online-only format for her upper-division lab courses in ornithology, ichthyology and cancer biology. Ask her about her spring break trip to the Gerace Research Centre\u2014and the two subsequent trips during her undergraduate studies\u2014and her eyes light up.<\/p>\n

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Jobe snorkels in the crystal-blue waters off the coast of San Salvador Island. Photo courtesy of Laurel Jobe<\/p><\/div>\n

She first joined a group of Honors College students her sophomore year for a trip to the Gerace Research Centre when the group worked to update an outdated field guide about the pristine location. Although it\u2019s undeveloped, the environment had changed some from weather events since the decades-old guide was created.<\/p>\n

The pools of water that dot the island caught her attention, so she returned a second time, joined by two research assistants\u2014one from UTC and another from a university in the Bahamas\u2014to study the pools for her thesis.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always been interested in marine and fresh water ecology,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s why she was planning to begin and had been accepted to a graduate program at the University of Miami in fall 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cWas\u201d is the keyword. When the University of Miami announced it was going online, she put those plans on hold.<\/p>\n

\u201cI made the decision to not go forward with graduate school for the fall because I didn\u2019t feel like I would be able to get as much out of it with the nature of online courses, especially for a specialized master\u2019s degree,\u201d Jobe explained.<\/p>\n

Instead of pursuing a dual-degree program for a Master\u2019s of Professional Studies in Marine Biology and a law degree she\u2019s pivoted. For now, she\u2019s searching for entry-level science jobs across the country. But that doesn\u2019t mean she\u2019s lost sight of her dream for a career in environmental law.<\/p>\n

A flexible mindset is something she emphasized when offering advice to incoming students.<\/p>\n

\u201cKeep your options open,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t go into your freshman year with a one-track mindset. The best thing you can do, even if you have a dream or goal, is to follow it, definitely. But if there are twists and turns and you don\u2019t end up exactly where you thought you would, that is totally fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Define you<\/h3>\n
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Recently, Jenelle Pierce has turned to painting and other creative hobbies as a way to de-stress. Photo submitted by Jenelle Pierce.<\/p><\/div>\n

Now that she\u2019s a graduate, Jenelle Pierce offered advice for freshmen as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cStart thinking about what you want to do, and not what you\u2019re supposed to do,\u201d said Pierce, an entrepreneurship major.<\/p>\n

She came to UTC as a business major because everyone told her that was a good degree to have, but it wasn\u2019t until her junior year that she started digging in to find what it was about business that she enjoyed.<\/p>\n

During her final semester, she interned with the JumpFund<\/a>, a women-led investment fund that provides growth capital to women-led ventures in the Southeast. Since graduating, she\u2019s continued working part-time for the fund, assisting with an assortment of tasks, including managing social media and other communications and marketing projects. All the while she has been developing a passion for small businesses, especially the small-business community in Chattanooga.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat you see with our entrepreneurial ecosystem is that every small business knows each other,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

A native of Clarksville, Tennessee, Pierce graduated in May and compares that experience to an \u201cidentity crisis.\u201d Until now, a huge part of who she is has been her identity as a student, she explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow I\u2019m a real adult and I have to be me, and trying to figure that out on top of the whole world going through an identity crisis\u2014we\u2019re all feeling it. We\u2019re all just trying to figure it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now that she\u2019s no longer a student, Jobe has started painting and playing music, interests she set aside while in school. Her creative projects started out as a way to cope with the stress of graduating and starting a career, all intensified by COVID-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, it is just something that I can do where I\u2019m not checking my emails. I don\u2019t have to be productive for any reason. I just like painting. It\u2019s not for any one thing,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just time I take for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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