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As graduation approaches, many Texas A&M seniors are preparing themselves to enter the workforce. According to a survey taken by the A&M Career Center, 54 percent of Aggies graduate with career offers. Those who are not pursuing further education will soon begin their first full-time jobs, which they have been working toward since starting their education. A&M offers a variety of resources for Aggies in search of a job through the Career Center, which includes HireAggies, advising and both spri...

Texas A&M University at Qatar awards 107 engineering degrees  07 May 2021 - 11:39 Women made up 57 percent of the graduating class, while graduates represented 19 nationalities. The Peninsula Texas A&M University at Qatar, a Qatar Foundation partner university, graduated 107 engineers yesterday. The Class of 2021 included 89 Aggies who received bachelor’s degrees in chemical engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and petroleum engineering. Twenty-two graduates were rec...

After placing second at the Association of College Unions International Collegiate National Championship in 2019 and 2018, the Texas A&M trap and skeet club won the national title this past March despite the challenges faced due to COVID-19. Established in 1971, the trap and skeet club aims to unite Aggies with a shared passion of clay target shooting sports, according to its website. Incoming co-president of the club and industrial distribution senior Dominic Gross has been a member of the tea...

I’ve never been one for jewelry. Unless you count the puka shell necklace I wore all of the time circa 2010 (don’t judge me, I was 11), I’ve never really worn accessories of any kind. That will change this weekend. This Saturday, I’ll get my Aggie Ring and will finally match my cousins and so many of my friends who cherish the benefits of the Aggie Network. I have a lot of people to thank for this milestone, the first of which is my parents. Throughout my teenage years, I wa...

When I was five, I wanted to go to Penn State because it was my mom’s alma mater and the only college rural-Pennsylvanian-little-me had ever heard of. When I was 10, I wanted to go to Harvard because I may or may not have been influenced by a certain Reese Witherspoon movie. When I was 14, I wanted to go to Stanford Law School to become the next President of the United States. By the time my senior year of high school came around, I was living in England and felt like the world was at my d...

A historic winter storm hit Texas the week of Feb. 14, leaving several communities with a multitude of problems from loss of power to severe water damage. Among communities across the state affected by the storm, several Texas A&M students residing in Bryan-College Station faced black-outs, boil water notices and extensive water damage to their homes. The week-long freeze resulted in some of these students being forced to relocate, as their college homes underwent flooding due to bursting pipes...