Business students graduate
Today at Hamilton Place, students from the DeGroote School of Business will graduate. Degrees will be conferred on 68 students: 53 from the undergraduate commerce program, 13 from the MBA program and 2 from the PhD program. Two representatives from DeGroote's class of 2009 are profiled below.
Isma Nasim
While still in high school, Isma Nasim was diagnosed with a visual impairment. “My retina has scarring on it, so I can only see from certain parts of my eye,” she explains. “I can't see by simply looking straight ahead, so I have learned to move my eyes around in order to get the whole picture.”
Despite her low vision, visual impairment has not stopped Nasim from living her life.
Today, she will accept her Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree from the DeGroote School of Business with a minor in economics after six years of part-time study.
Julie Carruthers
After eight gruelling years, Julie Carruthers will don that coveted cap and gown. “I remember the day I registered as a part-time student at McMaster,” she reminisces. “I was taking a variety of courses because I didn't know what direction I wanted to go in. After all of this though, I never would have guessed I would graduate with a Bachelor of Commerce degree!”
Carruthers, a certified medical laboratory technologist, works on campus as a research coordinator at the McMaster University Transfusion Research Program. She decided to forgo the obvious educational path of science and pursue business studies at the DeGroote School of Business. Now eight years later, Carruthers is able to apply her course knowledge to her job and has since taken on more responsibilities at work, including managing accounts, recruitment, and creating and maintaining budgets.
