Advice from Alumni

The NMT Program at Penn State is of quite high quality. I was challenged to excel in a professional \'no nonsense\' manner and rose to the occasion alongside my classmates and amongst the top of my class. Six months, several interviews, and a handful of resumés later, I decided that working as a waiter despite several years of education and a heavy exposure to a wide variety of cultures is not the most fulfilling or opportune way of earning capital at this stage of my life. As such, while continuing to remain open, interested, and proactive toward finding work as a nanotech-technician, I have decided to live as a starving artist. I have moved from Philadelphia to New Orleans, and foresee time spent in San Francisco and Portland before long. The great irony is that one of the primary ways in which I hope to earn capital during this time of my life is through selling posters created via spraypainting over hand-cut stencils. The Xacto knife becomes my e-beam writer, the stecil is my mask, poster paper is my substrate, and cans of spraypaint are deposition tools.

Aleister Mraz,
Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus
2010