Check out these amazing graduation pictures!

We love how creative our students are getting with their senior and graduation shots. Below are just three examples. Got some creative pictures of your own? You can send them to us via Twitter @UCSDJacobs, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/UCSDJacobs or email ipatrin AT ucsd DOT edu.
Congratulations graduates!

A group of Jacobs School students celebrates their graduation at La Jolla Shores.

TESC President Pooja Makhijani tries out her wizarding skills on classmate Akshay Maheshwari.

Structural engineering major Sam Sun poses at the bottom of the Scripps Pier.

Check out this amazing graduation cap art by one of our students

We love this graduation cap art crafted by TESC President Pooja Makhijani out of felt, pompoms and puffy paint! It brings together the Fallen Star, a sculpture set on the 7th floor of EBU I (Jacobs Hall), with the Pixar movie "Up." The Fallen Star, a small cottage perched at an angle on the top of the building, is meant to convey the feeling of disorientation that students experience when they first arrive to a new campus. In "Up," a retired widower ties up thousands of balloons to his home, also a small cottage, and takes off for a region of South America he had always wanted to visit with his wife. Adventures ensue, featuring a young Wilderness Explorer who accidentally gets pulled into the man's journey, several talking dogs and an endangered bird.

Makhijani's next adventure is more defined: she is heading out to medical school at Stanford. You can learn more about her here.

Outstanding graduate: Pooja Makhijani

When Pooja Makhijani first visited the Jacobs School, she didn’t know if she wanted to be an engineer. “I went on lab tours during my visit and was amazed that professors were willing to mentor me that fall,” she recalls. Makhijani signed up for bioengineering. A Jacobs Scholar, she took an unpaid research position her first year and worked on an independent project, which became the seed for her senior thesis. She served as TESC president in her junior and senior years. She created a peer mentorship program and spearheaded the creation of a scholarship fund to help students attend conferences and present their work. She plans to attend medical school at the Mayo Clinic this fall. 

More outstanding grads here.