Student Essays, Opinions & Other Insights on a Sustainable UMD 2013-2014 Academic Year | Page 16

Megan Von Bargen

Major: Chemical Engineering, and
Sustainability Studies minor
Class of 2017

I signed up for this pledge because I want to
make a difference in the world. Every day
people complete actions that hurt this
planet and they don’t even realize it. Even
small differences make a difference. Signing
this pledge would ensure that I would
become more conscious of my decisions,
and focusing on each decision for a week at
a time made them automatic decisions that I will continue to make.
Sustainability is important to me because I want to work as a chemical engineer making processes or
machinery more sustainable when I graduate. I am minoring in Sustainability Studies in order to focus my
education here at the University of Maryland. Growing up, I lived in suburbs with concrete roads and a single
park down the street. Each YX\