THE JOB
A NEW LATITUDE
BY REGINA LIMCAOCO ' 17
Jocelyn Lo sets her sights high
Consider your first cellphone — it may have had the heft of brick , a pull-out antenna or — gasp !— actual buttons . Most of us think of those devices as reminders of a world long past , but for Jocelyn Lo ’ 01 , MS ’ 02 , they marked the start of her life ’ s purpose .
“ I was absolutely fascinated by cellphones ,” says Lo . “ How they worked , how they looked . I really wanted to be a part of that .”
Lo ’ s dreams of engineering seemed a world away from where she grew up in Hong Kong , but when she and her sister came to the states to attend high school , that world opened up and set her on a course for UC San Diego ’ s Revelle College and the Jacobs School of Engineering . By the time she graduated , she had attended enough campus career fairs to land an internship at the leading cellphone company at the time : Nokia .
42 TRITON | WINTER 2018
Photo : Alan Decker