Month at the Museum

Admit It!  It might not always be cool to enjoy learning but it should be.  That’s alumnus Kevin Byrne’s philosophy.  Kevin is currently one of six finalists in the Month at the Museum 2 contest hosted by Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.  If selected, Kevin will spend a month living in the museum, taking in all of its exhibits, visiting with its staff and guests and relaying the experience to the outside world through social media.

Kevin personifies the disparate passions and balanced life that are the hallmark of W&M students: a biology major with an MBA from Northwestern, a cyclist and actor, a thinker and a dreamer.  He’s explored his academic passions (spent two months in the Virginia mountains studying red-backed salamanders) and his personal ones (biked across the country and ran five marathons for the Make-a-Wish Foundation).  He’s worked in admission, theatre (as a tube-talker for the Blue Man Group) and now marketing.  He also enjoys spontaneously dancing in his apartment (sound familiar?  W&M students never erupt in spontaneous dancing right?  Wrong.).  Through this experience he “hopes to remind [himself] to have fun learning every single day.”  No doubt a philosophy he honed at his alma mater.

Vote for Kevin between now and October 3.

Wendy Livingston ’03, M.Ed. ‘09
Senior Assistant Dean of Admission