Tiffany Lynch-Faulkner is a sophomore from Wilmington, DE who chose to come to UD in part because she was comfortable with it being close to home. Although she had interest in how the brain works in high school (she even completed a two week program at Duke University where she got to dissect brains!), she came to the University of Delaware through the University Studies Program. She says that she wasn’t sure which direction she wanted to focus on, so coming into college undeclared helped her to get her ideas together. She says that just being in the Center for Academic Success building and around others who were unsure about their majors made her feel more calm.

Tiffany recalls her UST advisor (along with the classes she took and the Major Finder website) as being essential in narrowing down that she wanted to declare a Neuroscience major with a Psychology concentration. She declared this at the end of her first year, but is still undecided about a minor. She is currently thinking about Africana Studies, due to a very interactive instructor she had who made her love the subject matter, as well as Women and Gender Studies, due to everything going on in the world right now. She also thinks it would be great to focus specifically on women’s neurological health and wellbeing.

Currently, she loves all of her hands-on Neuroscience classes at UD. She enjoys meeting so many different people and building lifelong connections with roommates, classmates and teachers.  Tiffany is a UST Peer Liaison, a member of the Black Student Association (BSA), and works at the Little Bob gym. She plans to get her Master’s Degree and would love to do clinical research on neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s and dementia.

Tiffany has a lot of great advice for University Studies students:

1. It is important to work closely with your advisor- they are your best resource!
2. Try things you may not be comfortable with because those might be the things that you end up loving and becoming a part of your undergraduate path.
3. Get engaged in your classes!
4. It is good to hear other’s experiences, but don’t base your experience solely off of everyone else’s. For example, don’t feel like you are behind or something you are doing is wrong based on what your peers and friends are doing.
5. It is important to go with the flow and take your time. Don’t be scared to declare your major a little later than expected or not know what your next move is.