UWG Stories
Blake Lord
“I chose a university with professors who are willing to be available and continue to work with their students until an understanding is achieved,” said Lord.
Many students enter college with no idea of the direction they intend take. Blake Lord was an exception.
“I first started thinking about pharmaceuticals as a career at the age of 12 or 13,” said Lord, a University of West Georgia alum. He started working at a pharmacy at age 16 and has been passionate about it ever since.
Combining passion with an extraordinary effort was the combination Lord needed to successfully grasp difficult chemistry principles. Fortunately, he chose UWG to pursue his undergraduate degree, where his professors had a part in that equation.
“I chose a university with professors who are willing to be available and continue to work with their students until an understanding is achieved,” said Lord. “They also cared about me as a person and not just as a student in class.”
Lord’s service on the Student Government Association as president from 2005-06 instilled with him skills that he said will follow him throughout his life. “Skills such as how to be an effective leader and offer guidance without influencing or instilling my own values—these will help me run a successful pharmacy upon completion of pharmacy school.”
Lord, who is currently enrolled in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at Mercer University, credits UWG for his graduate school success. “I am prepared, if not more prepared, than many students starting the same program,” he said. “I am appreciative of the hard work and rigorous projects that professors within the Chemistry Department and others bestowed upon me at UWG.”
He also continues to show his gratitude to and interest in UWG by sitting on the National Alumni Association Board of Trustees, a position to which he was recently elected.
“I can never thank the professors and administrators enough for instilling the university’s core values and principles within me,” Lord concluded. “I owe my dreams coming true to them.”
