He graduated from Syracuse in the Whitman School’s inaugural year, 2005. Cykiert was a stubborn student; always asking questions, even after the bell rung. David credits the Syracuse (and Whitman, especially) faculty and their collective and aggregate patience for entertaining his probing, which, in turn, gave him the answers he needed to make an imprint in his various professional endeavors and the confidence and comfort to never stop asking questions, such as: “How can he ever repay them?”