Graduate Student Stories Transcripts: Ana Sanchez-Rivera
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I come from Puerto Rico, and I did my master's in Upstate New York, so I needed something a little bit more, uh, in the middle of that, and the weather was important for me.
Graduate Student Stories Transcripts: Dana Arbaugh Varona
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Around the eighth grade, I was kind of like a lackluster student and, you know, like a, a B student. I wasn't that into school or anything. But I had a really amazing experience in my middle school band. And I had a band director that had inspired to do a better job and to push myself to be better and he got me paired up with a professional horn player who attended Julliard and she was a great, you know, positive female role model for me.
Graduate Student Stories Transcripts: Jessica Stern
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When I was looking at grad programs, I really didn't want a place where it was going to feel cutthroat competitive. I wanted a group of people who I could work well with and make friends for life with and I feel like I have that here.
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Graduate Student Stories Transcripts: Matthew Aruch
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I grew up in New York, but I've been living in the Washington, D.C./Maryland/ Virginia, area since about 2005.
My degree is in International Education Policy, but I work with the Engineering School, I work with the Anthropology School.
Maryland really allows you to, sort of, move between and amongst departments and colleagues which I- which I think is- is great for someone like me who likes to do interdisciplinary work.
Graduate Student Stories Transcripts: Nabila Hijazi
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I'm from Syria, and I have been here for almost, like, 29 years. I've always, always loved languages, I wanted to focus on translation, but when I came here, I did not find what I was looking for, so I decided to go into accounting and minor in English.
Graduate Student Stories Transcripts: Rishvi Jayathilake
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I had this like book with me. And one page was like the crime rates (laugh). One page was the weather. And one page was the cost of living. So, I didn't want to go to a place with an extreme winter. I also wanted to still see winter, because I had never seen snow before. So, I thought like this area would be like the kind of the best balance, of because I was looking at the the ranks for the universities as well in chemistry.
Graduate Student Stories Transcripts: Ross McCool
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I don't know exactly what got me into music, but I've been messing around with music since I was about five and its been so interesting to me since then that unsurprisingly, since I was 10 and started the trumpet, I've just been encapsulated. For as large of a student body as it is, it's, you s-, you see familiar faces when you're walking around every day.