Global Engagement Minor Capstone
Global Engagement Minor Capstone
In the summer of my junior year, I worked as an International Student Orientation (ISO) Intern for the Office of International Student Affairs (OISA). As an ISO intern, I organized and facilitated pre-arrival and orientation programming for incoming international students, helping them adjust to their new life at Wesleyan. One of many events I organized, …
In “Portraits of the Whiteman,” Basso examines the different attempts of the Western Apaches to understand Anglo-Americans. They do so by trying to make sense of the behavior of Anglo Americans by imitating them and creating other forms of verbal humor. Moreover, Basso sheds light on the distinctive manner in which Apaches navigate interactions with …
Boba with international students is an event I’ve attended almost every year during my time at Wesleyan. International students come together from all over campus to chat and catch-up over boba, me being one of them. As soon as I entered the room, I found myself naturally joining a small group of familiar faces. In …
This was my application for the Global Engagement Minor from my sophomore year. While I no longer feel a strong desire to contribute to the world through the field of microbiology, my goal of contributing to solving a global problem, even at a small scale, still remains true. Moreover, I strongly believe that diverse teams …
Reading my reflection on this talk two years later, it prompted me to think about the conversations I have with my international student peers. We often find ourselves talking about the ways in which the school supports us as international students, but also what the school gains by having these international students at their school. …
