I'm a First Generation college student dedicated to bettering the communities that I am a part of. I love classical music, pineapple pizza, running, and, recently, ceramics. I feel “okay” about the cold but make the best of it by doing fun activities outside like ice skating on Occom Pond and sledding down the golf course. The reason that I chose Dartmouth is because of its people and the engaging atmosphere that we learn in. Proud to be an immigrant.
Academic Program
English and Government, with a minor in African African-American Studies
Analyze the relationship between power, knowledge, and space. Super cool fun class which introduced me to the Global South and writers from it. Highly recommend, Prof Kindervater is awesome!
Imagine what Shonda Rhimes/any fiction writer does and that’s what I’m learning how to do. I write my own stories and develop them, bettering my descriptive and writing skills. For my final projects, I submitted two short stories which I crafted. At first, it was challenging because I had no idea what I would write about, but enjoyed the creative process.
In this course, we examine the relationship between politics and the novel in order to understand how novels have affected Africa. The course employs a comparative method of looking at the novels, employing other fields of study as a method of study. The readings were incredibly interesting and complex as we tried to unpack the politics of
Africa through novels.
This past weekend I went to Boston, Massachusetts to visit some friends. I was excited to leave Hanover or as I like to call it, the middle of the woods. I -- along with many others -- jokingly refer to Dartmouth's location as incredibly remote, to put it in nice terms. We sometimes say that we need to get away and go and visit civilization. For me, it's an incredibly big shift coming from the NY metro area which is so densely populated; to put it in perspective, I attended a high school that had an enrollment of 3,156 while Dartmouth's undergraduate enrollment is 4,3110.
The busy streets of Boston, MassachusettsWhen I got to Boston, I realized that the atmosphere, obviously, was much different. The air was different -- it wasn't as fresh and crisp, the people in the city didn't smile as they passed each other like is common in Hanover. I quickly realized how accustomed I had become to life in Hanover. I realized how much I came to like life in Hanover. The relaxed nature of life in Hanover allows you to have fewer worries, it almost allows you to focus more since you aren't being stimulated by your environment as much. I stayed with my friend from Harvard and we began to catch up on everything that had changed in our lives recently. I noticed that when we talked about "home," images of Dartmouth came to my mind instead of my home in New Jersey. I thought of Baker Tower and studying in Sanborn (a study space in one of the libraries on campus), I thought of when I have dinner with my friends at FOCO, and of the times I lay on the green enjoying the last few days of summer. I realized that my definition of "home" has begun to mean Dartmouth. Here, at Dartmouth, I feel at home. I've come to involve myself so much in this space that it's slowly becoming a part of my identity.Baker lit up slightly different than usual. What comes to mind when I think of "home."I hope that you too find your home, and if it's here at Dartmouth, welcome to the family. We cannot wait to meet you. Disclaimer: @ my parents who will most likely read this: This does not in any way mean I do not miss my home in NJ.
