Extended About Me (part 4 of 5)
Part 1: http://claudelaine26.blogspot.com/2016/04/extended-about-me-part-15.html Part 2: http://claudelaine26.blogspot.com/2016/04/extended-about-me-part-2-of-5.html Part 3: http://claudelaine26.blogspot.com/2016/05/extended-about-me-part-3-of-5.html During the summer after my sophomore year of college, I worked as a Team Leader for Lead America’s Medicine and Healthcare conferences at Georgetown University. Being a Team Leader was one of the first indications that my career interests pointed toward student affairs, though I did not know it at the time. By interacting with many high school students coming from all over the U.S., I made it my priority to try to connect with my students, learning about their backgrounds and experiences with education. Though certain moments stick with me—leading a crowd of 75 teenagers in cheers for a half hour before a lecturer arrived, and helping a particularly quiet student come out of his shell—it was an accumulation o...