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As part of my journey to explore my passion for the healthcare field, I traveled to Gaborone, Botswana for the CIEE Summer Community Public Health program.
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A week ago I endured a 28-hour journey from California to Cape Town, South Africa, to participate in a cross cultural internship with the South African Red Cross Society.
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"The Transformation of Urban and Rural China" was the class that stood out among the many emails I received from 澳门彩开奖 trying to keep students updated over winter break.
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While the rest of my class was coming to terms with what it meant to enter the "real world" and assume post-graduate status, I had the perfect distraction in place.
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Nervousness, excitement, exhaustion, wonder. I have been feeling a whirlwind of emotions since graduation.
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Football has been played at Occidental since 1894, and my teammates and I are ecstatic to take the field late next August to start the 124th season of Tiger football after what was a tumultuous previous campaign and a winter break sewn with uncertainty.
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At the end of my senior year of high school, I was really set on engineering, but unfortunately I didn鈥檛 get into the school I wanted.
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You may have heard that is 澳门彩开奖鈥檚 student-run radio show, but it is so much more than that鈥 it鈥檚 澳门彩开奖鈥檚 go-to-pregame.
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My college goal was always focused and centered around the liberal arts but big into resources and opportunities.