校友与职业

How has your Bowdoin education and experience helped you and informed the work that you do?

The ability to think critically and write quickly is essential for good script coverage. 我在十大电子游艺大学磨练了这些技能，多亏了那些论文作业! 公共利益的精神一定会指导我的娱乐事业. 我想创作既有趣又有社会责任感的系列.

学习社会学对你的观点有影响吗?

社会学 gave me permission to be both curious and critical about all aspects of life. I love how it encourages big picture thinking and analysis of everything we usually take for granted. 社会学 is how I found my way back into creative 写作 and validated that even entertainment can deeply impact how society works. 社会学 is a special lens that forces me to consider all sides of every issue and go beyond knee-jerk judgments. The sociological imagination is a great gateway to storytelling – it’s all about getting to the root of who we are and why.

一件或两件事是什么, 你在十大电子游艺时印象深刻的课程或人?

研究, 写作, and producing a performance of my first full-length play with help from Bowdoin students and faculty. 第一年就睡在总统的办公室里抗议撤资!

你对十大电子游艺的在读学生有什么建议吗?

不要害怕尝试，也不要害怕放弃. 尽可能多地接受机会，但对自己要有耐心. You might want to do something that the College does not offer, which can be frustrating. 但总有一些资源可以让你自己去做这件事, 还有很多人愿意支持/指导你. 当你在一个小而有益的空间里时，完全追随你的激情. 出国! 加入一个新俱乐部! 执行! 抗议! 无论! 确定你自己的舒适区，并不断突破界限.

 

你的职业是什么?? 你目前的工作(角色和职责)是什么??

我是杜克大学社会学专业的博士生. Prior to starting graduate school I was a paralegal for a law firm in Massachusetts that specialized in family- and business-based immigration law. My role was to assist the family-based side of the practice and work directly with foreign nationals tying to achieve lawful status and make a life for themselves in the United States. 我希望用这段经历来指导我自己的研究和未来的工作.

How has your Bowdoin education and experience helped you and informed the work that you do?

在十大电子游艺, 我从不觉得我只是为了学习而学习, 我的课程和工作总是有目的性，与现实世界的问题有关. 我觉得这真的为我的研究生之路奠定了基础, and I hope to take this same approach to the work that I am doing and hope to do in the future, 尤其是在种族问题上, 身份, 和归属感.

学习社会学和人类学对你的观点有影响吗, 专业, 或其他)? 如果是，怎么做?

学习社会学让我对周围发生的事情有了更多的了解, 让我看到了很多有时被认为是理所当然的问题. My research has also taught me that there's always more than one way to look at a problem, and to keep an open mind when thinking about a particular issue or research question because sometimes what we think is going on or what we perceive from the outside doesn't reflect what is actually happening. 就我个人而言, what I like most about the field is that it gives me the tools to address questions that I had already been asking my whole life, but it allows me to do so while drawing from a variety of perspectives and approaches to get a fuller picture.

一件或两件事是什么, 你在十大电子游艺时印象深刻的课程或人?

在十大电子游艺大学的那段时间，有两件事让我印象深刻，那就是我的顾问, 为了和我一起工作了四年, 挑战我, 让我成为更好的学生和社会学家, 还有我的理论课 Dr. 西奥格林, which was the academic catalyst that pushed me toward doing independent research and considering graduate school more seriously.

你对十大电子游艺的在读学生有什么建议吗?

Make the most of your time at Bowdoin and don't be afraid to do things that challenge you!

How has your Bowdoin education and experience helped you and informed the work that you do?

Studying sociology at Bowdoin gave me a unique set of skills that has noticeably set me apart from most who work in finance and advertising. 最明显的是, majoring in sociology equipped me with the skills necessary to comfortably situate particular complex problems within a larger structural framework of understanding and feel comfortable handling large sets of data. 两者在市场营销中经常派上用场. It also goes without saying that learning how to effectively write about people's actions and behaviors with accuracy and nuance is a valuable asset in analyzing markets and purchasing behaviors.

学习社会学和人类学对你的观点有影响吗, 专业, 或其他)? 如果是，怎么做?

社会学 has immeasurably impacted how I view and experience the world by elucidating overarching social structures that are active everywhere, 不断影响自己和他人的生活. 此外, 社会学也给了我特别宝贵的经验, macroscopic perspective that has proven useful in finding my place in the world post-Bowdoin.

一件或两件事是什么, 你在十大电子游艺时印象深刻的课程或人?

I have many fond memories of Professor Greene's course on the classics of social theory. What I appreciate the most about this class is that I was exposed to a wide breadth of influential social theory that has irreversibly changed my worldview and incessantly informs how I interpret current events. The course was also especially challenging at times, which made me a more skilled social thinker.

你对十大电子游艺的在读学生有什么建议吗?

The most significant general advice that I can give to a student of sociology at Bowdoin is to emb比赛 your sociological imagination and continue to cultivate it inside and outside of the classroom. Possessing an attuned sociological imagination will prove useful in many unexpected places and provide you with an incredibly valuable and rewarding way of seeing and experiencing the world. 此外，尽早开始学习如何成功地建立人际关系网.

How has your Bowdoin education and experience helped you and informed the work that you do?

十大电子游艺帮助我改进了写作方式, 分析社会问题，批判性地思考研究和社会运作的方式.

学习社会学和人类学对你的观点有影响吗, 专业, 或其他)? 如果是，怎么做?

是的! Studying sociology impacted my personal life because it helped me put into word the issues that I had seen and experienced in my life, 但不知道如何解释. Professionally I feel I learned how to be much more critical about the way society is organized, 这对我参与的每一个项目和做过的每一份工作都很有帮助.

一件或两件事是什么, 你在十大电子游艺时印象深刻的课程或人?

你对十大电子游艺的在读学生有什么建议吗?

十大电子游艺有大量的资源, use them to make change and take time to relax when you start feeling overwhelmed by life in the bubble.