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- I went on a whim and decided to take a anthropology course, and I fell in love with the material in class. It was called The Roaring Twenties, and we were learning about not the 1920s, but the 2020s, and our generation, Gen Z, and how the pandemic has affected not only our sense of self, but our perceptions of the world around us through social media and things like that, and how the pandemic really accelerated that self view and also view of the world. And as soon as I took that class, I realized that I wanted to explore more. So I decided to take two other anthropology classes in the following semesters, and it's now my minor. So I would say Middlebury really emphasized that exploration.

I really enjoy how pretty it is. Just stepping outside of a classroom, maybe I'm having a bad day and I look and I see the mountains and it just reminds me that, I don't know, it's a really good feeling to have so much beauty around you.

A first-year seminar is a course designed, every first year takes it, it's a course designed to get you involved in the liberal arts education and what the liberal arts actually looks like. A lot of these courses are unique and are something that professors are interested in but don't often teach. For instance, I teach a course called The Language of Conspiracy Theories, which is a fun course where we study why do conspiracy theories exist? Where do they exist in the 21st century and why do they keep popping up? Those are the types of courses that you'll be taking with your first-year seminar. There are a great way for you to engage with peers in your new class. They also give you, your first-year seminar professor is also your advisor, so it's a great way to get you involved with your first-year experience here at Middlebury and to get you set up for the rest of your academic career.

I am a firm believer that knowing what you don't like is just as important as knowing what you do like. The CCI or the Center for Careers and Internships does a really great job of exposing you to a variety of fields through their structure and their support systems. For example, the CCI is divided into about six or seven sectors with career advisors in their respected fields. They also put out weekly newsletters and we always have tons of career events happening throughout the week. Other resources that you can access, for example, are conversations with peer advisors who are trained, conduct resume reviews, and mock interviews. Another really great thing that the CCI does is ensure that opportunities are equitable. So they funded over $850,000 of internship funding for underpaid internships last year. One of my favorite resources that I've leveraged at the CCI has been the summer consulting program. And so I was paired with a partner at a firm and he spent countless hours helping me prep for really competitive internships. So I'm really excited to start off my senior year with a full-time job offer.

I think Middlebury professors are extremely accessible to students. We come to a place like Middlebury because we want to have those interactions with students, whether it's in the classroom or getting to know you better outside of academics or providing mentorship for both your career at Middlebury and beyond. Those are the type of interactions that we love, and so we try to provide lots of opportunities for you to have those types of interactions with us. So obviously there's in the classroom, that's one way that we interact with you but we also have office hours which are just times every week where students can drop in and talk to us about anything that they want, whether it's about questions that they have about material from class or anything else that they wanna talk about. And most professors have way more office hours than the minimum required 'cause we just wanna give all of our students opportunities to come. I schedule my office hours based on when students are available to make sure that they can all come and talk to me and I give students extra credit for class if they come, 'cause I just want to incentivize students as much as possible to come and have those interactions with me. The professors also have interactions with students outside of class. So in the Computer Science Department we have a barbecue every summer for students who are doing research with us on campus. And I've had lots of coffees and lunches with students to just talk about what's going on in their lives and what they're thinking about in terms of summer internships or what classes to take next semester or whatever they wanna talk about.

Ciao mi chiamo Naja e questo è un giorno della mia vita in Italia. Quindi la prima cosa che faccio e dicendo Buongiorno a Leo lui è bellissimo. E poi camminando verso la mia scuola. Questa la stanza per i miei corsi sia Middlebury College cosi bella vero. Adesso sedersi per la mia adesione. Dopo Mangio la colazione Ecco il mio cappuccino e la mia omelette io Sto anche provando a leggere per l'universita. Poi faccio i miei compitial caffe. Dopo quello ho bisogno di tempo per divertirmi quindi incontro i miei amici per i cocktail. Adesso ho una cena leggera con la mia famiglia ospite. E l'ultima cosa che faccio è andare un Jazz Club. E il mio posto preferito dove andare guarda alle mie amiche inalare. E questa è la mia vita in Italia Grazie per aver guardato. Ciao.