Is she an opera singer? A physicist? A voice teacher? An engineer? Mariami Bekauri is all of these things and more! With two Bachelors degrees AND two Masters degrees following very different, but parallel, career paths, Mariami could wake up any day and choose to make a full career out of either her opera and pedagogy training, or her physics and engineering training. With very different requirements and expectations, it can be hard to hold onto both dreams in the face of scrutiny. So how has Mariami managed to balance these two passions? And more importantly - why?

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