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Week 3: COM 412

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2. Pick one of the personal stories listed and answer: ​(Due 2/24)●What was the universal theme?●Did you feel a connection? If so, why? If not, what would have made it better?


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Claire Wu Anderson // Peace Studies Major // Communication and Media Studies Minor

  • Never visited prior to the first day of move in my freshman year
  • Was told about Goucher by my college counselor
  • No one from my school had gone to Goucher, but my counselor had heard about it from “Colleges that Changed Lives”
  • Got in and got a lot of scholarship money, so my parents said that it was the best place to go since we wouldn’t go into debt
  • First time going to Baltimore was to move in
  • Met my close friend circle through my First Year Experience group and a smores night in the Freshman circle
  • Came onto campus thinking I was going to be a International Relations Major, changed to Peace Studies after a Peace Studies class my Freshman year spring
  • I liked Peace more because it was everything I liked about International Relations but with action tied to the findings and the research
  • I liked having an interdisciplinary major way more than having such a focused major
  • Took a Com CPE and really realized how much I liked the study area and how I’ve already been doing what I would be doing in class on my own during my childhood (making home movies, writing play scripts, like social media as a form of sharing art, etc.)
  • Added Com as my minor my sophomore year winter
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