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Mike Petrarca. He's an adventurer that wants to make the most
out of life. I would like to get a job in marketing or sales,
hopefully in the outdoor industry, that's where my passion lies.
I have learned a great deal at U.R.I. both personally and in the classroom.
I think one of the best experiences for me was studying abroad,
and U.R.I. provided me with that opportunity. I'm a very outdoorsy person, so
I knew that Australia would provide me with alot of opportunities to see different things,
and meet different people in that outdoor aspect of life
so I chose Australia. I've always wanted to go there, and it was the time of
my life. U.R.I. has a great balance of both in the classroom
learning and other opportunities to learn, whether it be study abroad or
my recent trip to Nepal that I went through the center of non-violence
and peace studies. So, they provide you with other alternative
ways of learning that I feel most other colleges don't really provide you with.
I found out about the trip to Nepal after speaking to
Dr. Derbyshire. She saw that I was taking a peace class in
non-violence peace training and she told me that there was a trip going to Nepal to learn
more about that, and that if I was interested to jump on the opportunity,
and that's just what I did. The purpose of the trip was to go
with the center for non-violence and peace studies and train local college
students there and work with other organizations such as C.O.C.A.P.
and other universities there to train as many people in Nepal on non-violence
practices as possible. When I left Nepal, I had a total
different outlook on life just seeing the way that so many people live.
When we're in the United States, we're kind of used to everything
happening the way we want it to and having alot of different opportunities and having
just clean air to breathe, where as when I was there, there was just so much
going on all the time, whether it be people just burning trash in the streets
because they don't have trashcans and us having to wear masks and
you don't realize that people live that way until you're actually immersed in that culture and then when
you come back from that, it's a reverse culture shock, and you really just start to appreciate
things, even the simple stop sign, because they don't have any traffic rules there.
It really made a difference on my life.