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Social work for me was always, like, the natural choice. I did my undergrad at
Marquette in, um,
Social Welfare and Justice. And then
I was in the Peace Corps for two years. And so I kind of saw a Masters in Social Work
as an opportunity to kind of really hone in those skills that I had learned
in Peace Corps and be able to apply them to an American setting.
Well I'm from the Madison area uh... I kind of grew up around here and I never
was a student here so
it always seemed there was definitely a draw
to just kind of see what that student life was like. It's also really well-known for it's
Social Work program in the states, especially because of the field experience.
So that's kind of an opportunity for you to like, at a Masters level you
really want to be taking the skills that you're learning as a student and
really, like, applying them. I think the Social Work program here does a really
good job of looking at the whole situation and really kind of uh...
asking you as a student to not only be looking at those things that might be
affecting our clients but also getting involved in kind of
community, in like, what they call macro level kind of interventions.
One thing that I really liked from the very beginning is, you know, it can
seem kind of limiting, that you need to get these basic classes down and
stuff but
one thing that produces is like a really tight group of people because
you're all going through the same thing at the same time, and that was like a huge
appeal for me because
uh... you feel really connected to the other students
as well as the teachers kind of know what you're going through, or have
an idea, and are really accessible. It feels like everybody's rooting for you.
It feels like everybody is on your side.