Today was a full day of meetings for the four of us – when we weren’t working on our video, we had four different meetings with CTI and FHI 360 staff. All of the people we talked with focused on their career paths, and how their routes to FHI 360 were circuitous and unexpected. I thought it was cool that two of the people we talked to, Greg Kopf and Laneta Dorflinger, both talked about how a professor in college or grad school left such a lasting impact on them that they ended up in a field of study entirely different from what they were expecting, all because that professor was able to help them realize their passions. Even Hannah, an intern from UNC who started a few days ago, told us how she’d started out at Johns Hopkins studying chemistry, but after taking classes in UNC’s Public Health program with a really great professor she realized she wanted to study that instead and completely changed her future career plans. Their stories made me more optimistic about my future, because I don’t have any idea what I want to major in right now – but that’s okay, because I have yet to meet the professor or experience the life-altering event that inspires me.
– Hope
IMG_3078-1ic82rl – a short part of our video project
