Month: April 2014

Second Year, Life Science

“What made you choose Life Science?”

“Uh… I don’t know. My parents?” [laughs]

“Are you actually interested in it?”

“I’m more interested in Psychology. I’m hoping to make it my major.”

Fourth Year, Finance

“How’s your experience at UTM?”

“It’s a loving community. You make a lot of friends and everyone’s nice. Other than studying, you get to hang out and play.”

Exchange Student, Fourth Year, Biology

“In Brazil, I had the experience to work with fishes. We travel and collect fishes from all around Brazil and then go to the lab and examine and catalogue fishes. It’s a great experience because I had the opportunity to see this ‘field’ part of the job. It was exciting because (I get to) travel. The last trip that I went to for research was two weeks in a van. A road trip. We stopped at many amazing places. A lot of the places we needed to go to were secret and hidden. It was an amazing experience.”

First Year, Criminology

“I like to practice martial arts. I do karate.”

“What do you like about it?”

“I like the values you learn from it… the discipline you learn from it.”

“Is it something you’ve been doing since you were young?”

“I’ve been doing it for ten years now. I just received my black belt.”

Third Year, Speciality in Criminology, Minor in History

“What are you passionate about?”

“Probably spreading awareness of what’s going on around the world. I feel like at UTM, people are stuck in a bubble…If you read what’s going on around the world, like in Ukraine or Venezuela or other places in the world, people aren’t doing well because their country is oppressing them. People are not aware that they have so many rights here, while in other countries that’s being taken away from them.”