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And that's when a computer science major friend told me about,
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“Have you ever heard of information science?”
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I think the unique thing about Bowers is, as a college, we can
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double major in a lot of other things.
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And that's really the fun part of Bowers,
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right, is you can you can be interdisciplinary.
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Research definitely has been a pretty formative
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experience at Bowers because it puts you in contact
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with all these amazing people who are doing interesting projects.
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I think I would describe my time at Bowers as a pretty transformative
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and formative experience because it really put me on a different
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path towards research and doing more quantitative analysis.
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Dr. College I'm thinking of doing being a research assistant.
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I will be either helping out or running my own project in policy related area.

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I'm really optimistic about
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what I'll be able to do in the future with the tools that I've been given at Bowers.
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My name is Georgina Gonzalez.
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I am a biometry and statistics major.
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Math had always been something that was challenging for me.
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I had an interest in it, but I never was the best at.
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As time went on, I really saw myself feel
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confident and feel fulfilled by the work I was doing, not just challenged.
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I grew up in a community that was mostly first
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generation immigrants and pretty low income.
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I really became passionate
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about helping those on campus that had a similar background to me.
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I am the VP of Professional Development at ALPFA.
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ALPFA stands for Association of Latino Professionals for America.
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During my time there, I have been teaching 10-week courses
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to Latinos at Cornell, where I sort of give them the foundational knowledge
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they need to succeed, whether it's resumé work, public speaking, how to network.
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That has been a huge motivator
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for me throughout my time at Cornell that I'm really, really passionate about.
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I feel incredibly privileged to be part of Bowers.
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It's a college where we are endlessly challenged,
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but we are also endlessly supported.