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Why I Love the Spanish Department

I truly did not expect to fall in love with the Spanish department when I selected my major. I even waited a semester before taking any Spanish classes because my advisor suggested that I get a head start on completing prerequisites in science courses before they were overenrolled. My second semester freshman year, though, I took Spanish 311 with Prof. Danielle Thomas, and began to really get involved. 

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Being an Interdisciplinary Student

As a freshman, I was subjected to endless icebreaker games and introductions with each new class, club meeting, etc., as all freshmen are, but I always felt a bit lost on how to define myself academically. Meeting with advisors and introducing myself to professors, I was always overly aware of the raised eyebrows and slight pauses when I mentioned that I was a pre-med student with a humanities major.

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