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从航空电子到音系学
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In her own words, Natalie Hurley '14, a transfer student and U.S. Air Force veteran discusses her experiences at Utica College.
My experience here at Utica College was incredibly positive. 我来自一所更大的大学. That had its plusses as well as its drawbacks. Here at a smaller college, the plusses are really overwhelming. I got a chance to really get to know my professors as well as my peers, and it was fun. I got a chance to experience and do things that I probably wouldn’t have gotten to do at a larger institution.
Originally I’m from Southern California, and I kind of moved around a lot. I like to say that the formative years were spent in the Midwest. I graduated from high school in Missouri, and moved back out to California where I attempted to go to college. It really wasn’t for me – I needed a kick in the pants, so I signed up for the Air Force.
There I was an avionics technician on F-15 fighter jets, which was really really awesome. I learned a lot of discipline, and a lot about just sucking it up and going with it. So that was four years of my life right there. 他们是最坚强的, 但他们也是最好的, 因为我对自己了解了很多. I think those skills I learned have been applied directly to my scholastic and academic endeavors and have helped me become successful.
I came to Utica College as a transfer student from Alaska, and as a veteran I was looking for a school that was going to be compatible with my GI bill, 因为那是件大事. I wanted to be a high school English teacher, and I still would like to. The State of New York is a little finicky with its teacher certification requirements and I’m still looking into that. But I just had a wonderful time reading my way through this degree program. 在我上一所学校, there was a large concentration in linguistics, 我觉得这很有趣, maybe for the reason why I excelled at my job in the military with mechanics and electronics is that I like learning how things work, and with linguistics you figure out how the English language works. So it’s kind like the nuts and bolts mechanics of the English language, 我觉得这很有趣.
我很乐意就此展开更多的讨论. If I were to seek out a master’s or further, it would probably be in linguistics.
But the reading material was incredibly profound. 诗歌——我以前从不喜欢诗歌. I thought it was pretentious and awful and the only person who understood it was the writer. 但事实并非如此. 我只是不知道怎么读. 我有几个教授,比如. 克鲁兹和现在的博士. 花环, who really introduced me to some wonderful poetry and I was just reading it wrong the entire time. I actually really enjoy it, and I credit them both for that.
I got to know some incredible professors. Dr. 杰森·丹曼博士. Gary 花环, Professor Suzanne Richardson, Dr. James Scannell, all of them have been really wonderful. They were all very encouraging with my writing and my academic endeavors.
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