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あらすじ・解説
Question: Introduce yourself (0:10)
- Final year Law and Society student:
- Discusses degrees earned by different family members
- Importance of education was instilled in her by her family
- First person in her family to pursue level 8 degree
- Her dad died during 6th year---affected her ability to study
- Felt overwhelmed when she came to DCU but got the help and resources she needed
- Worked as an Access Ambassador, which provided her a support network, friends, and fulfilling work to do
- First started off as an Access Ambassador working on Outreach---travelled to schools in disadvantaged areas in North Dublin
- Now serves as an Access Coordinator and works with the Access staff on outreach programming
- Made friends within her degree before college through Access, which helped with the transition and eased fears of a competitive and unfriendly academic environment
- Wants to get a masters and possibly pursue a Phd
- Wants to make change with the law and sees herself doing that through Academia
- Seeing Access students who went on to do a Masters or Phd encouraged her to believe she could do the same despite financial barriers
- Lectures are friendly and a good resource