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“I came to LSU because I wanted to study overseas. I like being in
the South. The weather is nice. It’s comparable to where I come
from in Kenya. I also had admission into the University of New
York, but I chose this one. The biggest challenges I’ve had are in
academics but in a good way! I’ve learned so much in a year. I
plan to get my Ph.D., and hopefully be a professor back in Kenya.
I’m studying chemistry. I’ve always loved chemistry. In Kenya,
I was teaching chemistry to high schoolers. When you like the
subject you’re teaching, you just love it! You love to explain things
to people. Just being able to break things down to the way that
someone can understand is really nice. You can make them see
it! There’s a very big difference in teaching here. In the U.S., the
teaching is more homework orientated. We don’t have much of
that in Kenya. What we have there is more of a lecture kind of
method. I think the homework is good though because it makes
you dig into the stuff.”