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Working with children ages 4 months to 10 years old, filling in for full-time teachers, monitoring child behavior and activities.
Greeting customers at the airport with signs and accompanying customers to vehicle. This job helped me develop excellent people and conversational skills.
As a summer scholar, I received a stipend to create and complete a summer project. I researched the topic of mental illness cross-culturally. I focused on the topic of depression. I defined depression using an evolutionary perspective and researched how depression varies between cultures. This was preliminary research for my senior thesis, which was completed over the course of the following school year.
I have a particular interest in psychological anthropology and plan to pursue a Ph. D. in Anthropology with a focus on mental health issues.