I started out my academic career by going to a community college in order to better explore my options, where I was on the Dean’s List twice and completed the Writing-Intensive Option offered. I moved on to study Political Science, with a minor in Sociology at Buffalo State for my undergraduate and could not be happier with my experience there. Along with being accepted into the National Political Science Honor Society Pi Sigma Alpha, I received both a small grant and a travel grant for my research I conducted alongside and with mentorship of my professors. For my graduate education, I decided to once again broaden my horizons and study library and information studies. The program has increased my desire to get back into research, along with giving me tools to do so. Buffalo State sparked an intense interest in research and my time at Monroe Community College stressed the importance of being literate in whichever field a person is studying. And the tools I have learned with UB’s Library and Science program, helped me to understand how to be not only a better student, but teacher of these two concepts that really should be lumped together.
I’ve moved through the ranks of the office in the Library and Information Studies Department club, first starting as a
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And in choosing my doctoral program, I assumed my place was in political science, since I was so pleased with my experience at Buffalo State, and did not consider any other field. However, with advisement from my political science professors and my personal dissatisfaction with the topics, my research topics would work better with sociology and I would love to expand my research to include other behaviors rather than just