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The Center Welcomes ORIGINS Students
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Last week, the Center welcomed new students to the annual ORIGINS pre-orientation. ORIGINS is a pre-orientation program focusing on diversity, inclusion and leadership development for historically and socially minoritized first-year students, specifically focusing on those social identities in gender, gender expression, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, as well as those who are the first generation in their families to go to college and Pell grant recipients. Throughout the week, students were introduced to the Center team and other campus resources, connected with their ORIGINS cohort and ORIGINS ambassadors, and learned about the Center's new program, the Center Fellowship. Get to know some of the students in the new ORIGINS cohort below!
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What about your CMU journey are you most excited about?
I am most excited for the amount of freedom I will have in college to work on projects more focused on the art I want to create, with my art major classes guiding me in my skill and concept.
What have you gained the most from your ORIGINS experience?
ORIGINS was a great opportunity to help familiarize myself with the more diverse section of the student body, they are now a resource I can use if I ever need a sense of comfort on or off campus.
How do you see the Center playing a role in your Carnegie Mellon experience?
I see the Center as a place where I can turn to if I ever need a place on campus or in person that can support me, listen to my problems, work out solutions, give me peace if ever I am homesick and so much more.
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Emmanuel Lugo
School of Art
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Farida Abdelmoneum
Dietrich College
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What about your CMU journey are you most excited about?
I am really excited for all the research opportunities CMU offers and building connections and relationships with professors.
What have you gained the most from your ORIGINS experience?
I made a lot of friends and connections through ORIGINS and it helped me get a jump start on what I needed to do in order to be successful at CMU. I have reached out to my academic coach and am pretty familiar now with what resources I need to utilize in order to have a smooth transition into college, this has also made orientation week a lot easier for me because I feel more prepared.
How do you see the Center playing a role in your Carnegie Mellon experience?
I see the Center as a place where I can network and meet new people, although I am remote this semester, I feel like it’s helped me connect with other first years and upper classmen which is really nice.
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What about your CMU journey are you most excited about?
I’m most excited about exploring a new city, and discovering who I will grow into as an independent adult.
What have you gained the most from your ORIGINS experience?
I think the thing I appreciate most about the ORIGINS experience is the understanding that the community will always be there for me to rely on.
How do you see the Center playing a role in your Carnegie Mellon experience?
I definitely see myself spending a lot of time at the Center to unwind or get help if I need it. Especially since there won’t be many people who look like me in my major, it is a nice space to go if I ever need to stop feeling like the “other”.
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Teresa Myrthil
College of Engineering
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Fernanda Molina Galindo
Dietrich College
What about your CMU journey are you most excited about?
College is a place that reveals great truths about oneself. Therefore, I am excited to grow my skills and knowledge through working with some of the best professors in their fields as well as learning about different perspectives and ideas from students that come from all over the world. I am also excited to immerse myself in clubs and organizations centered around my interests in cyber defense, computer science, and journalistic writing. Furthermore, I am excited to have access to all the great resources at CMU that can allow me to do research, start my own business, and many other things. Overall, I am excited to embark on a journey that is centered around curiosity and exploration.
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What have you gained the most from your ORIGINS experience?
When I first started the ORIGINS experience, the faculty, staff, and upperclassmen ambassadors were very welcoming. Through various discussions with them, I learned how to best navigate through CMU and learning about important campus resources and educational opportunities that I may not be aware of otherwise. Additionally, with the current pandemic, being able to connect with other students has become harder and through ORIGINS I was able to meet students from different backgrounds before beginning the year, which made me more comfortable once I began orientation week.
How do you see the Center playing a role in your Carnegie Mellon experience?
Through the Center, I plan to apply to the Center Fellowship program to cultivate my leadership skills, help advance social justice, and help expand the Hispanic presence and culture on campus. I also plan to use the Center's staff as a resource to assist me in connecting, developing, and achieving my academic plans and goals. Furthermore, I plan to use the Center as a place where I can continue meeting students from CMU that come from different parts of the world, have different perspectives, and have different personal experiences.
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The Center is Talking About:
Imposter Syndrome
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This week, the Center is engaging in conversations about imposter syndrome. It can effect anyone no matter their social status, work history, skill level, or degree of expertise. We think this infographic from @soyouwanttotalkabout is a helpful start in defining and offering tips to break through this experience. View the Instagram post in it's entirety by clicking on this link. If you've ever experienced imposter syndrome, as we have too, know we're here to help.
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This Week's Recommended Listen: 100 Years Later: The Complicated History Of The Women's Suffrage Movement
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This week, the Center recommends a listen to the recent episode of NPR's On Point, 100 Years Later: The Complicated History Of The Women's Suffrage Movement. The episode, featuring Carnegie Mellon professor of history Lisa Tetrault, looks back at the role women of color have played in United States voting history. Join us on September 16 at 7 p.m. for Constitution Day 2020 where Lisa Tetrault will be the featured speaker.
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Carnegie Mellon will host its third-annual INTERSECT@CMU Conference as a virtual series beginning on Thursday, September 10. The 2020 INTERSECT@CMU Virtual Conference Series will consider the pandemic's long-term global effects on four foundational elements of society: health, sustainability, the economy and education.
Sessions will be held on September 10-13, 18, 25 and October 2 and include afternoon keynote lectures and panel discussions, student-led programming (STUDENTSECT@CMU) and opportunities for interdisciplinary discussion.
A university-wide effort supported by all seven colleges, this timely conference gathers thought leaders of disparate disciplines and perspectives from within CMU and beyond to explore the impact of COVID-19 on the future of business, technology and humanity. Join us as we discuss how our decisions today can help build a better, more robust, and more equitable society.
We encourage you to participate in this university-wide conversation. Find out more and register here.
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