Blog Post 6: Last Meeting!

Today I met with my group for the last time and I was surprised at how attached I have become to my members. Although only two people showed up, these are the two with whom I have formed a true connection with and who are eager to meet every single day. I honestly feel like I could talk to them for hours and never get bored! I tried to wrap up some of the main themes that I believed were the focus our conversations and was able to get some truly inspirational responses from my group members. I learned more about them than I had over the entire semester in this single meeting. I came to understand fully why they chose to come to U.S. to pursue their educational goals. One student, interested in Industrial Design, was an artist as a child, but never had a defined path of study in relation to his passion. Only here, at the University of Michigan, was he able to find a career that truly suited him, and that his parents respected. In a different sense, another group member demonstrated to me that his decision to study economics was stemmed from his desire to support himself with a stable job, slightly disheartened by the fact that he felt he lacked true passion. The amount of honesty that we were all able to share was thrilling and helped us to understand our goals better in a more focused way.