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i received my acceptance letter to
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cornell while i was born deployed to
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afghanistan in 2012
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and i was very excited i was immediately
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welcomed into the cornell family
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and it has honestly been very similar to
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my experience in the military
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exposure to the leadership and
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mentorship here at cornell in terms of
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the faculty and just the other students
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that surround me who are all future
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leaders has really rounded me out i
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think as a leader i've been exposed to
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new and different perspectives and ideas
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and i'm really looking forward to taking
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those
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back to the fleet in the marines we have
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three core values honor courage and
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commitment and i've certainly found all
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three here at cornell
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all around me was this this expectation
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that i could succeed and it almost went
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beyond an expectation it was really a
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belief it's probably the my major
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takeaway from the military just a
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stronger sense of confidence in myself
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and a willingness to learn and being
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resourceful and having a strong work
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ethic that's actually what i was able to
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take with me into my career and
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into my everyday life my military
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experience sort of stuck out people
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recognized it whether they were in the
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military or not people seem to have a
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strong respect for it the person that
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interviewed me saw it as a positive and
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definitely looked at it wanted to talk a
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little bit about it wanted to hear
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how it influenced who i am today i was
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active duty marine corps for 10 years
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and then i was a civilian for the army
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for another seven
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but i was ready to
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you know continue my education and
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looking for a grad school program i
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picked cornell's i'm a student in city
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and regional planning in conjunction
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with me getting a good education since
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i'm a single mom of two school-aged kids
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i wanted to make sure that
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i found a place that had strong
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you know had a strong school district
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seems like they're very few places where
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you have really strong universities that
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you can also
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really safely let your kids outside to
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play my son go out and ride his bicycle
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and just say come home when the sun sets
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you know and and i feel safe doing that
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and i was really surprised to find that
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environment because i wasn't sure how
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many places
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you still can sort of safely let your
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kids outside to play
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we read a lot in the newspapers about
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international conflict but i think it's
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a somewhat unusual circumstance to have
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a faculty member who actually has been
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part of that and can shed light on it in
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both a
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hands-on kind of way but also
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an academic way on what students are
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reading about in the paper every day in
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my nuclear security class i have someone
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who's army rotc and navy rotc and ios
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former air force and so we have each of
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the services represented and we end up
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engaging
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in
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these kinds of conversations that bring
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out our individual experiences but bring
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them into conversation with each other
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so having worked in the military
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and now teaching issues related to the
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military i think what i can bring to
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bear a lot of concrete examples that
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make kind of abstract ideas about
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defense issues more concrete one of the
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benefits i think for cornell
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you know for for me and considering
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cornell is you know pretty good hours as
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far as you know set hours but but you
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can still do what you want to do and
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then i think what also attracted me to
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the position is that in my navy
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experience we did a lot of in our
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primary care settings we did a lot of
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sort of patient centered
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sort of medicine where you kind of
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basically you have one place where the
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patients go for all their care and
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they're kind of working as a team and i
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kind of got that sense also when i you
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know was looking into the apple applying
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for this position that that was a
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similar sort of feeling you know with
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the nurses and the support staff
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everybody sort of working as a team to
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take care of the patients and that was
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also what attracted me to cornell in
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addition to just the welcoming sort of
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vibe i got from just being a veteran and
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they were happy
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your experience is important to us and
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that kind of thing so that was very that
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was very nice i felt like this would be
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the place if i were to pick some place
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that i would be for the next 10 15 20
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years
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this would be it
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um just looking back at other positions
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i could have had i i wasn't so sure
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those were those
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permanent they were kind of maybe
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bridges and after moving around every
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three to four years and deploying i
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wanted to pick a place that i knew
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i know i could be here for a while
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cornell was full of opportunities i was
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a curious student
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and i wanted to learn as much as i could
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and cornell certainly opened those doors
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for me
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cornell is dear to my heart
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it accepted anyone who wanted to study
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in any subject
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now this is remarkable and it has
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accepted women
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and has been led by women for many times
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in fact in my senior year the dean of
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our college
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had a one hour course every friday
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afternoon
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talking about the early women
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from seneca falls it is on their
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shoulders that we have made progress
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so that i believe the women
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just are part of the same continuum of
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women's
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advancement and partnership with men
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and i like that idea
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