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Owada instead tried to bridge the gap between the two cultures, joining the Japanese Culture Society and introducing her friends to Japanese traditions. Lucia A. Giudice ’85—who lived on the fourth floor of Thayer with Owada and attended high school with her?...
Owada similarly used her academic interests in economics and politics to bring together her two cultures, including working as a research assistant translating Japanese documents for History Professor Andrew D. Gordon ’74 during the spring of her junior year. Gordon also served on the committee for...
HOME TO A MIX OF VIBRANT CULTURES
While Worth says that a liberal arts education prepares people to be better professionals, better citizens, and better problem solvers, she acknowledges that many students come from cultures where “good students do science.”
Not only are “practical” careers such as medicine considered more prestigious in many cultures, they also lead to high-paying jobs.