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- Matthew Wojciechowski, a student at Michigan State University, discusses growing up in Dearborn Heights, MI, the community's middle class lifestyle, adjusting to the diversity at MSU, first selecting Engineering as his major to please and impress his father, and later switching to Graphic Design. He also talks about foreign students in his classes, the competitiveness he says that they bring, and how other students resent them, career possibilities in his major, conflicts with professors, managing college life, the dorm, and blowing off steam. He says that he aspires to be married with kids and living in a rural area while pursuing his profession.
- Date Issued:
- 1988-05-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University freshman Ted Stockton says he does not know what he will major in, but hopes to be a college professor like his father. Stockton talks about his hometown of Dearborn, MI, its large Arab-American population, and managing to do well in high school, without studying. He describes the academic and social adjustments he has made as a new college student and says that college is really the time to develop the ability to relate to and get along with others. Stockton also talks about his academic interests and says that he has no interest pursuing a degree just for the money.
- Date Issued:
- 1988-06-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University sophomore James Porter talks about growing up on a farm in Heartland, MI, his family and siblings, and his parent's careers. He talks about the transition from high school to college, says that he is living off campus now and calls dorm life "insane". Porter says that in ten years he expects to be actor, but would be happy to have any job in professional theater. Theater life, he says, does not lend itself to starting a family.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-11-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Matthew Wojciechowski, a student at Michigan State University, discusses growing up in Dearborn Heights, MI, the community's middle class lifestyle, adjusting to the diversity at MSU, first selecting Engineering as his major to please and impress his father, and later switching to Graphic Design. He also talks about foreign students in his classes, the competitiveness he says that they bring, and how other students resent them, career possibilities in his major, conflicts with professors, managing college life, the dorm, and blowing off steam. He says that he aspires to be married with kids and living in a rural area while pursuing his profession.
- Date Issued:
- 1988-05-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University sophomore James Porter talks about growing up on a farm in Heartland, MI, his family and siblings, and his parent's careers. He talks about the transition from high school to college, says that he is living off campus now and calls dorm life "insane". Porter says that in ten years he expects to be actor, but would be happy to have any job in professional theater. Theater life, he says, does not lend itself to starting a family.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-11-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University freshman Ted Stockton says he does not know what he will major in, but hopes to be a college professor like his father. Stockton talks about his hometown of Dearborn, MI, its large Arab-American population, and managing to do well in high school, without studying. He describes the academic and social adjustments he has made as a new college student and says that college is really the time to develop the ability to relate to and get along with others. Stockton also talks about his academic interests and says that he has no interest pursuing a degree just for the money.
- Date Issued:
- 1988-06-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection