\u201cWhat makes public health so different from any other career is that the options are endless. You can concentrate on one specific area\u2014HIV prevention, for example\u2014or focus on different areas as your interests evolve. Few fields offer that flexibility and freedom. In public health, there\u2019s no reason to get stale. You also can come into it from any undergrad degree\u2014my background was in Russian and linguistics, but I hit the ground running as quickly as everybody else and had just as much to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I arrived for Accepted Students Day, I was still undecided. By the time I left, I was sure that SPH was the one. Everybody\u2014faculty, students, staff, alumni\u2014was so friendly and welcoming. Everybody was so passionate about the work they were doing. It seemed that everybody I met couldn\u2019t wait to get to school or work. In part, it\u2019s because everyone is so supportive of one another. SPH is a collaborative, not a competitive, environment\u2014what public health is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe faculty at SPH aren\u2019t just excited about the research they\u2019re doing, they\u2019re excited about teaching. They\u2019re at SPH because they find interactions with students energizing and fruitful. They develop productive, mutually inspiring, collegial relationships with their students. To be honest, it wasn\u2019t what I was expecting. I thought\u2014big school, impersonal faculty. But it was the opposite. It\u2019s a core support system in your life, even after you graduate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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