How to: enrich your life
Isabella Segui ’20, a biology with a secondary teaching certification major, has learned the secret to gaining perspective and enriching one’s life: Talking to people unlike you. “I have come to treasure talking to people who are different from me, including people who aren’t in my age group. I think I cultivated this skill from spending as much time with extended family as possible, from great-grandparents to second cousins. Family is a great place to practice how to best interact with others, regardless of age.
“I would challenge my fellow college students to get coffee with their professors and residence director. They have so much to share, but their students miss out if they don’t express interest. We can learn something from anyone, because everyone has a different perspective on life and a different story. The more we start to branch out of our age group, the wiser we will be.”