Hi Marlee,
I hope this message finds you well. I came across this e-mail from you urging me to look into the CH department at Tufts as a high school senior. Fast forward four years and you’ll find a CH and Spanish double major, accomplished thesis writer (I interviewed 20 hispanic backstretch workers– 10 H-2B and 10 undocumented in Spanish and determined whether or not the H-2B guest worker program, in its current model, could serve as a large-scale national program for our nation’s undocumented workers–soon to be published (fingers crossed), and departmental award winner. I decided not to delete this e-mail in my comprehensive inbox purge and instead reflected on the impact you have had on my academic and life trajectory. I’ve never been able to articulate how your guidance throughout my senior year not only helped improve my SAT scores, but more importantly forced me to look inward and really discover my own interests and passions and begin to formulate my “life plan”. I am now at graduate school at tufts, pursuing an MPH. I am applying to medical school next fall.
I work as a volunteer interpreter at the Parker Clinic in Red Bank and at a free clinic here in Boston. Honduraide is still up and running and I’m focusing on procuring funding for a new burn unit. This fall, I TA-ed Intro to community health.
This is a long-overdue thank you but I hope you are doing well and enjoying getting to know another Johnson family member (only one more left after Alessandra…!). As an extension of our verbal sessions, I continue to barrage Alessandra with SAT vocab (she may not be the biggest fan BUT she did state that my continued use of “egregious” helped her decide between gregarious and egregious on the SAT).
PS: At Tufts, I developed a relationship with the admissions counselor who read my application. I will forever be known in the admissions department as “nalgene girl.”
Best,
