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In the spirit of the ten things you haven't done meme thing, you haven't been put in the recruiting brochure for your alma mater. Well, I'm about to.
I could really use some suggestions. A while back, I was contacted about being put into the recruiting literature for Tulsa. So, I did an interview and they sent me a neat little thing. I have until tomorrow to revise it, and here's what I've come up with so far. It's not grammatically yet, but it's still fairly good. Hopefully it's good enough to make people at least thing about TU.
Also, I need an idea for a picture. When they're doing science students, it's easy to get them into a lab or something for recruiting purposes. I could do the usual thing for arts and sciences by taking my picture in a room full of books but that's so overdone. Any ideas on that?
Here's what they have so far.
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Daniel Tu, junior, from Ft. Smith Arkansas. History major
BSU, Student senator for the Student Association, president of the Vietnamese Student Association
Opinion columns for the Collegian, TU’s student newspaper.
Also Mortar Board community service.
Despite having family ties and several friends attending the the University of Arkansas, Daniel Tu chose to come to The University of Tulsa because he liked the campus and the idea of attending a smaller school.
Daniel began his career at TU as Electrical Engineering major, but changed to History because “I realized I was more passionate about it,” he says. Daniel’s parents are refugees from Vietnam who came to U.S. in 1980. “As I learned more about my family’s history, and learned more about history in general, it really struck a chord in me,” Daniel says.
He says a letter from history professor, Paul Rahe, with taught an honors class in Greek history, helped convinced him he could be good at history. “At TU, You get professors that are interested in you, the person, not just you, the student,” he says.
Daniel has found that the extra attention combined with hard work has paid off for him.
He’s involved with the Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge and he recently attended a conference Texas Tech University where he gave a paper on the history of South Vietnam’s first president. Daniel was the only undergraduate presenting at the conference.
At TU Daniel has found a place to study something that is deeply personal to him and he feels TU has prepared him to continue his studies in the future. His senior honors project involves interviewing refugees from Vietnam, and that he will likely go on to graduate school in American History or South East Asian Studies or perhaps both.
In addition to his academic work, TU has a lot of other activities to be involved in, he says. “I might be kind of strange in that I like to be involved in a lot of things at once, and TU allows you to do just that. Not only are there opportunities to join a wide array of groups and programs, but if you find out that there isn’t a group that already exists, you can create your own.”
Daniel says he noticed the very diverse student body at TU. There are a lot of people from different backgrounds, doing a lot of different things, and it’s not hard to find them if you want to.
“If you’re involved in activities outside the class, it’s easy, almost inevitable, that you will have a lot of contact with people outside the group you know,” he says.
Daniel knows that whether it is working on community missions with the Baptist Student Union or the friends he’s made working in the student government association or building a homecoming float for fifteen hours straight, that for him TU has made a world of difference.
I could really use some suggestions. A while back, I was contacted about being put into the recruiting literature for Tulsa. So, I did an interview and they sent me a neat little thing. I have until tomorrow to revise it, and here's what I've come up with so far. It's not grammatically yet, but it's still fairly good. Hopefully it's good enough to make people at least thing about TU.
Also, I need an idea for a picture. When they're doing science students, it's easy to get them into a lab or something for recruiting purposes. I could do the usual thing for arts and sciences by taking my picture in a room full of books but that's so overdone. Any ideas on that?
Here's what they have so far.
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Daniel Tu, junior, from Ft. Smith Arkansas. History major
BSU, Student senator for the Student Association, president of the Vietnamese Student Association
Opinion columns for the Collegian, TU’s student newspaper.
Also Mortar Board community service.
Despite having family ties and several friends attending the the University of Arkansas, Daniel Tu chose to come to The University of Tulsa because he liked the campus and the idea of attending a smaller school.
Daniel began his career at TU as Electrical Engineering major, but changed to History because “I realized I was more passionate about it,” he says. Daniel’s parents are refugees from Vietnam who came to U.S. in 1980. “As I learned more about my family’s history, and learned more about history in general, it really struck a chord in me,” Daniel says.
He says a letter from history professor, Paul Rahe, with taught an honors class in Greek history, helped convinced him he could be good at history. “At TU, You get professors that are interested in you, the person, not just you, the student,” he says.
Daniel has found that the extra attention combined with hard work has paid off for him.
He’s involved with the Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge and he recently attended a conference Texas Tech University where he gave a paper on the history of South Vietnam’s first president. Daniel was the only undergraduate presenting at the conference.
At TU Daniel has found a place to study something that is deeply personal to him and he feels TU has prepared him to continue his studies in the future. His senior honors project involves interviewing refugees from Vietnam, and that he will likely go on to graduate school in American History or South East Asian Studies or perhaps both.
In addition to his academic work, TU has a lot of other activities to be involved in, he says. “I might be kind of strange in that I like to be involved in a lot of things at once, and TU allows you to do just that. Not only are there opportunities to join a wide array of groups and programs, but if you find out that there isn’t a group that already exists, you can create your own.”
Daniel says he noticed the very diverse student body at TU. There are a lot of people from different backgrounds, doing a lot of different things, and it’s not hard to find them if you want to.
“If you’re involved in activities outside the class, it’s easy, almost inevitable, that you will have a lot of contact with people outside the group you know,” he says.
Daniel knows that whether it is working on community missions with the Baptist Student Union or the friends he’s made working in the student government association or building a homecoming float for fifteen hours straight, that for him TU has made a world of difference.
