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Something about Carleton pushed him to be different, John Cannon ’15 says.
Although he considered himself an average student in high school, coming to Carleton opened up a world of possibilities for him. “They push you to learn who you are here,” says Cannon, from Toronto. “And I realized I could be anyone I wanted to be.”
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More than anything, Tenzin Rigden ’15 says his parents motivate him to succeed. They both have emigrated twice—once from Tibet to India, then again from India to the United States. His father worked two jobs, all so the family could have a better life.
“We always struggled a lot,” Tenzin says. “My sister came to Carleton first—she graduated in 2011—and we’re the first generation to go to college in our family.”
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As a first-generation, low-income student, Annie Sinner ’16 knows she’s a minority on campus. And she’s passionate about why that needs to change.
“There should be more economic diversity on campuses everywhere—it’s not just a Carleton issue,” Annie says.
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After six or seven job interviews in just a few days’ time, Emily Shack ’15 landed her dream job: software engineer at Google in Mountain View, California.
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Today is a relaxation day for Veronica Garcia ’16. For two days a week, she’s primarily in photography class, and the rest of her week is spent studying and exploring the city of Kyoto, Japan. So she’ll grab coffee in a café, walk around the city, and contemplate her individual research project.
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When Pat Flynn began the Custodial Scholarship Fund for Carleton students in 1993, she hoped it would continue past her retirement—but she had no idea it would one day benefit her own granddaughter, Lily Eisenthal ’16.
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Junior Anna Guasco’s experience in an academic civic engagement (ACE) course inspired her to approach environmental issues from an American Studies perspective and research Channel Islands in a way that had never been done before.
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Though he came to Carleton wanting nothing more than “good grades in general,” Joe Soonthornsawad soon found so many fields of study that appealed to him that it was difficult to choose just one. Now a music and sociology/anthropology double major, Joe says his learning and life is all about where his passions intersect.
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As a top swimmer and a top student in high school, Issa Wilson got used to people telling him he was special. In fact, he often agreed with them.
That’s what made his first term at Carleton so rough.
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Alexandra Mayn, better known as Sasha, always knew she’d need to leave home to get the education she wanted. A native of Kazan, Russia, Sasha loves the classics, Latin and linguistics. But in Russia, she says, education emphasizes memorizing facts over cultivating skills.
