Outstanding International Student Achievements

4 June 2024


By Yifei Ren

Congratulations to everyone who made it to the end of spring term and end of school year! For freshman international students, I am happy for each one of you who made it through the first year. To all graduating international students, I will miss you all very much and I hope you enjoyed the last trimester. Sophomores and juniors, I am so happy to see that we are still here and have more time to spend with each other.

Now I would like to address some outstanding international student achievements. I have seen many familiar faces at the Honors Convocation on Friday. I am very delighted to find out that us, international students, are doing so well academically. Congratulations again to all who are nominated as awards winners, students with fellowships and mortar board members.
Across all of the categories, we had 63 awards that were won by ISL students! 
I have also seen more and more international students participating in extracurricular activities. Big congratulations to international students who are part of Carleton’s frisbee teams (Kelly in Syzygy)and ballroom dance team (Ostap, Defne, Artem, Marta, Peter, Rahim). Everytime I see Carleton instagram posting about your amazing tournaments and winning, I feel empowered. I also would like to say thank you to the international student who designed the Rotblatt graphic t-shirt this year (Rahim). You single handedly improved the entire school’s aesthetics. I am truly grateful for all the accomplishments international students have achieved in the past year. I understand the efforts we made behind the scenes and thus appreciate these achievements more.

Know of any International Student Achievement and want to brag about it to us? Send Fátima Ramos (framos@carleton.edu) an email with the student’s name and info and we would gladly put this into our email blast!