THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
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Past and present students recall their time on campus
ALUMNI
WHAT COMPANY DO YOU WORK FOR? WHAT DO YOU DO FOR THIS COMPANY?
I work as a publishing executive for the Middle East's largest magazine and media publishers. This means I get to work on a number of projects across our consumer and business titles, including "Harper's Bazaar Arabia," "Professional Jeweler," "Cosmopolitan Middle East," "Grazia," "Good Housekeeping Middle East" and "Time Out Dubai/Abu Dhabi/Qatar," etc.
I tend to lean more toward editorial and marketing work, whether it is putting together a special supplement, coming up with concepts, executing an event, advising on design or liaising with the advertising team on new business. A career in media in the Middle East poses its own challenges and advantages—in many ways it is expanding here where other world markets are struggling.
HOW DID BEING A JAYHAWK ENHANCE YOUR EXPERIENCE?
Almost everywhere I've been in the world I've found common
ground with someone about the university. Whether it's attending KU Alumni events when I'm in London visiting family, or Final Four watch parties with friends in Africa, UK, or the Middle East. I even found fellow Jayhawk fans in Syria. I was walking home from my gym in Damascus one day, wearing a much-loved Jayhawk t-shirt when out of nowhere, from across the street I heard a loud 'Rock Chalk Jayhawk!' The Jayhawk Nation extends a lot further than I ever could have imagined.
PATRICIA SIQUEIROS Germany
WHAT COMPANY DO YOU WORK FOR AND WHAT DO YOU DO FOR THEM?
STUDENT
the university, I have been able to participate in great conversations and also KU having such a huge range of international students helped me come in with a better attitude.
It is called Psyma. It's an international market research company, and
I got the internship as a Market Research assistant through AIESEC Kansas.
HOW HAS GRADUATING FROM KU HELPED YOU? It has helped me a lot. Through things I learned at
STUDENT
WHERE DID YOU GO ABROAD,
AND WHAT WERE YOU DOING
WHILE THERE?
I went abroad to Costa Rica and lived in San Jose, the capital city. I was there for
about six and a half months. I went primarily to better my language skills in Spanish and to speak every day with native speakers to really see how much I could grow within the language.
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