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Lidiana Portales--Daily Trojan (U. Southern California)
Issue date: 10/20/03 Section: Campus Life
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(U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES - When Sara Clark entered Princeton University, she had at least one advantage over most other students. Clark had been living on a college campus since the age of 10.
Sarah Bury, a sophomore majoring in East Asian languages and cultures, had also already experienced college life before she arrived at the University of Southern California. She had lived at the University of California at Berkeley in elementary school.
Children of professors and graduate students sometimes get a taste of college life before they enroll at their own universities. Their early experiences in the bustling environment of a college campus can have lifelong influences.
THE EXPERIENCE
Clark spent much of her childhood living in university housing at USC. Her parents, Florence Clark and John Wolcott, are now faculty masters of North Residential College, but they took their first positions when Clark was still in elementary school. The family moved into a graduate student apartment complex in Downtown.
Clark said she treasures the nearly three years she spent as a part of the graduate student community, sharing their experiences and absorbing academic life.
"It was a wonderful experience," Clark said. "It forced me to mature more quickly. I learned how to talk to older people and interact with students on a daily basis."
Talking with students and watching them pursue their studies helped her learn about the things she might want to study in college, Clark said. She recently graduated from Princeton with a degree in English, a decision influenced by the graduate students she met.
Bury also said her perspective of education was affected by her early experiences of college life. From kindergarten to second grade, Bury lived in student housing at UC Berkeley while her father was in graduate school. Watching her father and other students pursue their studies reinforced the importance of a college education, she said.
Sarah Bury, a sophomore majoring in East Asian languages and cultures, had also already experienced college life before she arrived at the University of Southern California. She had lived at the University of California at Berkeley in elementary school.
Children of professors and graduate students sometimes get a taste of college life before they enroll at their own universities. Their early experiences in the bustling environment of a college campus can have lifelong influences.
THE EXPERIENCE
Clark spent much of her childhood living in university housing at USC. Her parents, Florence Clark and John Wolcott, are now faculty masters of North Residential College, but they took their first positions when Clark was still in elementary school. The family moved into a graduate student apartment complex in Downtown.
Clark said she treasures the nearly three years she spent as a part of the graduate student community, sharing their experiences and absorbing academic life.
"It was a wonderful experience," Clark said. "It forced me to mature more quickly. I learned how to talk to older people and interact with students on a daily basis."
Talking with students and watching them pursue their studies helped her learn about the things she might want to study in college, Clark said. She recently graduated from Princeton with a degree in English, a decision influenced by the graduate students she met.
Bury also said her perspective of education was affected by her early experiences of college life. From kindergarten to second grade, Bury lived in student housing at UC Berkeley while her father was in graduate school. Watching her father and other students pursue their studies reinforced the importance of a college education, she said.