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0:06 wellactually was brought in my horizons
0:08 because it's allowed me to really see
0:10 how much of an impact China's gonna have
0:13 in the 21st century not only for people
0:16 that are going into business but also
0:17 people that are interested in diplomacy
0:19 China as a country and Chinese as a
0:23 languages or just becoming more and more
0:24 relevant every day by studying Chinese
0:27 that's allowed me to see just how
0:28 relevant it is in regards to my personal
0:31 studies a lot of people are saying
0:32 Chinese now but not everyone is studying
0:34 Chinese at the level that flagship
0:36 teaches so because we're in the flagship
0:39 we were kind of elite in a way there are
0:42 a lot of people that want those skills
0:43 working government working international
0:45 business working in nonprofits all these
0:48 people want Westerners who are fluent in
0:50 Chinese by being in the flagship after
0:52 graduation is just gonna be really easy
0:54 to get any job flagship is a program
0:59 that's sponsored by the federal
1:00 government so there's a lot of
1:02 opportunities to get scholarships to do
1:03 study abroad and to study study the
1:06 language on a really deep kind of level
1:08 it's a four-year program but it pairs
1:10 really well with any major that you
1:11 might pick here at IU and it's you know
1:13 it's a great opportunity to add another
1:15 skill to you know your professional
1:17 portfolio before you graduate by doing
1:19 flagship I believe that I'm really
1:21 differentiated myself when it comes to
1:24 career prospects afterwards
1:27 I love my Chinese teachers the way I
1:29 could connect with them and the way
1:30 they're so passion about teaching me
1:32 their language and culture is really
1:34 inspiring and I really appreciate them
1:37 what's neat about the flagship is that
1:40 it's very intimate and so when I mean
1:44 intimate is that instead of just going
1:45 to a classroom and you know doing random
1:48 drills with your teacher in their
1:49 classmates the program is very catered
1:51 to what you want to do since I'm a
1:54 biochemistry major I'll learn Chinese
1:56 but also learn vocabulary in terms in my
1:59 field so right now I'm learning like the
2:01 periodic table in Chinese so it's very
2:03 catered to what I want to do with my
2:05 major so I get to communicate with
2:10 international students has really really
2:12 given me very different perspectives
2:15 during my capstone year I had a study
2:17 for a semester at Nanjing University I
2:19 took I wrote them two direct courses
2:21 there and that fit with my International
2:24 Studies major and then I'm currently
2:25 doing a internship a full-time
2:28 internship in general I feel like
2:30 Chinese people are really curious about
2:31 either American culture or other
2:34 cultures so every day at work I go to
2:38 lunch with my co-workers and they are
2:40 always asking me questions about
2:42 politics society culture every day I
2:45 feel like I'm in freakin president being
2:50 from a small town in Indiana when I
2:51 first came to Beijing for the first time
2:53 it was quite overwhelming walking down
2:56 the street in Shanghai is an experience
2:59 unlike any other place I've been in the
3:01 world it's just crazy to know that 25
3:05 million people live in this one
3:06 condensed area honestly I feel like
3:08 flagship is a network
3:10 not only a professional network also a
3:13 group of friends when I first came to IU
3:15 it was such a big school and so when I
3:18 did keep into flagship I definitely got
3:22 that sense of like smaller community
3:24 within the bigger IU community my
3:26 flagship classmates aren't just people
3:29 I'm in class with but they're my friends
3:31 they're my family they're people that by
3:34 the end of the day we're all in it
3:35 together and in the bond that we've
3:37 developed is this really strong flagship
3:41 students are definitely between the
3:43 table everyone's here with a purpose
3:46 they're kind they're empathetic they're
3:48 interesting their interest is there any
3:50 there everything global citizens need to
3:52 be in the 21st century I am so happy I
3:57 joined the flagship the support and the
4:00 help of God it's been amazing after
4:03 living in China and being a student in
4:06 the flagship program I can identify more
4:08 as a global citizen first I think the
4:11 bonds and friendships that I've
4:13 established between the flagship program
4:15 I see them to lasting
4:17 or a really long time I would not do
4:20 college any differently