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| Megan Seto. (Nick Pearce Photo) |
She’ll be the first in her family to pursue post-graduate studies, but Megan Seto feels “more than prepared” by her background in arts.
“I’m so proud of those two letters ‘BA,’” says Ms. Seto, of Halifax.
Now with her arts degree in hand, she’s preparing to enter law school at the University of Ottawa.
“I’ve learned a lot from my major in history and from my unique minor in law and society and I’m going to use it to pursue what I love – criminal law,” she says. “The minor offers a fantastic opportunity to see if law is the path for you. It’s one of the reasons I chose Dalhousie.”
The introductory course is taught by a law professor and numerous experts were invited as guest speakers.
“This university gave me a multidisciplinary experience in law as an undergraduate student. It was a different way of thinking: we read cases, took an analytical approach, and did the same type of homework expected from first-year law students.”
For her language requirement, she opted for a relatively new course in Mandarin. “The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences offers so much choice for languages. What a collection – Italian, Russian, Greek, Latin, French, Spanish and now, Hebrew,” she says. “The language departments have so many community connections and they welcome you with open arms.”
As the president of the Arts and Social Sciences student society (not to mention her own history department society) she had responsibility for representing 4,000 students.
“I love the sense of community from being involved in student life. My best friend is from classics and I would not have known her without the networking,” she says.
Students helped get two major new initiatives off the ground, an undergraduate student academic conference and a mentorship program for first- year students to reduce attrition.
“I love student diplomacy – student apathy is overstated,” she says. “It takes one person to get started.”