Diverse Sources Interviews

Name: Santiago Marroquin
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Major: Physics
Occupation: AP-Target
Race/Ethnicity: Hispanic
Class: Middle
Geography: Dallas, Texas

1. "No I have not."
2. "I just don't have time. I have to work, to pay for school, so to go to another place to study where I wouldn't be able to have a job to pay for it just doesn't fit my financial situation."
3. "Maybe offering more scholarships. I know for a lot of them scholarships are already offered, but offering a scholarship that would pay more than just what the tuition would be, maybe offering housing and a per diem as well, something that style, would make it more accessible.
3. I think you benefit from study abroad or internships because you are put in a different situation, different environment than what you are used to. You're not just in a classroom."
4. "The downside is that a lot of them are unpaid, so that kind of processes out those who can't afford to not be paid."

Name: Adrianna Gallardo

Age: 18

Gender: Female

Major: Pre-Nursing (Freshman)

Occupation: Student

Race/ethnicity: Caucasian

Class: Low

Geography: Brownsville, TX

1. "No."

2. "The cost. I haven't really looked into the cost, but I feel like going halfway across the world probably costs a lot."

3. "I don't know. I never really think about it because it's never really been an option. I guess just lower the cost."

4. "I always like because if I were to study abroad it would always be somewhere like where I could learn their language or where it could benefit me. So I always think that is really cool."

5. N/A

Name: Sibyl Karowadia

Age:

Gender: Female

Major: Pre-Nursing (Freshman)

Occupation: Student

Race/Ethnicity: Indian

Class: Low

Geography: Cedar Park, TX

1. "No."

2. "Just starting freshman year, and it's just a lot in the beginning."

3. N/A

4. "If you go to a different country or something like that you learn something new and something you haven't seen before. It's kind of like you are experiencing different things."

5. "Being away from family is kind of hard sometimes. Some people can do it and some people can't.