{"id":66,"date":"2012-02-08T16:18:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T20:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/international-services\/?p=66"},"modified":"2013-06-10T11:09:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T15:09:58","slug":"maheen-bajwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/international-services\/2012\/02\/08\/maheen-bajwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Maheen Bajwa &#8217;12"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>fsg_json['fsg_post_66'] = [\n{id: 102, image: 'http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/international-services\/files\/2012\/02\/maheen.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/international-services\/files\/2012\/02\/maheen-150x150.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/international-services\/2012\/02\/08\/maheen-bajwa\/maheen\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>maheen<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/international-services\/2012\/02\/08\/maheen-bajwa\/maheen\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'}\n];<\/script>\n<p><a data-postid=\"fsg_post_66\" data-imgid=\"102\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/international-services\/files\/2012\/02\/maheen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-102\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/international-services\/files\/2012\/02\/maheen-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/international-services\/files\/2012\/02\/maheen-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/international-services\/files\/2012\/02\/maheen.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi guys,<\/p>\n<p>My name is Maheen Bajwa, I&#8217;m a senior Economics major at Vassar, and I&#8217;ve been an OIS intern for two years. I&#8217;m from Pakistan, but I&#8217;ve also lived in Singapore, Bahrain, Prague, and the UK before moving to Poughkeepsie.<\/p>\n<p>I transferred to Vassar after two years in the United Kingdom. In England, I was in lecture halls with 300 other students, and my professors were just teaching as a means to be able to do their research at the university. &#8220;Office hours&#8221; were really just one hour, once a week, for <em>all<\/em> students. I had maybe two assignments a turn, and for one class, 100% of my grade was the final exam. I wasn&#8217;t learning anything that way, and I wanted something different.<\/p>\n<p>I came to Vassar because it was small and liberal arts. To be honest, I didn&#8217;t really know what that even entailed when I arrived. But I can say for sure, it has been the best education I could have imagined for college. The majority of classes I&#8217;ve taken here have been Econ classes, and I go to my professors&#8217; office hours every chance I get. It&#8217;s a great opportunity to get help if I don&#8217;t understand how to do the problem sets or what went on in class. The nice thing is, your professors will not only remember your names here, but where you&#8217;re from, what languages you speak, what your interests are, what you struggle with, and whatever else you tell them. And if you work hard and put in the effort, they&#8217;ll definitely notice.<\/p>\n<p>And as for my experiences with other international offices, well they definitely don&#8217;t compare to OIS at Vassar! Andrew, Mariyah, and all of us work reaaaalllyyy hard to make your lives easier and more fun here. I&#8217;m someone who needs to be surrounded by different cultures and diversity, and I struggled during my first here to find where I fit in. But then I got more involved with OIS and my best friends are all international students. And I would have no idea what to do with my time if I wasn&#8217;t spending it at OIS! Well actually, that&#8217;s not true&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sporcle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> This<\/a> is where I spend a lot of my time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi guys, My name is Maheen Bajwa, I&#8217;m a senior Economics major at Vassar, and I&#8217;ve been an OIS intern for two years. 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