Silvia Trang Le is an international student from Vietnam. She got her bachelor degree in Economic and Management from University Toulouse 1, France. Silvia is able to speak fluently 4 languages: Vietnamese, English, French and Spanish. She started working since she was in college and her working experiences varies in many fields such as Marketing, Communication, Food Service, Teaching English and also in arts performance. She realized the importance of communication in all her jobs and decided to take part in the MSC program.
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Silvia Trang Le, Class of 2012
Among the four quarters of this MSC program, I think this last and shortest quarter is where I am getting the most knowledge. In every week of my public speaking class, each of the student will have to give a speech with many different topics: about life, about health care, about relationship, about the environment, [...]
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Silvia Trang Le, Class of 2012
This is already the forth week of this last quarter and it means we only have two more weeks to go until our graduation. Many of us are starting to count down on MSC Facebook and it makes me feel very eager. This last quarter is really fast, even faster than I expected it to [...]
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Silvia Trang Le, Class of 2012
Check out this article and see how many options a degree in communication can give us. Effective communication is really the key to the success of many types of jobs. The writer of this article mentioned about 9 jobs for communication but I believe that with this Master Degree in Communication, we can even have [...]
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Silvia Trang Le, Class of 2012
Public speaking, it is not something dangerous like bungee jumping or sky diving but many of us are usually afraid of doing it. Even I myself, despite having been working as emcee for some TV programs in several years, I have many times felt nervous before getting in front of many people and start taking. [...]
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Silvia Trang Le, Class of 2012
I’ve just read an article written by Dawn Dugan about the 10 global trends that are killing our career on Salary.com and realized that all the knowledge and skills that we get from this MSC program can be a great resource that can rescues us from being abandoned. Those challenges are:
1. Global Talent Seeking
As countries [...]
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Silvia Trang Le, Class of 2012
In reading the books of this week for the Communication, Management and Ethic class, I realized that communication is not only about skills we use but more importantly is how to show our value of ethic. From the courses in the previous quarters, I understand that every workplace that we get in is becoming much [...]
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Silvia Trang Le, Class of 2012
Northwestern International Office is calling all international students to share our NU experiences with our Consulate in Chicago. The purpose of this program is to build a better relationship between the school and the Consulates of different countries so that students like us will be served better in the future. This is a great opportunity [...]
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Silvia Trang Le, Class of 2012
Among many advantages that Northwestern University offer to their students, the school library is a huge resource that to me is very helpful in my study. Besides a collection of five million volumes and 14 terabytes of unique digital content which includes a portfolio of distinguished special collections, the library also connects users to hundreds of scholarly [...]
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Silvia Trang Le, Class of 2012
In many job search workshops that I attended, the advisors mentioned a lot about how graduate students can add more value to our career by showing the employers the skills in our study that can definitely be transferred to our jobs. This is a very important point beside talking about the working experiences that we [...]
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Silvia Trang Le, Class of 2012
Being an international student studying in a country that is half way round the world far from my home, everything that I find, see or deal with is always a new lesson. Eight months in this program up till now has given me much more than I expected. Even though there was sometimes that I [...]