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.
It is unbelievable how fast a quarter runs in this MSC program. The closer we come to the end, the even faster we feel. I feel like the third quarter has just started but yesterday was already the last day of it. In order to give a toast to the completion of our third quarter [...]
Globalization is a topic that we have talked a lot about in the last quarter. Last Friday, in our class of Diversity at Workplace, we again discussed about this topic but with some very different perspectives and more specific to the role it plays in working environment. From my own experience, I strongly agree that [...]
We have many times talked an discussed in class about social media and its values. However, reading this below interview between Aatif Bokhari and Laurie Boettcher, two of our classmates gave me a new understanding about chosing Social Media as a career. I think some of our classmates who have also chosen Social media or [...]
We have been discussing recently in class that the best resources for us to gain more knowledge is only from class lectures, books or online materials but by talking and networking with people around us, we can also learn a lot from their experiences. Just like the comparison of professor Paul Leonardi, if knowledge is an [...]
This Sunday, April 29, 2012, from 1 to 4 pm, all Northwestern Students, Faculty and Staffs as well as Evanston residents are welcome to the Deering Meadow to join in the annual Art Festival organized by Northwestern Community Development Corps. This is an on-campus showcase which includes performance, interactive, and display art produced by Evanston community members and Northwestern [...]
In my class about Managing Diversity yesterday, I was quite surprise to know that in a developed country like the United States, there still exists a little inequality between men and women at workplace. It is not only that women are less likely to be promoted to a higher position but there is also a [...]
It’s very interesting to me that during this MSC program, I have learned a new perspective about social media and the different ways to take advantage of it in my life. Since I first knew about it, I have always thought about social media as a means of entertainment rather than a tool to support [...]
A good opportunities for us whose majors are in the field of Communication and Marketing is finally in the air. Beside all the other career fairs that have been organizing on-campus for students from all majors, tomorrow, April 4th, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm, School of Communication and the Medill School of Journalism are [...]
And another new quarter has begun. Yesterday was the first day of class and it seems that we are all going to be even busier this quarter than the last one. My impression when coming to class yesterday was seeing everyone holding two very thick and heavy books in hands. This means lots of readings [...]
For the international students who have just received the admission email from MSC program, I would like to congrats all of you for you having been chosen to become a member in a very good program. I have been writing a lot about the reasons why this program is good at least to me but [...]