We, as students, don’t really know what the future holds for us after we graduate. Some people leave Puerto Rico; others stay. Some work on what they studied while others work on something completely different. The story of Grace Cruz gives us a glimpse of what our future could be and how different what we think or want can be. It was an honor to have interviewed such a happy and bright soul.
HC: What’s your full name?
GC: My full name is Grace Marie Cruz Ayala
HC: Where do you work?
GC: I work for the program Upward Bound at the Interamerican University in San Germán
HC: Where did you study in your college years?
GC: I studied here at the Interamerican University of San Germán
HC: What did you study?
GC: I studied a Bachelors in the Arts of Psychology
HC: What is the thing you enjoyed the most, while studying at the Interamerican University?
GC: The best thing about studying at the Interamerican University for me was the comfort of being close to my home and the part – time job I had. The Interamerican campus is comfortable itself, good parking, classrooms and the library.
HC: Can you share an experience or story that happened while you were studying?
GC: An experience that happened while I was a student (she laughs) when I fell in front of the library in my last semester at the university.
HC: If you didn’t studied psychology, what would you have studied and why?
GC: I would have become a History teacher. Where I work, I tutor for Spanish and History class and I love educating.
HC: How does it feel to work where you once studied?
GC: It feels like I am still studying. The comfort of not being lost, ever, because I know where everything is.
HC: If you could change anything at the Interamerican University to make it better, what would you change?
GC: Change something?… I would change the tedious process of enrollment at the University.
HC: Do you have any advice for students that are reading this?
GC: My advice would be to keep studying and to remember that studying here is like the slogan says “A University Paradise” I would love to study again, probably really soon (she shared)