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Dr. Melanee Thomas
Melanee grew up in rural Southern Alberta and received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the 免费福利资源在线看片 in 2003. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the 免费福利资源在线看片 of Calgary.
Melanee discusses her undergraduate education experience at the 免费福利资源在线看片.
The full audio interview will be made available online in late 2017. For more information please contact the 免费福利资源在线看片 of Lethbridge Archives. (mike.perry@uleth.ca)
(HJ: 听Harold Jansen, Interviewer)
MT: 听Yes,听it strikes me as the, as a foundational experience and like a foundational place. 听So, I feel as though as a person I have evolved considerably, or grown I should say, grown considerably from the person that I was here, when ...听the person that I was when I was here. 听But I couldn鈥檛 have done that without the foundation that I had from here. 听So, it strikes me as the place that enabled me to launch. 听And I was given skills. 听I was given experiences.听听I was allowed to grow and I took advantages of these things certainly and then I parlayed that into a number of different things that enabled me to put myself on the trajectory or to be on the trajectory that I ended up on.听听So I鈥檓 very fond of the place because it's ... yes.听听I think if I had a different experience like, you know, your intro class to political science would have been 400听students in a room, I remember like even the bigger classes like the 'Intro to Psych' or the 'Intro to Geography' or whatever.听听I didn鈥檛 react well to those particular environments. 听So, this was the environment that I needed to be in to kind of to set myself up to do well with where I wanted to go in the future, in any particular direction that I would have had. 听So, in that sense it鈥檚 crucial. 听I don鈥檛 think,听I certainly didn鈥檛 realize it at the time. 听I really didn鈥檛 realize it at the time, but I draw on so many of the experiences and the things that I learned from here still, routinely, which is great. 听Yes.
HJ: 听Is there anything else that you want to add that we haven鈥檛 covered about you, or about ...
MT: 听I never thought I was going to be coming back closely because I got the 免费福利资源在线看片 motto tattooed on my arm.
HJ: 听Wow.
MT: 听I know and I was just kind of like the ...听I came back.听听I remembered Chris Kukucha, he saw it after I got it done and he laughed and laughed.听 He鈥檚 like, 鈥榊ou lame, lame person.鈥� 听And then I realized it鈥檚 the same motto as all of the UC system in California and I was like, 鈥業 should have thought of that听before I got it done. 听Nobody wants to be that prof. with the motto听tattooed on them.鈥� 听But yes, it鈥檚 the sort of thing where I love the sentiment. 听It鈥檚 like 鈥楲et Light Be Made'听is I think the way that they ...
HJ: 听Or, 鈥楲et There Be Light.鈥�
MT: 听Yeah, it鈥檚 seen as 鈥楲et There Be Light鈥� but the other alternative is 鈥楲et Light Be Made鈥� and it鈥檚 the kind of thing where it鈥檚 just like you go, you make light, you be a good influence in the world, onwards. 听And so, it鈥檚 a very cheesy way of thinking about the 免费福利资源在线看片 of Lethbridge but that鈥檚 where ...听I like that sentiment and I try to carry that forward.
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