Professor Geetha Vaidyanathan Interview

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Interview With Professor Geetha Vaidyanathan

Professor Geetha is my economic professor. She is a senior lecturer from India. She majored in physics, chemistry, mathematics, and biology when she was studying in pre-college in India. When she came to the US university, she got a bachelor degree in business and accounting. She used to work in a commercial bank for one and a half years before she got married to her husband in the US. After her marriage, she felt more interested in economics over her college major, accounting, and decided to become a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Geetha is interested in interacting with young brains and have a flexibility working time as a professor.

As an Indian woman, she had a time of having troubles of her identity. Professor Geetha told me that back in her college in the US, she merely got involved in group discussions, she was always not included because she is a female and also an international, she was concluded to be a minority. Later on, as she became a professor, it was also harsh for her to be treated equally as a white teacher. Students would not view her as a good professor since she is a foreign teacher and also due to her accent. At every end of the semester, students are more rigorous to her than other professors. Students would set her a higher standard, because of her look and her race. …show more content…

She imagines that the world is going to be more diverse than ever before. And the ability to work with different people is critical to every student. Students can meet people from different cultures and different backgrounds, and they will see the different ways of thinking. As a result, they will be thinking in different angles and more critical. And the ability to think critically is also important in research. It will make us more self-aware and not in an egocentric

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