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"My peers allowed me to see the importance of diversity in opinions by bringing up new ideas and arguments."
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"Curiosity overtook my thoughts as I remembered approaching and dissecting topics I had little to no prior knowledge of and coming to love them."
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"I now have brothers and sisters from all 128 countries and 50 states."
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"YYGS provided a base, but the true education and growth came from the people we met along the way."
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"People, whether the instructors or the students, are the essential part of YYGS, giving the program its heartbeat."
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"I am no longer the girl who was afraid of asking questions- I’ve become, instead, a confidently inquisitive scientist who’s eager to discover new things about the world around me."
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"YYGS changed my life and gave me the inspiration to pursue what I love, no matter how difficult it is."
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"Learning does not only happen in lectures, seminars, or capstone groups, but it also happens during meals, family time, and with your suitemates at night."
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"I had always considered myself a citizen of the world, but when I came to YYGS, I –for the very first time- got a real sense of what that really meant."
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"Meeting a surprisingly great number of diverse students and learning about them and their cultures in a melting pot of ethnicities is entirely different than reading about these people in the news."
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"In every part of the program, I had conversations about different cultures, languages, lifestyles and religions that opened my eyes to the value of our differences."
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"To me, the world was the immediate people around me, my community and to the greater extent, my country. However, that definition has changed a great deal."
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"Many of the conversations I had with students from different countries, especially from the Middle East and Asia, helped open my eyes to the current situations in those places."
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"I learned that we are too young to have boundaries placed between us because of our diversity. We share great things in common."
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"Bringing together young people coming from different horizons, urging them to work together to solve current problems in the world is the best way to assure the world a future generation of honest, dedicated leaders who respect the beliefs, traditions and lifestyles of others."
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"From the knowledge and perspectives I gathered from discussions to the research skills I acquired during the Capstone Project, my cognitive abilities were stretched and extended beyond my limits."
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