04/29/2024 | News release | Distributed by Public on 04/29/2024 07:35
Y ou won't find a senior more involved with Georgia College & State University museums than Caroline Cole, a graduating history major and English minor.
Introduced to Matthew Davis, director of historic museums, at the Presidential Scholarship Competition in 2019, she's worked at the museums since her second day of college.
That year she wrote 36 essays for Oxford.
"It was hard moving to a whole other country with all these new people who I'd never met before," Cole said. "I'd never done something like that before, but I made the active decision to put myself out there."
"I made some really good friends, and I had a good time-it was such a good experience," she said.
Dr. Brian Newsome, dean of the John E. Sallstrom Honors College, and the International Education Center were instrumental in getting Cole to Oxford. She credits them and a laundry list of incredible faculty for her positive experience at Georgia College.
"I'm sure I'm leaving out a bunch of people, because the professors have been my favorite part," Cole said. "The professors have been so amazing, and that's part of the reason I came to Georgia College. I wouldn't have been Dr. Scott Buchanan's personal research assistant, even though I'm a history major."
"Those kinds of things are why I just love Georgia College," she said.
From humble beginnings in Buford, Georgia, to Georgia College, Cole is now on her way back to the United Kingdom. Soon, she'll start a 12-month Master of Letters program in museum and heritage studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
"It's been really rewarding, and it's funny, because I have grown a lot academically, but I feel like I've grown more socially and as a person more than anything," Cole said. "In college, you learn so much about yourself and other people."
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