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Name Carolina Sanchez
From Mexico City, Mexico
Program Biology (honours in Ecology)
From undergraduate research to travelling the world, this third-year biology honours
student is capitalizing on every opportunity UBC has to offer
For every year that Carolina Sanchez has studied on UBC’s Vancouver campus, she has ventured abroad in the name of higher
education. In first year she studied water quality as a co-op student (http://www.coop.ubc.ca/) in an environmental
microbiology lab in Mexico City. In second year she worked in a turtle conservation camp on a remote Costa Rican beach. And
next semester she’ll jet off to Australia to study at the University of Queensland, in Brisbane, through UBC’s Go Global program
(http://students.ubc.ca/about/go-global) .
“I realized that the education we are getting at university goes way beyond what we learn in lectures,” says Carolina. “Everything
you do outside of school – from extracurricular activities, attending talks and presentations, having conversations with friends
and meeting new people – is incredibly valuable in teaching us about ourselves and the world around us.”
The magnetism of the bustling city and the beauty of the lush campus attracted Carolina to Vancouver, but attending UBC also
held the promise of meaningful extracurricular involvement – particularly in sustainability – and in-depth studies with abundant
undergraduate research opportunities.
“Consider the great variety of activities that you can get involved in outside of academics at UBC.” – Carolina Sanchez,
3rd year, Biology (honours in Ecology)
“It was amazing to be able to apply some of my classroom knowledge in this setting and to see how our research would be used
toward helping the area being protected from tourism and development,” she says.
Carolina has packed a lifetime of incredible experiences into her time at UBC so far, but she says what’s made it so amazing has
been the people. “Living in first-year residence was overall a highlight,” she says. “What has made my experience so special has
been the great group of friends I have made here.”
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