July 8, 2009 (My Second Day)

My second day began with a walk to Claudia Merson's office. Claudia is the director of partnership between Yale University and public schools. She works with school principles, administrators from Yale, and librarians (because they have a lot of information on different topics) to set up different activities for students to expand their knowledge beyond the education they learn in school. She has a partnership with Hill Regional Career High School and COOP where she's been apart of for 10 years and has set up programs like SCHOLAR, tutoring programs, and many other programs, in hope of letting students experience and learn more educational things. Claudia really enjoys her occupation and says "It's the best job in the world" because she loves being able and being a part of giving more opportunities for students and extending and enriching the public school curriculum. What she is most excited about is the SCHOLAR program that is now reaching its 11th year. She loves how this program allows high school students be able to experience how their lives might be during their college years. What I found most interesting about Claudia was that she had first majored in the college of NYU in a theater major and later in Georgia State as an English major and Linguist minor. What also was interesting was that when she was young she wanted to be an actress and she says that when she retires she wants to be a world famous cartoonist.