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00:00 >> I'm a pretty hard worker.
00:02 It's like a huge personal drive to me.
00:05 I've always told myself to try,
00:08 and be better than I was yesterday.
00:10 My name is Mariah Gleeson,
00:11 and I'm a masters students studying exercise science.
00:14 One of the reasons I chose Oakland University was to
00:17 relocate back to Michigan and be closer to my family.
00:20 I never expected to be a graduate student,
00:23 but I gained a lot of insight from my mentors,
00:26 and they've always pushed me to get a graduate degree.
00:30 They're getting their PhDs, and they're professors.
00:33 So they all encouraged me because they enjoyed the field,
00:36 and I also enjoy the field.
00:37 I knew if I stopped school after my undergrad,
00:40 I wouldn't be able to get back into it,
00:43 and that made me want to continue to graduate school.
00:46 One of the things at Oakland University I discovered was that I love to teach,
00:53 and I want to get my PhD to contribute to research.
00:56 I like being there for the students,
00:58 and I want them to have a valuable learning experience.
01:00 If you're on the fence to get a graduate degree,
01:03 I say if you really love the field,
01:06 then pursue it.
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00:00 >> Studying history is a lot like journalism.
00:02 You're headed toward a destination and it can be
00:04 excruciating because you're pulling in all of this information.
00:07 You're like, "How in the world am I going to fit this,
00:08 or am I going to expand this?"
00:10 It's a Rubik's cube of trying to figure out how
00:12 can I present it in this organized way so my reader is like,
00:15 "He's brought me an insight that I didn't know before."
00:20 My name is John Stoll and I am the business columnist for The Wall Street Journal.
00:25 I graduated from Oakland University in 2000 with a history degree.
00:29 My job is to basically try to take
00:33 the biggest business issues going on in corporate America
00:37 and make them accessible for the weekend reader.
00:42 The most exciting part of my job is to break the news.
00:45 To be able to go to your readers and say,
00:47 "Here's something you didn't know."
00:49 It's always an adrenaline rush to be the first.
00:52 The truth is very hard to get at.
00:55 It takes a lot of research and a lot of conversations with
00:58 a diverse group of sources and a diverse group of
01:01 people to really get at what really happened.
01:04 That's what journalists do. Journalists try to tell you the truth.
01:07 I'm always using the tools of trying to find the primary sources,
01:11 trying to find people who were there.
01:12 I went to Oakland University's history department never
01:15 thinking that I was going to be a historian or teach history.
01:17 I wanted to learn how to study and I wanted to
01:20 learn how to research and I wanted to learn how to make arguments.
01:23 Now, a lot of people would say, "What are you going to do with a history degree?"
01:25 You can do a lot with a history degree.
01:26 You're going to learn a lot about how to classify information, how to find people,
01:30 how to relate with people and talk to people and empathize,
01:32 and see the other side of things that maybe you hadn't seen before.
01:36 You don't have to go anywhere else to get the best history education.
01:40 You'll get it at Oakland. Because of my history degree, I understand.
00:00 >> In a year unlike any other, we discovered new ways to strengthen our connections.
00:05 And when communities needed help, we used our creativity to lend a hand.
00:11 We led movements and stepped up to uncover a greater truth about ourselves.
00:16 That we can overcome the odds and open doors we didn't know existed.
00:21 That we can still learn, grow and discover.
00:22 Because when we believe in ourselves, the possibilities are endless.
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