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At age 22, Stanford University’s current president was studying at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. During this time in his life, MTL was passionate about philosophy and physiology - and was looking for a way to combine these interests in his fu
During his senior year at UCSD, Snehal Naik was 22 years old, and a Commissioner of Programming for Student Government. After coming into college as a pre-med, Snehal quickly discovered a new passion for Student Affairs, and was able to plan an
Before becoming the Assistant Dean and Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life at Stanford, Amanda Rodriguez was all over the place at age 22. Two months before graduating from UC Irvine, she discovered a passion for student affairs, and decid
After graduating from Stanford, Chris Piech spent his 22nd year seeing the world and doing nothing. As he watched his friends immediately create startups, work at big companies, and begin graduate school, Chris decided he wanted more time to th
During age 22, Chris Lorway spent half of his year at Dalhousie University and the other half at the University of Western Ontario. When the President of Dalhousie wanted to end the arts programs, Chris took a stand by taking his love for the a
Alex Ketley started dancing at age 7, found ballet at age 14, and joined the SF Ballet Company at age 19. By the time he was 22, Alex decided to leave the company to follow a passion for choreography. He worked on many projects over the years,
Emelyn dela Peña has been the Associate Vice Provost for Inclusion, Community and Integrative Learning at Stanford for the last year. However, back at age 22, Emelyn was having an identity crisis about her future career options. She was a senio
At 22, Mark Duggan was completing a masters degree in Electrical Engineering at MIT. Unsure of his next steps, he applied to law school and took an economics class to begin preparing. However, this class uncovered a passion for Econ, and began
Right after finishing high school, Susie Brubaker-Cole started college at the University of Oregon. By the time she was 22 she was feeling lost, had dropped out of school, and moved to San Francisco. She spent time there saving up money to retu
Six months before turning 22, Zac Sargeant he met his wife at a skydiving center where he was working on the weekends. During the week, Zac worked at a winery during the day and a restaurant at night, trying to figure out what he wanted to do n
For the majority of her 22nd year, Ankita Rakhe was a senior at Vanderbilt. During the second half of her time there, she devoted her energy to three passions: a service organization that focused on tutoring, the South Asian Student Organizatio
Jerusalem, Israel is where Patricia Karlin-Neumann found herself at age 22, training to become one of the first women Rabbis. A year before this, she was finishing her degree in Nonviolent Social Change at an experimental college, asking her ad
For more than 20 years, Donnovan Somera Yisrael has served as a coach and lecturer for Wellbeing at Stanford. However, at age 22, Donnovan was graduated from Stanford and just finishing a summer at Sierra Camp. He came back to his parents home
In 1982, Valerie Red-Horse was 22 years old, and she was getting married. She met her husband at UCLA while she was a cheerleader and he was a football player. After graduating, her husband was drafted to the Oakland Raiders, and Valerie spent
In this episode, Colin Kahl takes us back before age 22, discussing how his childhood and upbringing have influenced his choices and actions over the years. When he graduated from the University of Michigan, an incomplete thesis led him to cont
In 2011, A-lan Holt graduated from Stanford with a degree in CSRE. Ten days later, she moved to New York without a job, determined to realize her passion for playwriting and the arts. She tried flipping an internship into a job, spent time in m
Before joining the Stanford’s Mechanical Engineering faculty as the first female professor, Sheri Sheppard spent time working at different jobs in the motor industry. She had always loved cars, and after receiving a bachelors in Engineering Mec
At 22, Dereca Blackmon was in New York, participating as an extra in the Spike Lee film Malcolm X. Following her desire to be a filmmaker, she stopped out of undergrad for a short period of time, eventually returning to finish her degree a few
Colin talks about graduating and starting to work at Equinox as a personal trainer before realizing that so many of the aspects he enjoyed about the role centered around improving body image and mental health. Having staffed as a PHE himself in
Matt Snipp was 22 during his senior year at UC Davis, and had already decided that he would be attending graduate school the coming fall. After spending a summer working with teenagers in Sacramento through a low income housing project, he pack
After finishing her undergraduate career at age 22, Allyson Hobbs took six months off to spend time with her sister and her family. A former internship at Goldman Sachs helped her determine that investment banking wasn’t what she wanted to do,
After graduating from Cal, Gabe Wolfenstein headed to work as a paralegal in a law firm in Los Angeles, interested in potentially going to law school and still living in his childhood bedroom. After a few months, Gabe realized that he really wa
The day after turning 22, Mackenzie Russell got engaged, and soon moved to northwest Arkansas. With a brand new drivers license and a comparative literature degree, she got a job in market research at Sam’s Club Corporate Headquarters. However,
In 1988, Mehran Sahami showed up at Stanford for the first time as a freshman, having never visited campus before. He went on to become an RA, an RCC, and an RF during his time as an undergraduate and grad student. His involvement in the CS106
DJ Dull-Mackenzie, Stanford’s current Visitor Relations Director, transferred into Stanford as an undergraduate from community college. As he approached age 22, DJ decided to pivot from stem to the humanities and changed his major to communicat
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