My name is Sheham Saif I'm a double
major in political science  and philosophy
and I've been studying
political science and philosophy since
freshman year. I chose to study at Wayne
State first and foremost because it was
in Detroit and Detroit is inherently a
political place to be and I knew that's
where I can really get a sense of what
I'm trying to learn as well get some
real world experience. Wayne State is an urban university and also we are really  close to downtown
and so I'm able to really work and see what I am learning in action in Detroit.
I didn't image going into Wayne State that I would be able to travel four different
countries, be a co-author of research,
do my own research, intern with the local
government, and just have the most
amazing even like text to text
communications with my professor.
Because the thing about Wayne State is people think about Wayne State as an
afterthought especially, with their
political science program. I just feel
like I really I don't know if I've done
a good job but I really want to stress
that like there's just so much
opportunity at Wayne State and there's
just not enough students taking
advantage of the opportunities we have here.
People look at Wayne State they
don't think about how big the name is
in fact Wayne State is such a great school
where you get such close interaction
with faculty, which at a university level
can be quite rare and you're working
with the best of the best faculty here
at Wayne State especially in the
political science department. So I was
really able to kind of harness that as
most of the students are to really
get what they want out of their learning
we're not all learning the same things
we're kind of learning what we wanted to
learn because we're able to have such
close interaction with faculty, reach out
to faculty that studies the same things
that we're interested in so that
bond is very close and I think that's
one of the most important things Wayne
State has to offer is the relationship
between faculty and students and the
political science department.
