So my name is Alla Aboushim.
My major is anthropology with a pre-med track.
Anthropology is the study of humans.
More specifically,
their language and their culture,
and how they develop over time.
In medicine you do learn about how the body works and everything.
In anthropology you learn about humans.
So it over laps a lot in a sense that you
you get to look at how disease effect people and how they effect communities.
How people around the people that are affected by the viruses
are affected and how they react to that.
So that was really interesting.
My medical anthropology professor and now my doing anthropology professor
Brian McKenna, is kinda the person that really made me fall in love with anthropology.
He made it
easy to understand.
He made it fun.
He made you like want to think about what anthropology is,
not just here's the text book, here is some problems finish it, here is the test.
He makes you want to learn about it more
and dig into your own ideals and morals on what you think about it.
So because I am a anthropology major
when I go out into the world I look at people differently.
I kind of study them a little bit.
I look at someone and how,
lets say we are at Walmart or something
and I see a mother yelling at her kid.
I go, why would she be yelling at her kid?
Does she have a point yelling at him?
Does he just want candy?
Is he having a tantrum?
Is she just being mean?
I start to kind of analyze the world because of anthropology.
