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A Year in the Life

How do you choose a major? What are the tests like? What are the people like?
What's Ambler like for a freshman? A transfer? An adult? A senior?
Find out first-hand!
Follow students at Ambler through "A Year in the Life."

Lisa Geyelin: "Stranger in a Not-So-Strange Land"

Chapter 4:

Packing. House cleaning. Celebrating the holidays. Packing some more. A by-no-means hassle-free trip to Edinburgh, Scotland.

So much for winter break. Welcome to the freight train that is Lisa Geyelin’s life, which for has been spent as a Landscape Architecture student at Heriot-Watt University/Edinburgh College of Art.  Read more

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Kevin McCambley: "Around the World in One Semester"

Chapter 4:

Kevin McCambley took a trip around the world his first semester from several different perspectives, from thoughts and ideas to a study of diverse cultures.

“I like the core courses that you have to take at Temple because it pushes you to think about concepts that you might not if you didn’t have these classes. In Intellectual Heritage 52, right now we’re studying the philosophies of Thomas Jefferson and John Locke and moving toward the Enlightenment,” Kevin said.  Read more

Gina Roby: "No Fear of Statistics"

Chapter 4:

For some people, if you mention the need to take Statistics, they might just look at you with pity as if you’ve been handed a sentence from the judge. For others they might just run in terror.

For Gina Roby, it’s just another day at the office...or classroom.  Read more.

Kristin Johnston: "Capping Off A 'Career' A Temple"

Chapter 4:

Spring 2005 was Kristin Johnston’s final semester as an undergraduate student at Temple University Ambler.

Kristin decided not to take the easy road to her diploma. With a job already secured upon graduation, she’s still decided to go out in style.

“I need three classes to graduate, but as a transfer student I need two more.”  Read more

Katharina Bruehl: "Jenkintown -
Culinary Mecca of Montgomery County?"

Chapter 4:

A Jenkintown Borough booming with a diversity of restaurants, shops, and ample parking. It’s certainly a vision the businesses of Jenkintown would like to become a reality; the question is how.

Katharina Bruehl may have a few answers for them. As the spring semester at Temple University Ambler wound down, she and her team of ten Marketing Research students (she was team captain) were diligently tromping from place to place in Jenkintown.  Read more

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Carl Watson: "Change of State, No Change in Attitude"

Chapter 4:

For anyone familiar with Jimmy Buffett, “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes,” is not a new saying. Living it, however, is another thing entirely.

Carl Watson might have an Ambler campus state of mind, but his family is moving to Florida — let the stress begin.

“This has been a tough semester, but it has gone by so quickly. While preparing for finals, I’m finding that I have a lot of stress outside the classroom to deal with.”  Read more

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Carol Muñiz: "One Chapter Closes, A New Chapter Begins"

Chapter 4:

Carol Muñiz had her calendar marked in heavy black pen — May 20, 2004. That would be the day that she walked with her fellow graduating seniors at Temple University’s 117th Annual Commencement Ceremony at the Liacouras Center.

She’d sit there with her husband and children, listen to (then) University President David Adamany, laugh at Bill Cosby, and walk toward the stage...  Read more

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