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Chinwe Okona ’13

Hello, hello. My name is Chinwe Okona and I'm a senior neuroscience major and Comparative American Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies minor. Although I was born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in a little town called Flower Mound, Texas, I now call Coral Springs, Florida, a suburb of Miami, home.

For a while, I was more than sure I wanted to work in a lab and do research for a living or go to medical school. However, recently I've come to love the fields of public health and global health. After graduating from ��سԹ�, I hope to obtain my Master's in Public Health and hopefully do some type of work pertaining to minorities and LGBTQ-identified persons--really though, I have no idea what I'm going to be doing post-��سԹ�.

When I'm not being all nerdy and scientific, I like to be active. At home, I go to the beach regularly to play volleyball and enjoy the sun, and I longboard everywhere. Although there's an absence of coastal water here at ��سԹ�, I pass the time as a member of the varsity volleyball team.

More than anything else, I enjoy good books, good music, and good conversation. So if you possess any of the above, humor me and I'll be more than happy to indulge.

Honest Recollections

April 9, 2013

An account of my involvement in, as well as my thoughts on, the current student activism taking place at ��سԹ�.

What do we call me?

January 13, 2013

I don't think this is sappy enough to be my first 'I'm leaving ��سԹ�' post, so we'll just call it my pre-'I'm leaving ��سԹ�' post.

one week in...

September 9, 2012

...and we're swamped. happy first week of class!

Somewhere over Oklahoma, where it's 9 pm EST and still hella bright outside

June 7, 2012

I actually have no idea where I am, this plane doesn't have those little TVs with the electronic map. What other states are in the central US? Kansas?

Beloved

March 26, 2012

A description of my Toni Morrison moment at ��سԹ�.

Chinwe's Adventures in Eco-land

March 11, 2012

Not quite down the rabbit hole, just over on East Lorain Street.

Sort-of spontaneously situated in San Francisco

January 25, 2012

True Life: I'm in the Bay Area for Winter Term.

Sciences and humanities, comparatively

January 10, 2012

I took a Comparative American Studies class last semester and all I got was this lousy t-shirt. Just kidding, it was pretty neat.

Stacks on stacks on stacks, of stuff.

September 5, 2011

Hi, my name's Chinwe. I've got too much stuff and I'm terrible at packing.

This is the first year of the rest of your lives

July 31, 2011

Your parents aren't lying, college IS the bee's knees and all that. I'm just making sure you start it off right, okay!?

THE Professor List

July 2, 2011

In ��سԹ�, I think professors are kinda like celebrities. And these are the ones I go goo-goo eyed over.

Holy FYSP!

June 26, 2011

It feels like just yesterday I was choosing a First Year Seminar of my very own.

The living is ridiculously easy--

June 15, 2011

Actually I'm crazy busy, but whatever! It's summertime!

Co-operativity!

June 5, 2011

Turns out even the pickiest eater can chow down co-op style.

Course selection?

February 13, 2011

More like course PREselection.

Sounds of ��سԹ�

January 12, 2011

Pretty much the fall semester of the sophomore year, in song. Almost like a musical. Almost.

Roommates are ________.

December 5, 2010

You should read this, especially if you don't like people.

No-shave October?

November 7, 2010

Because I clearly wasn't ready to handle No-shave November.

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