you seem so sweet and intelligent but
just out of curiosity if you're going
into hotel hospitality management why
are you going to Cornell and why did you
put yourself through IB obviously
Cornell is amazing but I don't know how
worth it the work would be in a lot of
fields I really think this is a fair
question a lot of people ask me if I am
so intelligent and hardworking why am I
going into hospitality I've been here
for about two weeks today and I love it
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today I am discussing why I chose to
study hospitality and why I did such a
rigorous curriculum in high school to
prepare me for that field I fell in love
with hospitality because I wanted to
travel but also because you meet such
interesting people people really want to
talk to you when you're inviting them
into a hotel I worked front desk so I
met people from Mauritius who were
coming to Nebraska to study wine or I
poured rose' for Cirque de Soleil
acrobats after their performances I
worked for Larry the Cable guy's get er
done Golf Classic I just love that I get
to interact with people that otherwise I
would never meet like travelers are the
most interesting people that you can
ever find
if you're ever in an airport and can
strike up a conversation with someone
you'll understand why I love hospitality
I started to realize how much goes into
hotels behind the scenes every price
down to the cent is managed by marketing
teams and people that are looking at
hotel profits and it's so amazing how
much thought goes into guest services
and how much thought goes into making
sure a consumer has a fantastic time at
a hotel the idea that you can persuade
someone to come into your hotel by the
price that you put or the experience
they have there before or the way that
you market your brand is so fascinating
to me so all of those behind the scene
aspects are really why I'm studying
hospitality I think what this question
implies is that I didn't need to do
something so academically rigorous if I
was going into hospitality but I feel
like that kind of negates the importance
and the rigor of hospitality in itself
Hospitality isn't easy it's not just
smiling and shaking hands with guests
there are a lot of aspects of
hospitality that are incredibly academic
accounting finance investment banking
all require a lot of computer science
and math so just because I'm going into
a field that's not thought of as
traditionally academic that doesn't make
me any less smart or hard-working or
industrious I think you can put in as
much effort academically as you want to
any subject and that will help you no
matter what it doesn't matter if you're
studying quantum physics or napkin
folding you can always do something
better so why did I put myself through
IB I didn't know I wanted to go into
hospitality I think anyone that goes
into their first year of high school
knowing exactly what career they want to
go into is probably going to end up
wrong even within my first week of
classes IB has helped me in the weirdest
ways for the hotel school for example in
my business computing class we discuss
strategies and tactics if you're in HL
history you know that strategies and
tactics are the language the IB uses to
discuss war my business computing class
uses the same vocabulary to discuss
managerial goals I would venture to say
that if IB is helping me so much in such
a niche field that anything you want to
go into IB will help you do that if
Cornell didn't have the hotel school I
wouldn't be here because the hotel
school is the
school in the world hands down the
faculty is amazing the programs that
they have put in place are world-class
but beyond that I am so happy at Cornell
because people are so passionate about
what they're studying whether that's
atmospheric sciences or plant genetics
anyone can have a really really
interesting conversation with a
classmate just because everyone has
cultivated such specific passions but
it's kind of fascinating to me that when
I'm surrounded by hotel school kids
hotel 'yes i feel so passionate about
what i'm studying and I feel so
validated in wanting to study something
so specific as soon as I'm surrounded by
students from other majors as soon as
people start joking about me becoming a
housekeeper or folding napkins for the
rest of my life it becomes so difficult
to take my work seriously and to really
push myself to be the best that I can be
so it's really difficult to balance the
idea of being surrounded by people that
are as passionate as me and also being
in a school where people still don't
really understand what I'm doing and
it's fine because there is that
community of hotel ease that know
exactly why I'm here
just because hotel school isn't a
typical field of study doesn't mean it's
not hard I am still being challenged
just a new way just because I'm studying
something that is so personality based
doesn't mean that my intellect has just
gone out the window
honestly you don't become the best
school in the world by not pushing your
students and not making them the best
Hotel students in the world my food
operations professor always talks about
how he wants to inspire us to aspire and
I think that's something that I would
like to cultivate here in this community
whether you're trying to pass the IB get
into Cornell or college or maybe you
have similar passions to mine I want to
inspire you to aspire to be the best you
can be because currently I am trying my
best to be my best and I want to take
you on that journey I really want to
showcase that you can study anything you
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