I met today's interview subject, career counselor Amanda Peters, when I as a grad student at MIT and Amanda was the career counselor who worked with students in my program. I was at loose ends about what to do after graduation, and a friend suggested I meet with her. We talked about my past work experience and what I might want to do with myself.
Read MoreBack to school with Art Historian Beth Merfish
Today, we're featuring Beth Merfish, who is an assistant professor of art history in Houston, Texas. Beth talked to us about how her lifelong love of learning about people and how they live, what the study of art history is and how she fell in love with it, her work in political activism to give everyone a voice, and how asking for help is a sign of strength, not weakness.
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