Diami is from Senegal, a small country in West Africa. She was born and raised there and came to the US in 2011 for college, graduating in May 2015. She majored in Economics and minored in Math. She was a student consultant at the LCC during her time as a student.
Diami has successfully passed all her qualifying exams and is now a PhD Candidate. In the last two years, she has accomplished so much, from designing her own field experiments to serving as a Senator in the Purdue Graduate Student Government to being elected President of her Department’s Graduate Student Organization. It’s been a very challenging yet rewarding journey, and slowly but surely, she is seeing the finish line.
She says that even though her field of study is completely different, working at the LCC gave her the best skills she could have acquired: an urge to study new languages. Diami’s first language is French, but after her bachelor’s, she lived in Germany for 3 years for her Master’s, which gave her an opportunity to learn German.
Diami remembers how she used to enjoy different events at the LCC, where she would talk with students learning different languages and eat food from different countries. “Use your time there to learn about the opportunities that are offered at the LCC and to also engage in as many activities as possible,” Diami suggests to every consultant working at the LCC.
