Bridget Quigley: PLS422

Refugees and Accomplishing the Seemingly Impossible

Taking PLS 422 my junior year was by far the craziest and best decision I’ve made while being here at State. It was insane because I took a 400 level Political Science seminar lecture that all Poly Sci majors had to take (it was challenging), but I also learned so much about how the UN and ICC work (United Nations and International Criminal Court) and the politics behind refugees. To cap off the class, we wrote our senior year Capstone paper on a topic of our choosing; I decided to focus on Southern Sudanese child refugees in Northern Uganda. Thirty-Five pages later I really questioned my sanity in choosing both that class and that paper topic, but I’ve never been so proud of work I’ve done before in my life. I got one of the best grades in the class (because I picked a topic I’m interested in and worked really hard), but more importantly learned a lot about myself, and the outside world.