Andrea Schulte

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“It’s exciting to be moving on to bigger steps in career and life. But I have to say this: SMC was a home to me. And I miss it.”

Since coming to SMC in 1987 from her native Germany, Andrea Schulte has made some incredible strides with her study and work. She became editor of The Corsair and transferred to UCLA with a 3.9 GPA. She has only a few months left before taking her BA in English. But at the moment, she works as associate editor for a major LA magazine. “Things have gone really well for me in America,” says Andrea. “But sometimes I do miss Europe. It was very hard for me to be in Los Angeles—watching on TV with tears flowing—when the Wall came down in Berlin.”

Andrea plans to finish her degree and continue to work in magazine publishing. “There is something very satisfying,” she says, “about being involved in the whole process you have to go through to put something in print. It’s creative, demanding and sometimes exhausting. But it’s worth it when you help to produce something beautiful.”

Andrea credits her love of publication work in general to her SMC advisor for The Corsair. “Mr. Donaldson was a real guide for me,” she says. “When I first began to work for the paper, I was a little unsure of myself. But ‘Mr. D.’ encouraged me and never let me feel down. He always made me feel that I could get the job done.”

Andrea plans to visit her European family this spring before returning to UCLA. “I think it would be lovely to always be connected with both Europe and America,” she says. “And I will probably always judge America by the kinds of people, the experiences I had, when I first came to SMC. Naturally,” she adds, “most of those impressions are good one.”

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