Name: Pauline Charlot
Major: Business
Classification: Graduate student
Graduation date: Fall 2025
Hometown: Bordeaux, France
Extracurricular activities: “[In] my free time I do some music. I play the piano. … I do some video-making. … I watch series [and] I listen to music.”
What are the differences between your hometown and the United States? “I think in France, it’s easier to, like, move in the country. Like here, if we don’t have a car, it’s really difficult. But in France, there are lots of … trains and we can travel in the country really easily. And for the scholar thing, I think it’s more difficult in France. Like, we have [a lot of] homework to do. We have to write a lot.”
If you could eat only one food for the rest of your life, what would it be and why? “It would be pasta because I really love it. Like, all types of pasta. Like, Italian and French cuisines are really good for me. They are the best. So, yeah, I could eat pasta every day.”
What is on your bucket list? “Travel [to] all countries in the world. I really, really love to travel. So, yeah, to check all countries, it will be awesome. Latin America, I really want to do a road trip there. Last year, I was in Mexico for one semester to do an internship. It was, like, my best experience. I really enjoyed it. I want to go back so much. And I’m really interested to, like, do a road trip in Latin America.”
Who is your role model? “My family. Like, my mother is really a role model because she’s really a hard worker. … My parents are really inspiring.”
Why did you choose business as your major? “Because in France, I am in a business school, also. So it was logical, but more specifically, I chose marketing classes. Since high school, I [have] wanted to discover marketing and I’ve always been in, like, internships in marketing, and I’ve always really liked it. Like, I want to work in … a marketing agency.”
What advice would you give other international students? “I think to go meet people. … It’s really a good experience, like, to discover a lot of things [about] you, but also … other cultures and other people coming from everywhere. So, it’s … a good experience to have in our life.”
–Compiled by Fatima Gamez Lopez
