My name is Carlos Serisari.
I am an alumni of the class of 2021.
I majored in political science and philosophy and I am now a Fletcher
student in the first year of my MALD degree and this is my Tufts story.
The passion that I feel I developed at Tufts is a passion for the Socratic method
and a passion for learning by talking to
people instead of learning by being talked to.
I took a lot of political theory classes in my time as an
undergraduate student with Professor Evergenis and Professor Sullivan
And I feel as though their teaching methods were very centered
around the idea that they weren't here to give us the answers.
They were here to guide us, to help us find the answers for ourselves.
My freshman and sophomore years, I was very involved in the Tufts University debate
team and in Tufts Civic, both organizations that gave me a forum to talk about
political or social issues that were bothering me or that I wanted to learn more
about, you know, learning by talking to others, regardless of their viewpoints.
I feel like this passion really burgeoned my junior and senior year
when I was given the opportunity to put that theory into practice.
The most memorable project I took part in was an
Institute for Global Leadership project in which
we were able to travel to Johnstown, which is a
small town in western Pennsylvania, to integrate
into the community and interview community
members and learn about what it takes to rebuild a
post-industrial town through the voice of the
people that are actually undertaking this journey.
This resulted in us writing about a 200-page book of short stories that really
crystallizes what I mean when I talk about the Socratic method of learning.
It's titled Phoenix of Steel, and it should be
available soon, so keep an eye out for that.