(Personal Photo at the Grand Canyon: Photo taken March 2018)
(Personal Photo of the first day of class Fall 2018: Photo taken August 2018)
Hello! My name is Olivia Yancey, i'll start with the basics that we all tell new people when first meeting. I am a 22 year old female and this is my last semester here at OU! I am from Redlands California a small town about an hour east of Los Angeles. I will answer your next question now, why did I move to Oklahoma from Southern California? I became interested in OU because my grandparents were from Oklahoma and went to this school, but the main reason I came here was because it was cheaper then my in-state tuition. However, I have come to love OU more than I ever thought I had and moving here for college has been the greatest adventure.
I study microbiology with a minor in geography here at OU, I am particularly interested in infectious disease and how they are effected geographically. I have been keeping busy these lat two months because I am currently applying to public health graduate schools in epidemiology! If you don't know what epidemiology is we are nicknamed the "disease detectives", its all about understanding how disease like Ebola all the way to mental illnesses occur and how to prevent and control them! I took geography not only because I love the subject but because they teach you how to make maps! So I want to use maps to help identify why diseases are where they are and to help contain epidemics (Like the maps you see on the news about the spread of Ebola in Africa)!
Less about school since we all have a life outside the classrooms. Growing up my life revolved around school and sports, I played soccer and badminton all through out my life, and not the backyard kind of badminton. My brother played soccer so when I was old enough I started to play and my dad was a badminton coach and I followed him to practice until I could start to play myself. Also if you had a chance to look at my favorite place blog you know that the most important thing to me and my goal in the future is to travel. I have not been to many places, college is expensive, but my list is long. I have been to Israel, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, France, and Italy my favorite being Germany so far but Sweden is a very close second. The number one on my bucket list is to see the Taj Mahal before they close the inside to visitors. My goal for my remaining time here in Oklahoma is to travel to places close by on the weekends since I do not know when I will be able to come back to this area. So if you have made it this far in my blog please comment a place I should go to before I move for grad school, it can be anywhere from here in Norman to about 6 hours away in any direction! Or if you cant think of somewhere close by tell me what city/country I should add to my bucket list.
