Alumni Profile • Angela Ajayi ’97Posted in Articles, Biography, Media Archive, Women on 2010-12-10 23:14Z by Steven |
Alumni Profile • Angela Ajayi ’97
The Calvin Spark
The Magazine for Alumni and Friends of Calvin College
Fall 2005
Working at the big question
Who am I and how do I fit in this world?
While every person struggles with these questions, they come to Angela Ajayi ’97 with some particular twists. The daughter of a Nigerian veterinarian and a Ukrainian caterer, Ajayi attended Hillcrest International School in Jos, Nigeria, prior to coming to Calvin. She was encouraged to take a practical course through college, in order to assume a professional life upon her return to Nigeria. But the pre-dentistry major discovered in her English classes “something about literature that gave me a sense of being alive.” She struggled, she said, with what to do. “I was thinking about the future. What would I do with an English major? But passion won.”..
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