2008 Woodie Awards
Collegio Q&A
Timi Myers, 'making a difference'
Issue date: 10/9/08 Section: Campus Life
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Q. What made you decide to become a social work major?
A. Actually I started out as a music major and I thought my entire life that I wanted to be a music teacher. I've always played the violin and been involved in music. I got offered lots of scholarship money. And then something just happened and halfway through my first year I started getting really burned out on it and I didn't feel like that was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. Sitting in a practice room isn't really doing anything for the world.
Q. What did you do next?
A. I think I actually went through this entire soul-searching period where I thought about going into music therapy.
Q. What is music therapy?
A. It's working in nursing homes and sitting by people's bed and singing with them or giving them an instrument. It's a therapeutic kind of thing and they do it with children, too.
Q. Is that a common job?
A. Not around here. It's really common around the East and West coasts.
Q. How did this lead to social work?
A. I actually just took a social work class randomly and talked to a social worker that I knew and I really liked the basic idea of what a social worker does.
Q. What does a social worker do?
A. A social worker can simply be there to organize resources or help people figure things out in their life. I'm 100 percent sure that this is what I want to do.
Q. What work do you do with the free clinic?
A. I just organize resources because I'm a social work major. There are lots of places around town that provide services for people that they don't know about. If somebody needs a place to go for free counseling or to talk about women's issues, there are places around town that do that and I can let them know.
Q. Is that something you'd like to do for a career?
A. That's what social workers do. But I probably won't work in Pittsburg after I graduate.
Q. What originally got you interested in the Women's Studies Club? What got you involved?
A. Well, I took my first Women's Studies class my freshman year. After that, I was more comfortable calling myself a feminist. This year I got started back working with Women's Studies.
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