#18 🇺🇸 Finding Photography, Building her own Degree, Becoming a Freelancer - Raquel Curriel (4K)

In this episode we are joined by a someone who grew up in a small town in Minnesota with 3000 people just 3 hours away from campus. She decided to make the move to the “big” city of Sioux Falls, after falling in love with the idea of Augie on her 4th college visit. She is the only person I know to have built her own major. Yes, that’s a thing. And if there was one person to do it, it would be this guest. She graduated with an a three-way major, aka an interdisciplinary major. During her time at college she let her creative side take over and discovered a whole new world through a camera lens. Her passion for photography has recently become her full time job as she works with couples capturing their love. Speaking of love, I love this conversation and I hope you love it too. Get ready, it’s time to go Back to College with Raquel. SHOW LINKS Follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Raquel on ⁠Insta⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠gram Follow Raquel's Photography on Instagram Raquel's Website Follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Zac⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Listen to the podcast ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Chapters: 00:00 Trailer 01:15 Intro 03:34 Welcome Raquel 06:11 Growing up in small town 06:52 Visiting Peru 09:57 Looking for a college 12:03 Pressure to attend college 12:50 First Day 14:14 Build your own major 17:21 interdisciplinary degree 21:04 Thoughts on classes 23:40 Non-academic activities 25:04 Working at Rec Services 28:28 Working on campus 30:33 More on campus activities 31:23 Intramural sports 33:15 THE photography class 36:12 Why Photography? 37:40 Raquel's inspiration 40:28 Where the love of photo began 42:55 Creative by nature 45:02 Stepping into the workforce 50:10 First video shoot 54:12 Future Aspirations 56:25 Raquel's letter grade 59:31 Advice to American's looking at colleges 1:01:08 Studying Abroad in Costa Rica