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<\/a>Cynthia Ofori Dwumfuo<\/p><\/div>
\nComing thousands of miles away from home in Accra, Ghana, I least expected to find another home, another family, or to feel so attached to this place I had never even heard of before my grad school search began. Yet, here I am two years later, a proud Tiger; my blood runs fiercely orange.
\nI arrived at Clemson excited about this new adventure and reassured by the warmth of the people I had interacted with during my application process. Besides, how bad could it be? Bad? It turned out far from that; it\u2019s been pretty awesome! My time here has been a roller coaster of academic rigor, cultural discovery, good friends, warm people and a welcoming community. As an international student, I fully cherish the open-mindedness of my Tiger family. I appreciate being held to the same standards as my fellow students from America, not patronized or dismissed in spite of cultural differences. People here are friendlier than any other place I ever traveled to. It\u2019s amazing I discovered this school through a random search on Google!
\nFrom the first football game to the rigorous course work and tutoring I did in the writing center, I quickly adopted the determined spirit of a Clemson Tiger. I racked up diverse experiences I doubt I would otherwise have had (I never saw myself white-water rafting, that\u2019s for sure). I have been an active member of the community, a grad student, freshman composition teacher, tutor, volunteer, a TEDxClemsonU speaker. I\u2019m proud to say I have helped other internationals like myself to enjoy their Clemson experience by serving in several organizations such as the cultural exchange community and the international students association.
\nGraduating with a master\u2019s degree in professional communication, I leave Clemson with a sense of accomplishment, and look forward to being an active alumna representing the school proudly wherever I go. Traipses through the gardens, hiking haunts, lakeside lounging, 36-hour days, afternoons by the reflection pond, evenings downtown, and nights at Cooper library \u2014 I\u2019ll miss it all.
\nI still can\u2019t get over the feeling of that first game in Death Valley and the deafening chant that rang in my ears for days after that \u2026 \u201cC.L.E.M.S.O.N. T.I.G.E.R.S. fight tigers, fight tigers, fight, fight, fight!\u201d Wherever I go, this chant will fondly remain with me. I love to share my Tiger spirit. Somewhere in Accra, Ghana, my brother sports a Clemson T-shirt, and somewhere in London, UK, my baby nephew wears the cutest Clemson jersey and socks. I\u2019m proud to be a first-generation Clemson Tiger.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m Cynthia E. Ofori-Dwumfuo and this is my Clemson!<\/h3>\n
A 2012 MAPC Clemson graduate, Cynthia E. Ofori-Dwumfuo earned a B.A. in economics from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. She currently is interning with VOX Global, a strategic communications and public affairs firm in Washington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Coming thousands of miles away from home in Accra, Ghana, I least expected to find another home, another family, or to feel so attached to this place I had never even heard of before my grad school search began. Yet, here I am two years later, a proud Tiger; my blood runs fiercely orange. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":6081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3296],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-clemson","tag-winter-2013"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/01\/Cynthia-Ofori-Dwumfuo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4782"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}