By Simran Parwani
During her senior year, Ivona Feldmarova was planning to apply to graduate school. However, after hearing about an opportunity with the Young Associates Programme at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris, she decided that she did not want to miss the opportunity. After multiple rounds of interviews, she received an offer for the opportunity to work with the organization on researching the social and emotional skills of students, a topic that piques Feldmarova’s interest and curiosity.
In her first semester at NYU Abu Dhabi, Feldmarova, a Social Research and Public Policy major, felt that she was floating around. She knew that she was broadly interested in education, but was not quite sure what she wanted from life beyond that. “People around me were applying for internships and I didn’t even know what I wanted to apply to. I felt like I didn’t know anything.”