If Amy Suelzer, PhD, director of Overseas Programs in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, wrote a memoir, a likely title might be “My Serendipitous Life.” Many of her life-changing decisions seem to have been guided by moments when an opportunity presented itself, and Suelzer seized it.
She seized it even as a child. “I was about 10 or 11 years old, and we went to a Mexican restaurant,” Suelzer recalled. “I ordered something, and the waitress said, ‘You pronounced that really well!’ So when I had to choose a language in middle school, I remembered that incident, and so I chose Spanish.”
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