Helena Rosen
Laura Foti is a twenty three year old woman who has just started her post college life in the working world. She is a recent Syracuse University graduate and is now the Business Technology Analyst at Deloitte. Her motive for coming into class was to discuss how she got to the point she is currently at in her life. Laura Foti’s relationship with her father and her love for trying new things were two large factors that shaped her life that she talked about.
Much of Laura Fotis inspiration came from her disabled father. He was the first person in Connecticut to have a bilateral hip replacement. She explained that her relationship with her father was different than other fathers and daughters because they were not able to do the same things due to his disability. Instead of playing basketball and other sports, Laura and her father told stories together. Once she started telling stories, she never stopped. Laura originally was interested in journalism because that was the field her father was in and because she had a passion for telling stories. Her father told her that she was not allowed to do journalism, so she went into public relations instead. Laura found herself especially interested in doing public relations for health, because that too was something that her father pursued. Throughout Laura Foti’s story it was clear that her father had a huge part in the shaping of her life path.
Laura Foti has a passion for adventure and trying new things. Instead of going directly from high school to college, Laura decided to take a gap year and go abroad. She convinced her parents to let her go to Argentina and stay with a host family. While abroad she took a risk and wrote stories in Spanish for a local newspaper in Argentina. She wrote about her experience as an American in a foreign country. She discussed the differences in the family culture in Argentina as opposed to her hometown in Boston. Foti was also the first American to dance in Carnival. In the dance Foti was depicted as the “American Girl” and this was a very exciting experience for her. Laura Foti experienced everything she could in her stay abroad, before returning to the United States.
After Argentina Laura Foti found herself in Syracuse University where she would major in public relations. At Syracuse she was extremely involved and wanted to try everything. Foti has developed into the person she is today because of her father and because of her passion for trying new things. I was personally inspired by Laura Foti because she showed, through life experiences that no dream is intangible.