May 2013 - Senior Sampler

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KNOW SELF  KNOW VALUES

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Standing in front of Alden Hall where she spent many hours over the past four years assisting the Institute for Peace Studies, Anudari Batjargal stands with Cindy Kunz, executive director of the Institute.

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UNSTOPPABLE ANUDARI BATJARGAL “Unstoppable” is a word that Anudari Batjargal employs to discuss the work of the Institute for Peace Studies at Rocky Mountain College, where, for four years, she served as a work-study student. The 2013 President’s Cup winner, fresh from winning three academic department awards and graduating summa cum laude, barely had time to celebrate her achievements before she was focused on this year’s Festival of Cultures, the annual June event that welcomes thousands of visitors to the RMC campus. “We’ve built an unstoppable team,” the native of Mongolia said of the Institute. The Institute for Peace Studies is one segment of her college career – community service – that helped her earn the President’s Cup. Her 3.98 cumulative GPA, her service as a senator for the Associated Students of RMC (ASRMC), and her double major in aviation management and managerial accounting, with a math minor, added to her impressive credentials. Anudari, called Anu (pronounced Ah-no), won the outstanding student awards in three departments: aviation, business, and math. “She earned it all the old fashioned way. Hard work and discipline,” said Dan Hargrove, RMC director of aviation. “She simply is an exceptional

person.” Anu credited her successes to her belief in “Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs.” “Each individual strives for selfactualization. With the support of friends, family, and my ‘family away from home,’ and in being committed and tenacious, I feel I’ve truly been the best I can be,” she stated. Her mission – to earn her degree with an aviation and business concentration – began before she turned 16 years old, when she was looking for the right college. She chose RMC because it had the courses she wanted and was similar in geography to her home country. Mongolia has only three million people so she was accustomed to less crowded, expansive locations. She was the youngest RMC student when she arrived, and one of her first honors as the youngest student was to light the Yule log at RMC’s annual Yule Log Dinner. She dismissed the importance of being so young. “I don’t even feel 16 because I am not treated like I am 16,” she said. “That’s another great thing about Rocky. I am treated like an adult as long as I behave like one.” She said at the time her goal was to obtain

SENIOR SAMPLER

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MAKE DECISIONS WITH BOTH IN ALIGNMENT her aviation management degree so she could return to Mongolia to manage the new airport under construction near the capital of Ulan Bator. That is still one of her goals, after she has pursued other professional Continued on page 2


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