When you pass S\u00f8ren Dahl in the hallways of Moudy South you can\u2019t help but notice him. He stands at well over six feet tall, with a brilliant shock of bleach blond hair, ready to flash a bright smile at everyone he meets.<\/p>\n
When he lifts his arm to wave at you, you\u2019re likely to catch a flash of the tattoo on his forearm. The neat rendering of the Olympic rings is the first hint you\u2019ll catch that this grad student is a lot more than he seems. In 2016, this future Horned Frog was swimming for his home country of Denmark in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.<\/p>\n
So how did S\u00f8ren end up in Fort Worth as one of the Schieffer College of Communication\u2019s most beloved teaching assistants?<\/p>\n
That is an interesting story.<\/p>\n
According to the World Happiness Report, Denmark is the second happiest country in the world. And yet, S\u00f8ren wasn\u2019t quite happy. As he neared the end of his high school career, he was faced with a difficult choice: he could continue his schooling by attending the nearby university, or he could pursue swimming professionally. But S\u00f8ren wanted both.<\/p>\n
His solution? Go to America.<\/p>\n
More specifically, he went to North Carolina State University, where he would be able to earn his degree and<\/em> continue swimming, with the added bonus of getting to experience the American college lifestyle he had seen so often on TV. But at the end of four years, S\u00f8ren still wasn\u2019t ready to go home. He had learned to love the life he had made in America. Plus, he wasn\u2019t sure exactly how he would put his American political science degree to work in Denmark. So he started looking for graduate schools.<\/p>\n That\u2019s when he found TCU. Even though it meant that, once again, S\u00f8ren would be moving to an unfamiliar place with no connections, TCU felt right. He would have the opportunity to get his master\u2019s degree in strategic communication, a subject he was not only passionate about, but an area of expertise he could make use of when he went back to Denmark.<\/p>\n And so S\u00f8ren Dahl is in Fort Worth, cheerfully helping grateful undergraduate students in the Research and Channel Planning classes while simultaneously working towards his own degree. It took a long journey to get him here, but the Schieffer College is better off for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":831,"template":"","class_list":["post-830","student_work","type-student_work","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","sw_category-strategic-communication"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n