Shai Mohammed: What brings you to UH?
Blanca Garcia: I lived in Houston and didn’t want to go out of town. Wanted to stay close to family.
Mohammed: Why marketing?
Garcia: I wanted to go to law school, but the majors that they offered here before – prior to law school – that would give you a good background for it were not very, I guess, attractive. So I chose to take something that would be a little more contrasting to law so I would have an extensive background.
Mohammed: So you still plan to go ahead and go to law school?
Garcia: Yeah.
Mohammed: What aspect of law is interesting to you?
Garcia: Contract law.
Mohammed: What do you do when you’re not here? Apart from study (laughs).
Garcia: Homework. I was working but I’m not anymore.
Mohammed: What did you do?
Garcia: I was a clerk for a high school: helping kids out, making their schedules, telling them the classes they needed to take to graduate, things like that.
Mohammed: Marketing seems like it’s a really demanding major.
Garcia: Well, yeah. You have to start by marketing yourself and then be able to market whatever industry you’re getting into.
Mohammed: What do you do during the summers? Do you do internships?
Garcia: Actually, I haven’t taken a full summer since I graduated high school. I have taken classes and classes and classes. So, I pretty much do school, take one or two weeks off to relax and then everything else again. Even the winters are busy because I take mini sessions.
Mohammed: So when you take time off to relax what do you do? What’s your favorite thing to do?
Garcia: I love going out and eating out. I like trying different kinds of food.
Mohammed: What’s your favorite type of food?
Garcia: I have to be culturally influenced, I have to say Mexican food. But I like Italian food, Turkish food.
Mohammed: What qualifies as weird food to you?
Garcia: Weird? Yogurt on food.
Mohammed: (Laughs) I’m Indian, so that’s like, what we do.
Garcia: But I do like, I don’t know what you call it. They’re very spicy and they look like empanadas but they have a sauce.
Mohammed: Oh, samosas.
Garcia: Exactly. That’s it. I love those.
Mohammed: Yeah, those are awesome. There’s a great place down on Harwin to get those, it’s called Raja Sweets.
