How Is Catherine Different And Interesting To Study

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Catherine Bostron, an attorney at The Hearst Corporation, moved around a lot when she was younger. At the age of 10, her family moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia. Catherine went to the University of Virginia as an undergraduate then she took a year off and traveled to Europe, She also went to the University of Virginia for Law School. What makes Catherine different and interesting to interviewing is that starting college she didn’t know what career she wanted to study. She chose laws because when she graduated from college in 1976 the economic was dreadful and there were not a lot of jobs, and the tuition for law school wasn’t expensive, so she decides a degree that will help her to get a job.

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