My name is David Burick. I'm an international business and finance double major and French minor at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC. This spring semester I will be studying abroad at l'ESSEC Business School in Cergy, France, a suburb of Paris.
I am a 21 year old francophile (lover of francophone languages and culture) from Greensboro, North Carolina. One day I hope to be an international corporate attorney. To get there, in addition to my majors, I work part-time as a runner at a small criminal defense law firm in Columbia. I'm a combination of an errand boy and a law clerk.
After graduation in May 2016, I plan to stay at USC for the two year Masters of International Business program, after which I will continue to law school. I don't yet know which law school, but I'm hoping for top 10. I'm taking the LSAT this coming February to get the ball rolling on law school applications. *screams in terror* Standardized tests are not my academic forté.
From tenth grade through my freshman year of college I was a cheerleader. My last two years of high school I did competitive (aka "Allstar") cheerleading at Cheer Extreme Allstars in Kernersville, NC. Previously, I had been a gymnast for many years. My first year of college I cheered for the Gamecocks, flipping and throwing people on the sidelines of every home football game. However, after that year I decided college cheerleading wasn't for me and it was time to shift my focus and newly found free time to my education and my career.
I have been dreaming of studying abroad in Paris since I was in elementary school. In college I amended that dream to allow for a Parisian suburb after seeing what an amazing program l'ESSEC was. I'm currently sitting at home vibrating at ultra-high frequencies because I'm so excited to fly out on February 22. I'm excited, nervous, and honored for you, readers, to come on this adventure with me.
