Bensu Baştopcu
Home Country: Turkey
Graduates from MCC: 2020
Program: Psychology
While on campus: Member of the Multicultural Career Institute, Orientation Leader, International Student Ambassador, Supplemental Instruction leader, Leadership in Action participant
"At Middlesex, I learned and experienced diversity. People here appreciate differences, and I was different..."
Middlesex Community College student Bensu Bastopcu came to study in the United States
from Turkey in 2017. She knew very little about American culture or the education
system, and was nervous about whether she would fit in to this new place.
Arriving at MCC in January 2018, Bastopcu was happy to discover that differences are
celebrated on campus, and that all students are made to feel welcome.
“Here, is my home now,” the 27-year-old psychology student proudly declared in a recent
interview. Read the full story.