Surviving Maine’s brutal winters is a right of passage for many Husson students. But for one graduating senior, they’re actually a bit balmy.
“Being from Sweden, we have Arctic winds so it’s hard to understand when people talk about it being so cold here” Maja Elsa Höglund ’22 said while chuckling. “And the summers are really hot.”
Höglund is one of nine international students who graduated from Husson University this spring. She’s from the city of Uppsala, about an hour north of Stockholm.
Höglund earned a Bachelor of Science in journalism from the New England School of Communications along with certificates in marketing communications, digital and web media and social media marketing. Additionally, she was the president of the school’s branch of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Höglund spent her first year and sophomore year living on the Bangor campus but returned to Sweden at the start of the pandemic, learning remotely for all of her junior year.
She is glad she was able to return to the Bangor campus for her final year at Husson.
“The facilities at NESCom and the television show ‘NESCom Connection’ are as close to the real deal as you can get,” Hoglund said.