by Mairead Poulin ’13
Like most students beginning to think about their college plans, senior Laura Bowman didn’t realize that culinary school was an option.
“If you had asked me a year ago where I would hope to be attending in the fall, I would have said a university near New York City, probably for business or something like that,” she shares. But in the middle of her college search, at the suggestion of her mother, Laura made a spur of the moment trip to tour a school’s culinary program. And just like that, she discovered her calling.