Matineh Eybpoosh: Being Good
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2014
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Married young and used to giving up her own dreams, Iranian student Matineh Eybpoosh moves to the U.S. to study civil engineering—and a whole new world opens up. Matineh Eybpoosh was born in Oroumieh, a town that carries the scent of apples and the generosity of grapes, and shelters happy flamingos. She holds a masters in Construction Engineering and Management from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey, and a B.A. in civil engineering from Tabriz University in Iran. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, a city that's treated her like a good friend: challenging her, battling her, and ultimately understanding her better than before. She writes Farsi poetry, leads the Persian Student Organization, and has performed Persian dance at Pittsburgh festivals.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | It felt... |
| 0:07.0 | I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:13.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey, everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to The Story Collider, |
| 0:26.4 | where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:29.6 | This week's story is from Matina Abe Bush. |
| 0:32.0 | The story was recorded in October 2014 at theS in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Oh my God. |
| 0:41.3 | Okay. |
| 0:45.3 | It was years ago, back in Iran, when I was only one year old. |
| 0:55.0 | When I came home and saw a little baby girl |
| 0:59.0 | sleeping beside my mom's bed, |
| 1:02.0 | that was when I realized I should grow up fast. |
| 1:08.0 | I was an older sister. |
| 1:10.0 | It was a serious job. I had to take care of someone. |
| 1:13.6 | I didn't have any other choice. I had to learn how to become a little parent. |
| 1:20.6 | The first five years of my childhood were spent during the war between Iran and Iraq, half of which my mom had |
| 1:30.3 | to take care of us alone while my dad was gone to defend his country. I didn't have the |
| 1:37.0 | luxury of acting childish. She needed my help. After the war, my parents resumed their education in Tehran University. |
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