I had not done anything related to mock trials, law, or performance before college, so joining the Wesleyan Mock Trial is definitely one of the most challenging but meaningful things I have done during my first year. We had our first mock trial tournament at Penn last October, and I was feeling extremely nervous. My …
Last summer, I joined a program and taught art in a rural Chinese province, Yunnan, as a volunteer. Most of my students were fourteen years old, whereas I was seventeen. There were not a lot of age differences among us, but I was labeled as a “teacher” while they were “students.” I did not like …
I always consider myself a humanities-based person. I am interested in literature, journalism, and sociology and think computer science and mathematics are the hardest subjects in the world. I did not have a single STEM class through my high school except the required calculus and statistics classes in my curriculum. Last fall, I took a …
I started dancing in sixth grade in primary school and soon fell in love with it. I found dancing a way to express my emotions and thoughts in an artistic way. Being enthusiastic about dancing, I soon found and joined a Wesleyan dancing group right after I entered college and performed in the Winter Dance …
I took an English class “Asian American Literature” last fall. Although I took a couple of literature classes back in high school and I am a literature lover, I found this class very challenging for me. I found it hard not because I could not understand the materials we were reading but because I did …
