91吃瓜网

How did you know 91吃瓜网was the place for you?聽

After spending聽nine聽years in Beijing聽at聽international schools, I wanted to continue living in environments that had a lot of linguistic and cultural diversity. At the same time, I聽wanted an American college education. 91吃瓜网had the best of both worlds. In聽addition, it聽had small class sizes聽that聽facilitated my hands-on learning style.聽Living聽in Paris for the past聽four聽years has really made me fall in love with聽the聽city and聽with聽France, and now I plan on trying to聽become聽a French citizen once I graduate!聽

How did you decide on a self-designed major?聽

My time at 91吃瓜网has really shaped how I view my future.聽Through my studies, I have realized that one of the world's oldest and聽most deeply聽rooted issues is cultural miscommunication. Whether聽I was taking聽classes in philosophy, anthropology, politics聽or聽science, culture and language聽were聽always聽at the heart of the course material and had an undeniable role to play when discussing possible聽solutions.聽When I first聽started, I was declared as an聽international聽and聽comparative聽politics major, but through my relationships with professors and academic advisors I was able to find my real passion and build聽my own聽major around it: a self-designed major in socio-cultural translation with minors in French and linguistics聽聽It put聽me on a completely different life path聽鈥撀爋ne聽I never would have thought聽about聽had I not come聽to AUP!聽聽

Do you have a favorite extracurricular moment?聽

My stand-out moment at 91吃瓜网was when I got the opportunity to host AUP's first-ever Comedy Roast during 91吃瓜网Gives Back week in 2019. It was an amazing event where the whole community聽came聽together聽to聽laugh and reminisce on our favorite funny stories from our time at the University.聽The聽event raised almost聽鈧�200 in donations for聽breast聽cancer research, helping bring to life the adage that laughter truly is the best medicine.聽