Beginning Chinese Has Changed My Life Forever
"My Theatre Arts and East Asian Studies majors were extremely helpful preparation for a future career in Costume Design in Asia."
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Phuong Nguyen ’17
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"My Theatre Arts and East Asian Studies majors were extremely helpful preparation for a future career in Costume Design in Asia."
My study of psychology helped me discover that understanding that people are people, first, is the key to better work.
"In the Astronomy Department, I learned to be open to new possibilities, even if they didn’t follow the conventional path to success."
"Most of my joy in South Korea was not spent in the classroom at Ewha but in the city of Seoul."
"Studying Chinese gave me a new vantage point from which to observe the world and a meaningful tool with which to effectively engage it."
My independent study project contributed to my M.A. thesis on China-Latin American Free Trade Agreements at the University of Chicago.
As a double major in dance and mathematics, I found that many threads ran through my two fields of study.
As a writer and dancer, I look for the values expressed within the dance, and evaluate how well the piece fulfilled those values.
"The Barbara Yen Sun Prize funded my research in New York among the largest Tibetan community in the US."
“The American culture encouraged me to explore outside of my comfort zone, while the Chinese culture was a mystery inside of me.”