Having grown up between Kaohsiung and Tainan throughout the first 18 years of my life, I missed the bike rides along Pier-2, the douhua bowls from Anping, the pebble trails at Meishu Park, the chicken noodle soup at Din Tai Fung, the monkeys on Monkey Mountain and all the familiarities of home.
I locked myself out of my apartment every year except senior year. I’m officially ready for the real world.
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Winning the East Coast Collegiate Volleyball Association Championships for the first time in the history of the JHU Men’s Club Volleyball program was incredible.
I’m so proud of you, little me. You’re gonna make all your dreams come true. And I hope I will too!
From the stories, I assumed that to thrive in college, you had to be a non-stop happy machine. You needed to be at the big games.
To share time with anyone at all is a gift. But to be present with someone, to be able to bring your whole self and know there will always be space and grace for you, is the wildest stroke of luck.
It’s been an amazing two years here at Hopkins, and it’s sad to be graduating when I just got here, but I’m glad to have been able to see some duds because of my time here.
During my first two years, I could not stop complaining about how dull life in Baltimore was. Later I realized that I was the one making it that way. I needed to commit myself to some exploration.
Despite not knowing a thing about what students do in Model UN, I decided to give it a try.
Looking back, I realize that the classes I remember most are not just defined by the material, but by the people who taught them and the environments they created.
Nobody knew what would happen next. And yet, for one gloriously unhinged midnight in Baltimore, none of that mattered. We were all equally lost, equally bewildered, yet somehow completely at home.
It is this repertoire and the lessons I’ve learned from my loved ones in the past three years that qualify me to write, as my final goodbye to the paper and to the University, my own formal definition for love, in all its forms.
It still shows up in unfamiliar rooms and new challenges, but it no longer has the same authority. It no longer gets the final say. And maybe that’s what it means to move forward: not leaving the doubt behind, but learning that it was never telling the truth in the first place.
How are you? At this point in time, you have just started your first semester at Hopkins, and I can imagine you're feeling excited and anxious.
1. Take a dog out for a day from BARCS, an animal shelter in the city. They have a program where you can schedule to take out a shelter dog for a two- or four-hour time block. We brought our dog back to campus and ran around the Beach with him!
If you had asked me four years ago what my college experience would look like, I never would have imagined 4:30 a.m. wake-ups, jumping out of planes or leading a battalion of 60 people before turning 22.
In celebration of the Hopkins Sesquicentennial Celebration, here are 150 things you should do before you graduate!
When I think about the student organization I am most grateful I joined at Hopkins, I immediately think of Hopkins Sport Taekwondo (HST).
