A teacher that made a difference in my life was my high school physics teacher. She was younger at least as much as I could tell and I was having a hard time in the class. I was struggling with the material, physics, and the accompanying math did not come easy to me. So, to remedy this I stayed after school to study with her, hopefully having the teacher there as a resource would help me out. It did to an extent and I did alright in physics, but more than anything she helped me reevaluate what it was I wanted to do with my life. I knew that I probably did not want to go into any Stem field. That sort of knowledge did not come naturally to me. We talked about my interest, I explained I really liked English and history, how I thought I might want to become an attorney someday, an immigration one so I could help people come to the United States and start their new lives as my own mother did as a child. And this seemed particularly important to me because in the political climate of the day and now immigrating to the states is seemingly getting harder, Trump had just out a ban on immigration handful of Muslim majority countries. She told me about her friend who became an attorney and how they enjoyed it and their path from undergrad to law school to practicing law. She was someone to talk to who was not my parent but had some amount of wisdom and time to listen. At the time I needed that and found it very comforting, it helped illuminate for myself where I was going. Today I'm still unsure of what I'd like to do after undergrad but at the time it gave me some ideas as to what I could do. 

I am going to conduct an interview with a first-generation immigrant their experience leaving their original nation and coming here. I'm planning on interviewing my Grandpa who emigrated from Vietnam. Along with this interview is a term paper. As well I am enrolled in a "Task Force" class for my major wherein students come up with advisory policy papers on current events. My group is studying the European Union and the supernational parties that operate there. We are to analyze how the system is currently functioning and offer suggestions as to how to make it operate more democratically. I am also involved in "The Dream Project" a high school mentoring program wherein current University of Washington students go to local high schools as mentors to try and help inform students on the available resources for plans after high school whether that be college, trade schools, the military, or finding a job.

I'd like to start conducting my own personal interview series. One with a video and written component, the starting topic would be suicide but I'd also like to cover gender, race and other topics. I’m very interested in law, arts, non-profit, social work, or educational fields.