Pre-Junior Year: Legacy
Looking back on my 3rd year, I see the overall theme was about legacy, both creating my own legacy and being welcomed into existing ones.
During this year, I was inducted into two honoraries on campus: CWEST and Lambda. Throughout my college career, I’ve always looked up to and greatly respected the women in both honoraries. They are movers and shakers, and they literally create the change they want to see, both on and off campus. I never imagined being selected to join these ranks, so it was a great honor and privilege. As a new and permanent part of these sisterhoods, I strive to uphold the legacy I am a part of. Excellence isn’t just an action, it’s a characteristic. When I step into a room, I hope to encourage, inspire, support, and empower current and future students, coworkers, etc. I also look to see what I can learn and how I can grow.
The main way I’ve begun to create my own legacy is through Engineering Diplomats. After returning to the US in July having been abroad in South Korea for 6 months, I didn’t expect to have another international experience in the near future. However, a few days after I arrived back in the US, I was contacted by the College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) Joint Co-op Institute (JCI), which has a partnership with Chongqing University (CQU), a partner university in China. In Fall 2017, the senior class of EEs & MEs from each university will be merged to complete the final year together on UC’s campus. JCI reached out to me and a few other students to see if we would be interested in raising awareness and creating resources for this upcoming change. Out of this original mission, I, along with three other students, founded the Engineering Diplomats.
As an organization, the Engineering Diplomats has pushed me to combine all the skills I’ve learned from my first two years in college to successfully execute the organization’s mission. I’ve had to be a leader, event planner, networker, budgeter, secretary, and everything in-between. We’ve held food events, hosted cultural activities, and created partnerships, programs, and resources that we hope both support CQU students’ needs and incorporate them into CEAS smoothly. During winter break, JCI took us on a week-long trip to China. While there, I immersed myself in Chinese culture and met CQU students, which provided me with a more detailed view about the type of resources CQU students desired when coming to UC. I’m proud of the what I’ve accomplished with my fellow co-founders thus far, and I am excited to have started something that will continue into the foreseeable future.
I’ve been truly blessed throughout the past year, and I’ve had the opportunity to further invest in my campus community and create closer connections with like-minded leaders on campus. My 4th year of college will be about maintaining the legacy that I’ve started and the ones I now help to continue. I hope to grow as a leader and begin to develop my professional skills and mindset as I move into my final two years as a UC student.
During this year, I was inducted into two honoraries on campus: CWEST and Lambda. Throughout my college career, I’ve always looked up to and greatly respected the women in both honoraries. They are movers and shakers, and they literally create the change they want to see, both on and off campus. I never imagined being selected to join these ranks, so it was a great honor and privilege. As a new and permanent part of these sisterhoods, I strive to uphold the legacy I am a part of. Excellence isn’t just an action, it’s a characteristic. When I step into a room, I hope to encourage, inspire, support, and empower current and future students, coworkers, etc. I also look to see what I can learn and how I can grow.
The main way I’ve begun to create my own legacy is through Engineering Diplomats. After returning to the US in July having been abroad in South Korea for 6 months, I didn’t expect to have another international experience in the near future. However, a few days after I arrived back in the US, I was contacted by the College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) Joint Co-op Institute (JCI), which has a partnership with Chongqing University (CQU), a partner university in China. In Fall 2017, the senior class of EEs & MEs from each university will be merged to complete the final year together on UC’s campus. JCI reached out to me and a few other students to see if we would be interested in raising awareness and creating resources for this upcoming change. Out of this original mission, I, along with three other students, founded the Engineering Diplomats.
As an organization, the Engineering Diplomats has pushed me to combine all the skills I’ve learned from my first two years in college to successfully execute the organization’s mission. I’ve had to be a leader, event planner, networker, budgeter, secretary, and everything in-between. We’ve held food events, hosted cultural activities, and created partnerships, programs, and resources that we hope both support CQU students’ needs and incorporate them into CEAS smoothly. During winter break, JCI took us on a week-long trip to China. While there, I immersed myself in Chinese culture and met CQU students, which provided me with a more detailed view about the type of resources CQU students desired when coming to UC. I’m proud of the what I’ve accomplished with my fellow co-founders thus far, and I am excited to have started something that will continue into the foreseeable future.
I’ve been truly blessed throughout the past year, and I’ve had the opportunity to further invest in my campus community and create closer connections with like-minded leaders on campus. My 4th year of college will be about maintaining the legacy that I’ve started and the ones I now help to continue. I hope to grow as a leader and begin to develop my professional skills and mindset as I move into my final two years as a UC student.