- Hiking is one of my favorite activities to embrace nature. The most challenging trip was spending 10 hours to climb Mt. Fuji. I felt all my struggles are worthwhile when seeing the stunning idyllic Japanese scenery from the peak.
- I am a passionate magician since elementary school. By performing magic, I want to bring everyone the feeling of happiness, joy, and surprise.
- I have a notebook to accumulate funny jokes from daily life. I like using these punch lines whenever I need to cheer myself up or my friends. Every magician is a hidden witty talker.
- I wake up early every morning. Because my dog always comes to me at 7 am and demands that I feed him – he is my alarm clock!
- Not only puppies love me, but children also love being around me. During college, I volunteered to teach children from remote villages in China.
- During college, inspired by my best friend who is in an interracial dating relationship, I advocated for interracial dating by presenting a seminar to my fraternity community and encouraged people to join my efforts.
- Starting from elementary, I played on school badminton teams and competed professionally. My biggest takeaway is to have a deeper understanding of win and lose. Not only about the result, but the process when competing with the opponent helps me to grow.
- My record is being rejected over 200 times in a day when I was doing the cold calling market research.
- My favorite color is red because it is associated with the characteristics of strength and passion. I also wear a pair of red boxing gloves for training to keep motivating myself.
- While everyone else hates commercial advertisements on media, I do love watching it! Because every time I unconsciously disassemble its creativity, effectiveness, and marketing strategy behind it.
- When I was a kid, I would regularly dissemble my mechanical toys to discover how they work. The curiosity remains inside me and it pushes me to see how everything works in the world.
- What I appreciate my parents the most is the diligence that starts from the bottom and grows to who they are today, and allows me to be abroad and receive international education.
- I love photography and video directing. This also helped my fraternity Instagram account tripled its followers.
- Another personal record was during the time studying in London. I was a backpacker and set foot to 10 different countries in 13 days.
- I have a nickname of “Challenge Taker”. During the first year I came to the States, I overcome my fear of speaking English publicly by volunteering to perform magic for different school events.
- I love my Chinese name “Yi Shu”, which means spread wings and fly higher. And I do not need an English name because everyone can pronounce it right easily!
- In my backpack, there is always a detective book from Agatha Christie. The complex and plot-driven variety of detective stories intrigue me immensely. It also taught me the detail matters!
- Although I am not married and do not have children, I have a baby girl to take care of. She’s my younger sister and is 21 years younger than me!
- I am a stickler for making a to-do list, no matter how small the thing is. I feel so satisfied when crossing off each line.
- From not understanding American football at all but grown to completely enjoy it, I see this as a sign of me getting Americanized.
Yi Shu 