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A Letter to My Younger Sibling (Advice for International Graduate Students)

Dear Andy, First off, congratulations! You’ve accomplished a great milestone in life, and I am so proud of you. It’s hard studying abroad. After spending all the time studying and staying competitive among your peers, you still have to face an even more brutal challenge: finding a job and staying in the States. Nobody is […]

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The Creativity Split (China’s No Panda Express, part 2)

If you think Chinese-speaking countries (Hong Kong, Taiwan and China) do not have creative talents, you are wrong. The post compares the different campaigns between US and China and concludes that the creativity split between the eastern culture and the western one rises from the subtleties of emotion approach.

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Are There Better Places to be?

I still remember the feeling I had a month ago upon learning Steve Jobs passed away. The news, for some reason, made me extremely upset. And listening to his famous speech at Stanford, which embraced the ideals of creativity and pursuing careers that ignite lives, certainly did not alleviate my feelings of loss. I kept […]

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One street, one window, and one plaza – a collage of my Spain journey

Even outside of the airplane window, a gloomy sky awaiting, I told myself, “Everything is going to be alright.” That is how elated I was: a week in Spain made me feel like a new person. I still remember the moment when I arrived in Madrid. Our cab pulling from roundabouts and swirling in between […]

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Your Birthday Gift to Me

I turn 28 today. This year has been the fifth year since I followed my American dream and moved to the States. As much as I miss my parents and family back in Taiwan, I feel living in the States provides me with another perspective I wouldn’t have otherwise. I’m more willing to speak up, […]

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