Hey! My name is Nina. I am studying economics and business institutions, and I just finished my sophomore year (woohoo). I grew up in New York City, in fact I transferred from NYU, so I just finished my first year at Northwestern four days ago. It was an amazing whirlwind of firsts: living in a dorm and having to kill my own spiders, doing laundry for the first time and dying all my white clothes blue, being in the Midwest and seeing a raccoon for the first time, and finding out that there is a lake (PLEASE visit a school before you commit to it haha), but now I am ready for the next adventure in my life, studying abroad at Peking University!
On an academic level, I chose to study abroad in China because I wanted to become more proficient in the language, and also, due to the prominence of China in business and economics, I wanted to learn more about the roots of China’s current political and economic atmosphere.
On a more personal level, I have always yearned to have the more “American” experience that a lot of kids get to have here, which is to attend your parents’ alma mater. As an American with a father who attended Peking University, I never would have imagined having this same experience of stepping foot on the same campus as my parent, and imagining their life as it must have been decades ago. This program has presented me with this wonderfully unique opportunity, and I intend to take full advantage of this.
Most of all, after eating dining hall food for a year straight, I am SO excited for the amazing food that I will eat. This white-washed Asian American city girl is graduating from fake asian food in America to the real thing!!
