Chloe Shih

Like I was, my consciousness was not there.

Um, I, what does that mean?

I was like, I don't know.

I heard I was really dumb in elementary school and that the teachers were all really concerned.

Like I wasn't paying attention.

And then I just barely made it in my grade.

I think that growing up, my parents were just really, really busy with their own small business.

And it was me and my two younger brothers.

And then we would be kind of home alone all the time.

And we would just have to figure out our food, get home ourselves, or stay at school until we can find a way to get home.

And it was really simple.

I think we did not have a lot.

of resources nothing it's just yeah it was like sounds like very simple like a not uncommon immigrant experience coming to the united states yeah very very typical of that and then i went to um college i went to the claremont colleges uh private school actually

Paid a lot.

I got an insanely great grant and my parents really, really valued education.

So they wanted me to go private too.

They knew I was dumb.

so they're like you need private school for because if you go to public school you will not be able to study and I'm like damn I hate that I wanted to go to UCLA or something uh yeah and I was really miserable because I did not fit in my first year I went to Pitzer College one of the Claremonts um and that was just not a good like culture fit how so I was uh there were like

five or eight Asians in my entire class.

And then I went from like 66 majority Asians to...