Chloe Shih

I'm only one of eight or something.

And that was like a crazy culture shock.

People are extremely wealthy in private school.

So I was like really shocked too.

And people did not care about school either.

There are people who like went to college to find their partners to get married and like party.

So I think that was confusing to me as someone who like thought I was supposed to go for academics.

And then like the financial pressure was there of like, if I don't take all my courses and do really well in pre-med and whatever,

then it's wasting my parents' time and their investment, their bet on me.

I cried a lot.

I was like, wow, I'm so dumb.

I can't really read this book.

I fall asleep on page one.

I just tried really hard.

I think because I was not talented, I had to learn how to learn for someone who's not good at learning.

brute force like that I just showed up to every office hour I would sit in the front row of every class I would force myself to ask at least one question to the professor every single time I would just learn how to insert myself because I knew if I didn't I would not know how to retain anything and

And if I didn't, I just I'm not a I can't really read like I'm not good at reading.

So it doesn't retain for me.

And I need to interact with the person to teach me.

And then eventually after years, when I did like a three plus two engineering program where it's like three years in liberal arts school and then two years at an engineering institution.