Chloe Shih

So that was three years in the Claremont Colleges and the two years at Columbia University, which is their sister or like partner program.

When I finally got there, Columbia does not give a fuck about you as a student.

You're on your own.

It's a research institution.

Then I knew how to be on my own.

Like private liberal arts, like small liberal arts school, you're in a classroom of 30 people and the professor knows your name and then they really focus on the academics.

It's like, I'm here to teach you.

But then in larger universities, because I think, yeah, you also went to Harvard and like, yeah, so you know that a lot of,

professors are there to do research they don't care about the students and the quality of their lectures they just kind of find a lecture online someone someone else someone else's put up the slides and they look like they're looking at the slides for the first time in their lives they're like oh and then they teach on the spot yeah i remember i remember and they would say like yeah you guys should know this theorem and i'm just like what i've never learned this before

And yeah, so I think they, a lot of professors do not care.

They were not incentivized to care.

So it's fine.

I get it.

Well, I guess, but I didn't know that was happening.

I blacked out I think most of university to be honest yeah I think I just like really laser focused on just surviving and I didn't really pay attention to my emotional development I think I just like wanted to get the grades and survive classes and then somehow get a job and then I did a lot of leadership too I did a lot of like club activity non-profits and

That took a lot of time and did dance as well.

But I would say people would characterize me as like that girl with a really big backpack running across campus.

Really sweaty.

Yeah.

I guess that's true.