Artifacts: Notebook

The notebook that I am holding is where all of my goals started. I am a person that likes to keep all my ideas in a space, and in my case it is the notebook. In my notebook I write down all of my thinking and ideas, and a lot of them are goals I want to accomplish in the future. Being a person who have many interests, I have always want to create a platform to share my work and idea. My career goal is to work in an industry of fashion, design, and social media; therefore, knowing and creating a platform is an important skill. In my notebook I have written down many ideas in how to create this platform and what kind of content I will include in my platform. Finally this year I have putted all into a website of my own, and this became my platform that I have been planning in my notebook for a long time. I am thinking about building this platform to be a place where I will share my thinking and expressing more of my interests in art, fashion, and music. I hope I can continue build up my skills in the platform, and also keep writing in my notebook to come up with more great ideas.

my website:

https://elainayang25.wixsite.com/website

Artifacts: Buckeyethon event

Grandpa’s letter taught me a lot in life, and giving is part of the lesson in the letter. The red shirt I worn in this picture represent my passion in giving to others. The buckeyethon event at OSU is a fundraising event to help children with pediatric cancer. the funding will go into research or help the family and kids directly. The kids I met in the pictures smile and laugh so brightly in the picture, but we will never see the other side of them when they were battling with their body. My biggest hope is to help those kids even just a little, and maybe just to make them laugh. By doing Buckeyethon, I really feel like my work was done for the real good. With those huge amount of money, I hope the family can feel more hopeful and maybe find a cure for the kids. I also grew a lot in this event being only a member in my freshman year, and a team captain at my sophomore year. The more time I spent in this event, the happier I felt because I am doing something good for other people.

For the kids!

Artifacts: Letter from Grandpa

One artifact that is very important in my life is a letter that my grandpa gave before i left Shanghai. I moved to U.S. at the age of eleven, and this letter was my grandpa’s last gift for me before i departure from the Shanghai’s airport. The letter was wrinkled and plain. However, the meaning of the letter is undeniably meaningful. This letter is important to me becasue it taught  me a lesson to never give up and study harder for yourself and not for others. My grandparents told me in the letter to adapt to the new environment and study harder than before. It also said i need to grow up more like an adult since now i will be living with my parents. I suddenly realized i need to change my way of thinking and behaving after reading this letter. It suprised me at first that my grandpa wrote all of this in the letter because he never says anything like that before. However, it made me want to be a better person and accomplish my goals in life. I want to help those people that I can and I want to be a person that he could be proud of.