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Ready for university life and quickly discovers that this electronics major she picked with zero concept
I guess it was hard academically bruheheavily based in h and phphsics
The very subjects sh''wananted escape after high school
No no
She list the courses
Advanced math like same level was the map department
Linear algebra engineering math
Digital circuits
Analogucircuits
Sea plus plus is assembly language signal systems
Control systems engineering
Drawing
Okay Yeah
That's
That's a serious worklolooespecially if you weren't expecting out or feeling superconfident those areas
What a shock her initial feeling
She says reflecting on her gucoout scocoand mamaybe fereality of this major was a sense of self abandonment
Oof that's heavy like feeling defeated before you been really started
I can see that
But then she had this key realization about her classmates a lot of them also brilliant you know
Maybe was their second choice too
Where they just chose not to leave guandon province ah
So she realized she wasn't alone
And maybe not getting her top top choice
But she was still surrounded by really capable people exactly is shifted her perspective
Helped her move past her own gokout disappointment and see the high calibre the place she's landed that's a crucial shift
So how does she describe her university years overall she bowls it down to three keywords
First information explosion make sense moving from a rural village to a massive city
Like wangzoo huge cultural leap plus the language barrier
Her dialect versus mandate in cananies
The climate difference and just the sheer diversity of classmates from all over china
Constant shocking moments
She called them like information overload totally and at least directed to the second keyword free exploration okay
How so although shocks made her realize how much she didn't know
She felt like a blank slaate uh
So her priority shifted dramatic away from just academis
Yeah
She decided
She needed to explore to understand the world become a more well rounded person
She consciously lower the priority of for major studies and sleep
Wow
And she really went for it dn't
She Oh Yeah
Over three years
She joined or founded eighteen student clubs and organizations
Led eight of them participated in tons of research competitions
That's incredible energy
That's incliberate strategy to use university for broad personal development
Alongside this tough technical degree that blank sleet feeling really fuelled her and the third key word which kind of prey her everything poverty
Ah this wasn't just being a broke student
It was more serious
Much more
She mentioned the annual accommodation fee fifty hundred
Her parents couldn't fathom it
They compared to others paying under four hundred back home
So asking for living expenses was really difficulult
Incredibly tormenting
She says
Because of their complaints
Their lack of understanding of the costs in a big city
That financial strain must have been constant
It was her primary driver
It pushed her constantly hunting for scholarships
Grants any on campus workstudy off campus jobs
Anything to support herself
And even with all that she said she lived very frugally
Sometimes struggling on the verge of not having enough food for three years
Until she started in turning
Wow
It just shows how financial necessity can really force you to be resourceful
But also the immense pressure it adds to everything else
The studies
The social adjustment so moving towards the end of university
The what's next question starts looming right
She saw senior ous planning career yeah in herself more year
Already so she started thinking
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Grad school or get a job planning ahead again
She decided not to go straight to a masters um the reason purely financial lack of economic strength
She put it needed to earn money fast
Exactly she had this idea
Maybe she's study abroad later like for an mba after saving up okay the practicality one out again
But that decision had consequences for her underground studies were big time immean she had a crim
All her required course credits into her soft more in junior years just to free up her entire senior year for internships
Yeah at ding even more pressure to those already packed years of exploration and will survival very delivered planning
And she learned something important during a summer internship after junior year
Ah ah
She realized just how hard it was keep up serious academic study
While working king tensesea real world lesson probably solitifiy her plan to focus just on work in senior year
And here's where her drive just seems off the charts
She worried
She lose the energy or discipline to study for gradual years down ma line after working
So what does she do
During her senior year
She simultaneously ly turn full time
Wrote her graduation thesis and prepared for the gr exam way all the same time
All at the same time
That is an almost unbelievable level of multttasaswoking finishing her degree and prepping for a future application years away this is discipline
Wow
And after being this superactive visible person on campus for three years
She kind of vanished totally disappear
She says just focused on those parallel tracks
Her graduation was apparently superquick understated set her goodbyes clear her dorm right after the ceremony and then fluto beijing the very next morning for totful classes
Ses keep the stustudy abroad prep going
Wow just bamb the next step
No messing around very focused her first proper job ray came through an internmonyeah ah in the internet industry
Ah ah a product manmaner er
Which is she's been doing now for what ten years yep
That first internship was clearly pivotal launched her career
She shared a couple of internship interview stories from junior year too didn't she tencent was mentioned elsewhere then png the market departpment management trainy role
She called it a dream company for top seniors failed the english written test uh a setback happens everyone right even with all that drive didn't stop her overall
And the thirteen of you story ibm in guonang zoo okay
What happened there the hr person asked this icebreak er question
What was your most profound experiencing guong zoo seems simple enough yeah
But it triggered something deep
She just broke down
Crying
Oh wow in the interview yeah
And confessed the first first ever ver a stranganger immense guilt
She carried about her father ther
But at him the night he dropped off at university
He slept under an overpass
Because he had nowhere else affordable to stay
Oh my god that's hearticking
And she been carrying that guilt all this time apparently um it reveals this hidden emotional weight beneath all the activity
The striving the financial struggle
That simple question is tapped right into it
The core emotional truth of her experience
There Wow
I can't imagine how hard art that must have been to share
Especially
Then the hr person was comforting
She said
But yeah
The interview you got to ended there
It really underscores the profound interact of those financial struggles not just practically
But emotionally deeply on her
Her family
Her sense of self so looking back at everything
She was asked you know the time machine question
What would you tell you're pass self okay to her high self
Self that very stubborn tomboy living frugly she just huggger
And it's ggoing to be okay
Simple reassurance acknowledging the pressure validating the struggle and to her university self
The very active dark skin girl still living frugly
She poured shoudreder say that poaks not to be okuh
That one hits different
Doesn't it speaks right to those internal struggles
The self abandoned the poverty
The guilt
Even while she was achieving so much
Ouwardly yeah
Giving permission to feel those hard thing recognizing the immense challenges just beneath the surface so thinking about you
The listener hearing this what are the big takeways
What can you pull from chelsea specific path well first off just shyour resilience right that strict school
The poverty
The academic curbballs
The culture shock her ability to just keep pushing through is incredible absolutely a master class in persistence
And it really highlights the value of exploration beyond the main path
Even with no money
She prioritize broadening her horizons becoming well rounded through all those clubs and activities that wasn't secondary for her
It was core
And her story is such a stark reminder of how money or the lack of it shapes life choices dictated grad school plans
Fuelled the constant hussle for work added that huge emotional burden
It shows the lanks wwent to just inindependent ultimately
I think it reinforces the power of just taking ownership
Even with bad info in perfect choices
Huge obstacles her perseververher her drive
Make her paath work that central
Al ah ah thinking back to why this interview is is done for high high scholers facing choices this kind of raw unvarnshh story and such a unique perspective definitely expand the imagination about the different ways of life can unfold
Doesn't it
It's not always linear or perfect
What an arc though from that village
The military style school driven by need in ambition fueling all that exploration
Carrying that emotional weight all the way to a successful tecareer in new york
It's a testament to drive adaptation resilience all of it
So as we wrapped this deep dive up
Here's a final thought for you mabe be moover over
Think about the toughst constraints in your own life
Right now
The things that feel like limitations like obstacles holding you back
Right what if those very challenges maybe paradoxically are actually feeling a deeper drivenue pushing you to explore pads
You wouldn't have otherwise considered revealing strength
You didn't know you had what unexpected opportunities
Might your current struggles be maybe secretly opening up for you
