Regardless of the language being translated, a word-for-word translation will never fully communicate the subtleties of the original message. Although it might be highly accurate, it still might not convey the emotion or intent. Particularly in translations from Chinese to English, where there are multiple English translations for one Chinese word, each word or phrase conveys an underlying tone. Additionally, because Chinese is a more concise language than English, I knew that in order to design my tour, I would...

I asked two teachers who taught me junior year to write my recommendation letters. Truth be told, a big factor in my choices lay in the advice I received and later used from an upperclassman friend. As I went to a relatively small school, I lucked out in the sense that I felt like I knew all of my teachers relatively well – it was just up to me to figure out who could, and was willing to, write the best letter for me. One of the teachers I chose was my Advanced Physics teacher. I had spoken to her on...