User:Jie Yang

My Name

My name is Jie Yang. Jie is pronounced as "Jee-ye", and Yang is pronounced as "young". I am from China. Therefore there are two beautiful Chinese characters that correspond to my name: "杨" and "婕". 杨 is my last name "Yang", and 婕 is my first name "Jee-ye". The character "婕" in Chinese is the middle name of a famous female writer in Han Dynasty. My parents give me this name partly because they want me to be well-read, and partly because they want me to earn big money and live a more than wealthy life. However, as for money and literature, I guess I just favor anime more.

My fall classes

If anyone happens to concern, I'm now taking Bio 201 (which is killing me with 40 pages of impossible-to-read textbook each week), EGR 103 ( the best class ever offered in the history of Duke University :) ), Writing 101: Social Movements in America ( I have a 1500 word paper first draft due this Friday, on a 160-page book that I still haven't started reading), and Math 122L ( Unfortunately just earned a sad sad 67% on a quiz).

I'm also taking endurance swimming with coach McCune on Tuesday and Thursday morning, for mediating freshman 15 and for motivating myself to work out regularly. Not always the slowest in the class, but sadly for most of the time, THE SLOWEST. But, our coach is super nice, and there are people who just happen not to have practiced swimming that intensively in high school, just as me.

If you want some more information about any of my classes, I'm more than happy to talk about it and offer some hopefully helpful advice.

Interests

Movies, especially animations made by [Miyazaki Hayao].