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I spent over five minutes trying to pick one experience to answer this question because there are too many. Tell us about your most memorable non-academic experience thus far. All these experiences are very important to me. Umesh Korde for his Resilience on Ecological Systems class.

I am also currently a teaching assistant for another professor - Dr. I have been involved in research led by my professor - Dr. I think Johns Hopkins University has a very close-knit academic environment in which professors will do whatever they can to help a student develop their academic interests. How have your lecturers supported you in your studies thus far? Do you think it would have made a difference if you studied at a local institution?ĭefinitely, because I think institutions in America - especially a prestigious one like Johns Hopkins University - provide more career opportunities on a global level compared to institutions in China. I think it’s important for people’s standard of living in the future. I chose to study the environment because I think it’s a relatively unpopular major compared to finance, economics, or computer science.

Source: Shizheng Tie What made you choose to study this course? JJ can’t wait to get back to campus as she has many plans to further her studies in the US. We caught up with her via email to learn more about how she juggles the time difference, her SGA responsibilities and her future plans: Tell us more about yourself. JJ is set to graduate this May and has applied to various graduate schools. More often than not, I need to accommodate by waking up in the middle of the night or by staying up super late,” she tells us. “I am in the SGA and doing research projects, so it’s been difficult to coordinate a time that works for everyone. Her biggest challenge these days is time: there is a 13-hour time difference between Baltimore, Maryland and Luoyang. On campus, JJ is the Environmental Health and Engineering major is a co-chair of the Student Government Association (SGA) committee on Health Safety and Sustainability as well as a participating member of the SGA committee on Academic Affairs where she collects the opinions of underrepresented voices on campus.įor the past year, however, she’s been studying remotely in China. Writing in an article for the Johns Hopkins news column, “I never have enough time to form deep, devoted relationships, and that has especially been the case this year with so few in-person interactions.”

She often finds herself a stranger, yet again, in another new town. For university, she would head to Boston for two years before transferring to Johns Hopkins University. Her teen years, however, were spent in a high school in rural Ohio. Shizheng Tie, more commonly known as JJ, hails from Luoyang, the capital of nine ruling dynasties where the Luo River and Yellow River meet in the west of Henan province.