Introduction

Hello, class, my name is Shiyang Wang and I am a freshman at ASU like most of you all if not all. I have one 3-year-old ABC (American-born Chinese) brother. I graduated from Desert Vista High School in Ahwatukee, Phoenix, and I still come back to visit my small family and friends every weekend. I chose ASU because it has a great engineering school and it is close to my home. My current major is chemical engineering and I live in Palo Verde Main, on the way north part of ASU and across the street from the stadium and Wells Fargo Arena. When people at ASU ask me where I am from, I reply with "Ahwatukee", but other times I say I was born in Sendai, Japan and raised in the different villages of Shaoxing and Taiyuan, China. I am 100% pure Chinese blood, but I am a very culturally friendly person, as my music playlist is composed of songs in Swedish, Finnish, Japanese, Korean and "Ancient Ispanian".

As you can tell, my favorite colors are green and black, though not necessarily together. My hobbies are playing clarinet, piano, and guitar. I have an ear for music; I am able to learn how to play bits and pieces of songs just by listening to them and familiarizing myself. I also enjoy watching anime, singing, reading manga, and drawing. I admit I can be an Internet Meme nerd at certain times. I am not a very big video gamer like I am an anime nerd, but I do enjoy playing certain games, such as Dragon Age Origins, FFX (Final Fantasy X) and several of the Tales series (Abyss, Legendia, Phantasia, Symphonia, Xillia, etc.) in my free time.

I believe that life is a blog itself; it is an individual's responsibility to fill it in. I start my story with ASU. Before I fell in love with chemistry, I aimed to major in art or music and hoping to work as a character designer at Bandai-Namco in Japan. I still plan to pursue this old dream sometime in my long life, either before or after I write my climax as a chemical engineer. My goals after college are to attend graduate school, work in a perfumery if not with other fellow engineers and chemists, and travel the world.

I really hope to get along with everyone in ENG 102! ♥