#jinstudies

RCM Levels 5-7 have some pretty great music.

hi jin! i’m doing alright. hope you’re doing well, too! :)

💰: do you plan to do a post-grad?

i’m thinking about it! idk if i want to go to grad school right after i’m done with my final year of undergrad, though. i kinda wanna take a year off after i graduate and explore other options? honestly, thinking about the future in general scares me a bit, ahaha. we’ll see!

🌗: are you a morning or night studier?

a bit of both! i definitely prefer studying in the morning if i can, but i often end up studying at night.

- Post the rules

- Answer the questions given to you by the tagger

- Write eleven questions of your own

- Tag eleven people

Questions:

- Summer or winter? winter

- English or Maths? english (i use to like math more, but a certain teacher ruined it for me)

- Favourite classical piece? huh... this is a hard one. but my to-go answer is always Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso by Saint Saens, Sibelius Violin Concerto mvt. 3, and Debussy String Quartet in G minor

- Favourite piece to play/perform on principal study? i’m a sucker for sonatas, so right now my favorite is Frank Violin Sonata 

- Favourite musical? The World Goes ‘Round, Oklahoma!, and Chicago

- Pizza or pasta? pasta

- Favourite animal? ducks

- Favourite colour? lavender

- Do you have any siblings? a twin sister and two older brothers

- Are you a Disney fan? oh yes... 

- Favourite tumblr account? all the musicblr community 

tagging: @just-a-violinist @studysquishy @senpaisquared @gloomstudy @armcnia @akaristudies @diaryofastemstudent @cellostudying @jinstudies @heather-journal @litaulait

1. Always post these rules 2. Answer the questions given by the person who tagged you 3. Write 11 questions of your own 4. Tag 11 people

tagged by @jinstudies like five million eons ago i’m so bad at doing this i like start it then save it in my drafts and then whoops a year has passed

1. If you could visit a fictional location, which would it be?

hmm somewhere with talking animals. would be cool to like, ask them stuff. 

2. What is your ideal breakfast?

open-faced sandwich (one slice of bread with a sunny-side up egg and pepper bacon) and a cup of warm coffee while camping in a forest; or breakfast sausage, toast with apple cinnamon jelly, scrambled eggs and tabasco sauce, and a mimosa, sitting outdoors on a patio overlooking something nice.. like the ocean. (i really like breakfast/brunch can’t you tell)

3. What is your favourite soundtrack from any form of media?

pacific rim soundtrack. it makes me feel badass. also the soundtrack from wicked--it’s just lovely

4. What are some words that you may pronounce differently?

it’s goh-dEE-va chocolates u heathens, not goh-deye-va 

5. And what do you like to eat with your rice?

everything (i’m chinese, so yeah, pretty much everything)

6. Do you have a sports team that you support?

not really, but i do pay attention to the phoenix suns and arizona state univ’s teams bc hometown and alma mater

7. How do you like your coffee or tea? If you don’t drink either, what is your favourite drink?

black tea and black coffee. i absolutely do not enjoy cream or sugar in my coffee, unless it’s the very occasional lattee or frap. yep, i’m one of those ~~purists~~

8. Is there a book that profoundly impacted you (for better or for worse)? Which one?

hmm the only one i can think of is Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee. I read it before grad school and it propelled me even further into the field of cancer biology

9. What font do you use when typing up papers/reports/what-have-you?

Arial 11 pt, with 0.5″ page margins. it’s the standard format used for NIH grants and i’ve just started doing it for everything. 

10. What was the most effective / eye-catching advertisement that you have seen?

that one thai life insurance commercial bc my god does it make me cry every single damn time and reminds me to always try to help. bc a small thing for me may mean the world for someone else. 

11. Who do you admire?

my past PI, my current PI, and everyone who’s had to face adversity but became badass anyway

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i tag: @caffeinatedcraziness, @caffeinebooks, @nutritionphd, @the-astro-girl, @meancereal, @benzeneandcaffeine, @studying-is-in-my-genes, @roundlittledog, @lavendermedusa, @nerhdd, @geneticblr

to answer these questions:

1. what do you think are some health issues that science and medicine should prioritize more of right now?

2. what started your interest in the field/career path you’re in now?

3. what’s the most daring thing you’ve ever done?

4. what’s something your blog followers may not know about you?

5. what are your goals for the remainder of 2017?

6. if you won $1000 and had to use it to splurge on something for yourself, what would it be?

7. what’s your “white whale”? aka something you’ve seen/experienced before that now you’re obsessed with finding again but you just! can’t! seem to! find!

8. you get to say one sentence to past!you. what do you say? 

9. what were you irrationally terrified of as a kid?

10. what do you think the world needs more of right now?

lol of course you send me the food question

soup: comfort food?

干炒牛河, one of my most favorite cantonese dishes! :)

26/100 days ft. Hello Kitty and Squirtle