by jinkimn | Apr 28, 2025 | 2011, Recipient's Blog
Sometimes not winning a scholarship is not the end of the world, or the end of a proposed project. Strauss applicant Alex Colavin, who proposed a community garden at UCI, did not win a Strauss Scholarship. But with tenacity and vision, he ended up getting the project...
by jinkimn | Apr 28, 2025 | 2011, Recipient's Blog
Hola from Mexico! I have been in Queretaro, Mexico for about 2 months now on a Fulbright teaching assistantship. Aside from teaching four days a week, I have been trying to absorb as much culture as I can. I recently started to take a class on how to make Mexican...
by jinkimn | Apr 28, 2025 | 2011, Recipient's Blog
I am currently working at Rothschild, Mexico and taking MBA courses at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico through my Fulbright binational business scholarship. It has been three months since embarking on my experience and I have not been disappointed. ...
by jinkimn | Apr 28, 2025 | 2011, Recipient's Blog
The 4:30 AM call to prayer has become a part of my daily soundtrack to life in Indonesia. Torrential rains are often a signal to the end of my day. Each teaching day I hear the chorus of “Hello Mr. Mark” as numerous students either give me an oddly familiar...
by junyh1 | Sep 8, 2022 | 2010, Recipient's Blog
2nd entry: On February 12, 2010, I witnessed the first snowfall to blanket Rome since February 1986 (oddly enough, exactly two weeks before I was born). The city was in an uproar: banks closed, traffic was at a standstill, children ran from their classrooms to throw...
by junyh1 | Sep 8, 2022 | 2010, Recipient's Blog
1st entry: It is difficult to put into words the sense of awe I feel daily living in Rome. The Fulbright scholarship I received for Art History has taken me to parts of the city that few (if any) travelers ever see: national libraries, private collections of rare...
