Lily Wu
Lily is a
transfer student from Salt Lake Community College double majoring at the U of U
in Asian and International Studies with a minor in Japanese.
While at
SLCC Lily was heavily involved in the Peer Action Leadership group. As part of this group she helped with many
SLCC events, doing over 200 hours of community service! Some of the notable
events that she helped with were the Sweethearts
Dance at the Taylorsville Senior Center and the 1000 Cranes for Japan activity in memory of the Tohoku disaster in
Japan. Lily was the primary leader for
this event.
While at
the U of U, Lily has participated in a Learning Abroad program at Waseda
University in Tokyo, Japan. She has also
been involved in activities with the Center for Ethnic Student Affairs and she currently
works in Career Services.
Lily’s long
term goals are to work in the Foreign Service or some other sort of government
work. She recently accepted an offer
through the Japanese Embassy in Denver to work with the Japan Exchange and
Teaching Program (JET) where she will have the opportunity to teach English in
Japan. She eventually hopes to end up
living in Ireland or the United Kingdom.
Lily chose
to transfer to the U because of the great resources it offered such as the
Learning Abroad Center, Career Services, and the Asia Center. She also liked
the fact that the campus was easily accessible by public transit and that as a
student she could ride for free.
She felt a
bit lost at the U at first. The campus
seemed large compared to SLCC, and it took her a while to get used to all the
new terminology and policies she encountered here. She eventually got used to
all the changes and enjoyed the new challenges and opportunities the U offered
her.
We are glad
Lily chose to transfer to the U of U! It
will be great to have her representing our school as she travels the world!
