My name is Zhi Chen and I’m a freshman. I came from Queens, New York. I’m an immigrant from China, I moved to this country several years ago. My current major is astronomy/planetary science. I’m also planning on taking music as a minor but I have not decided yet. I started having interests in music because my roommate is a music major. I was fascinated by how many instruments that he has, including keyboard, guitar, ukulele, and etc. I was inspired by him and remember that I once had interest in playing guitar but I quit after I bought the guitar. And I recently decided to re-learn guitar. Other than playing guitar, I also like to play all sorts of games with my friends. My other hobbies include watching anime and movies.

In the aspect of my writing history, I have been asked to write every year by my teachers. This does not simply include writing class but every other type of courses. For example, writing emails, lab reports, and etc. I do like writing when I’m free to write down my ideas and my intended purposes, but I hate English writing. It is because the grammar and punctuation restriction. I still remembers time when I had such amazing ideas but they would just make my sentences too complicated. I was afraid that I would get points deducted because I’m probably going to make a grammar mistake. I definitely believe writing is ne of the most important “technology” that humans invented. Before writing was invented, people had to memorize everything in their head, but with this new innovative “technology” people are able to cheat and write them down and store them somewhere else. This works just like modern computers. However, I feel putting a strong restriction on grammars would just deviate the main purpose of writing.

  ( I love cats by the way )