Mentoring at Carolina Covenant Program
"Min mentored me for several years while she was a Royster Fellow and I was a Covenant Scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill. She was always accessible and helpful via email and eager to meet me in person whether I had specific questions about academic and professional development or she just wanted to catch up and see how I was doing. Min was consistently engaged in our meetings and provided me with candid and concrete advice whenever I asked for it. Most of my conversations with Min revolved around academic philosophy as a profession and my decision to pursue a career in that profession.
Min even continued working with me and advising me during the two years after my undergraduate graduation while I was working on my graduate school applications, even though she had no professional obligation to do so. She met with me multiple times while I was working on my writing sample in the philosophy of mathematics, helping me direct my inquiry in the early stages of my writing and giving thorough and constructive comments on multiple drafts of the sample. Min's feedback was enormously instructive for me and helped me craft a much stronger writing sample than I would have been able to otherwise. She provided similarly helpful feedback on the other portions of my application, including my statement of purpose, my CV, and my diversity statement. Thanks to her guidance through the Royster mentorship and beyond, I'm now a PhD student in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. I would not be here without Min! "
--Russell McIntosh PhD Student in Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley
Language Attachment Project at K-12
Through the in-class practices and projects we did together, how do you feel about your relationship with the Chinese language? Do you feel that it is just a course or a task or some stuff that you have to finish? Or do you think that the Chinese language becomes something that can genuinely reflect who you are, how much you grow, what you are passionate about, and what you think it's important to you? How does your feeling about the Chinese language change over the past six weeks?
"I really like this class. Instead of just learning it and getting over it, I’m fully engaged, having thoughtful and important conversations; some in Chinese! Getting to know more languages can really help your brain grow and shape who you are which is part of the reason I decided to do Chinese. It’s also really important to learn not only about the language but also where the language derives from. I’ve learned a lot about the Chinese culture."
--Participant's response to the Language Attachment Project