Humans of DV: Week 46
Udita Jonnala, Emily Wong, and Allan Zhang
This week on Humans of DV: a student with a passion for teaching, an ardent neuroscientist, and a talented volleyball player. Stay tuned for next week’s installation of this feature and make sure to catch the last installation here if you missed it.
“I create videos that can teach the content of an entire school course in just a few hours.”
Jesse Li: “I started teaching during COVID. Due to the school shutdowns, I started learning from other high school students by myself, like learning Java on Zoom. I was inspired by them, and the fact that COVID caused a major disruption in education, to teach by myself. So I first taught calculus on Zoom during the summer of 2020, and after that, from the summer of 2021 onwards, I’ve been teaching ...
“Do whatever makes you happy… like for me, cutting brains.”
Ashneet Dhami: “Since kindergarten to seventh grade, I knew I would do something in the medical field. [I decided this] without my parents' total influence. And so, I’d watch documentaries, brain games, and 'Mythbusters.' [Then] what happened was in 10th grade I was doing my homework and came across this one chapter about the nervous system and got dragged into it. It started from there. In se...
“The excitement of the last point and the whole team working hard to get the point back is always worth it at the end.”
Christa Zhou: "I started getting into volleyball when I was younger, ironically through a video game that we had on the PS3. It was sort of like Wii sports but for the PS3 and it had beach volleyball on it. Volleyball just caught my eye at that moment and it is honestly what inspired me to play. My proudest accomplishment was being able to have seen consistency throughout my years playing voll...
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