Humans of DV: Week 1

Connie Wang “I started calligraphy in the beginning of sophomore year, and it’s also when I started my Instagram account [for calligraphy]. It’s a really nice outlet for me because I’ve always dabbled a bit in art, but it hasn’t been anything serious. Calligraphy is nice because you get to use it in daily life, and it’s not too stressful ... It’s a nice outlet for me to relieve stress...

Anish Lahorani “I started gymnastics when I was 3 years old. It all started when I was watching the Olympics, I was watching gymnastics and it looked really fun. So, I would try to imitate whatever they did in the Olympics on my couch and I would cartwheel and tumble down the stairs, I would do a bunch of crazy stuff. My mom, she would get really scared that I would kill myself, and she said, 'Yo...

Sumukh Cadpakar “Honestly, when I do theater, I sometimes feel attacked by my peers. Being a small little Indian, vegetarian boy, it has ups and downs, to an outside view [and] having bug-eyed glasses kind of put me under the radar in the theater industry. It's struggling to the point where you sometimes have to do almost double the amount of work, in order to just get the same role as any other...

Isha Rajesh “I moved around a lot. I used to live in the U.S. ... then I moved to India and then I moved back to the U.S. Moving around was hard. I had to make new friends, I had to adjust to the culture. I had to even adjust to the language. They spoke English there. But that was British English. So everything was, like, a little different. So I would spell color with a ‘u’ and people would ...