Humans of DV: Week 9

Sana Shehabi “Anyone who has ever met me knows that I love tennis. No matter the temperature outside, I love going out on the courts to practice. To me, tennis is not a sport; it is my life. I am a completely different person now than I was before I started playing. The biggest thing I realized while playing is that you can achieve anything if you have the passion for it. That kind of sounds cl...

Karina Chen “I became interested in robotics around two years ago. I started to help my brother's robotics team. I advised them with more of the presentation side of robotics first, since I didn’t know how to code at the time. But after I started to become more comfortable with coding and robotics in general, I became their mentor. Mentoring the team taught me how to be more cooperative and I th...

Stephanie Su “I started getting into fashion in seventh grade when I realized it could make a huge difference in my appearance and make me feel a lot more confident. I wanted to find one way to express myself, and I wasn’t particularly good at art, but I found fashion was an easier medium to show my own creativity. At the beginning, I always had one type of outfit, but as time went on, I real...

Danielle Suh “I started playing golf when I was 4 years old, so about 13 years. My dad took me out when I was really young to this place called Harding Park in San Francisco. My uncle is also a professional golfer ... so I just got into the game like that. My dad ... kept taking me out [to play] and I just loved it ... My dad always took me to tournaments, just tried to do the best he could. He always put ...