ESP Biography

10 years ago, my parents signed me up for Stanford Splash. I didn't really want to go, but ended up taking one of the most thought-provoking classes that changed my life. Now that I'm a student here at Stanford, the lessons I learned from that class about intellectual vitality are prevalent in many of my classmates from all backgrounds, whether computer science like me, engineering, arts, humanities, business, or medicine. In this class, I'll share some of the things I've learned throughout my life about honing interests, developing passion projects, and creative thinking. More about this class: A common cliche used all the time is "do a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life." The thing is, if you ask most young people, most of us have no idea what our jobs should be, and it makes sense. It's super hard to think about what we want to do for the rest of their life when we barely know what we're going to do tomorrow. I want to try to dig into that premise a little bit and share that, if we all think creatively, there's a lot about ourselves that we don't give ourselves enough credit for, and this question about life's passion can be very simple to answer.