In his Take Five Scholars Program, Kim is studying the subject of language acquisition-a subject of particular interest to him, since his parents still speak Korean extensively. It's different than anything I've been doing in college. And it's not surprising that all these things connects sooner or later. I guess that's how education is supposed to work. In some ways, you can't even start listing our differences because there are so many.
Students come from all over the United States and the world.
We have different ethnic and religious backgrounds, and we end up majoring in so many areas that you can't keep them all straight. At the end of last year, some of my friends and I pulled out a map and figured out that if we started driving across the United States, we could make it from my home near D.C. all the way to Los Angeles without having to stop anywhere but at places where our friends were from. Initially, I chose Rochester because I loved the academic environment here. I wanted to go to a place where people were actually doing more than reciting information . When I first came here, I thought I would never stop missing home.