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Student of the Issue: Jerry Yang

The sophomore Chinese exchange student talks about what it is like to live away from family.

Sophomore Jerry Yang has overcome more than just hard tests in his pursuit of education. Traveling from China to the U.S., he is an incredibly gifted student.

“It was very hard at first, I had to leave my home, and leave all my family, but I got used to it,” he said.

Yang said he has spent lots of time from Canton, China, his home. “I have no brothers or sisters, and my mom is a teacher at school, and my father is a businessman,” Yang said.

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“I think the most difficult part is the reading. I have to read a lot of books.”

-Jerry Yang

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His summer was spent at home in China.“It was very good, I traveled around China during the summer,” he said.

In AP Calculus as a sophomore, he has shown off his academic prowess in his favorite subject. “I think it’s interesting solving the problems.” Yang said.

Among the many activities, the ones he is in shows off his personality and taste. “I did the robotics club, and the mathletes competition, and I run Cross Country,” Yang said.

 

Nevertheless the road is not always easy for him, especially since English is not his first language. “I think the most difficult part is the reading. I have to read a lot of books,” Yang said.

Yang noticed right away the difference between China and America, at least in the classroom.

“I think the class in China is pretty hard, especially the math and the science,” he said. “In class here you have a lot of freedom, you can select many different electives. In China we don’t have so many and we have to remember a lot of things.”

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