Darren's 340 Blog

  Undergraduate Student Consultant Most people from Marshall don’t know what an undergraduate student consultant is. If I didn’t have my East Asian Languages and Cultures double major, I probably wouldn’t have known about it either. I first learned about this job from my Dornsife advisor and was an undergraduate student consultant for three semesters. If the pandemic didn’t exist, I would be looking forward to matching with a potential graduate student on campus right now. An undergraduate student consultant, or uSC for short, works with one or more ITAs(international teaching assistants). These ITAs are international graduate students who know enough English to communicate information about their field, but not enough to teach as a proper teaching assistant yet. Most of these ITAs don’t have anyone to speak English with outside of their classes. Even within their classes, they usually speak their native languages with other students from their country. My job is to help the ITAs b...

I was born and raised in San Francisco and have been here for pretty much my entire life. I currently do not have any immediate future plans but after the pandemic is over I hope to travel to Europe and Korea. In terms of my career goals, I hope to work for a business, specifically one that would make use of my familiarity of foreign languages. If that does not work out, being a teacher or tutor seems like something I would be interested in. To get there, I should look into international business and see what kinds of companies I would like to work for. I should also try to meet people who are currently in international business and network with them. If not, I might look into studying education to be a teacher. The biggest way I am like my parents is that I speak their language. Even though I was born in San Francisco, I can converse perfectly in the dialect of Cantonese that my mom uses. Another way I am like them is that I prefer to have things neat and organized. On the other hand,...