Do you value your successes or failures more? Why?

“Failures, because for everything, I’m a perfectionist. So, nothing is perfectly successful to me so I always focus on failures and that helps me, like, that motivates me to improve and be better.”

Is there something that you feel you were meant to do or be?

“I see myself as an artist, but I think I’m more than just that. I guess I just want to be me, you know? As an artist, I want to express myself and I just want to have a say… and not always have to follow what other people want.”

What drives you to do better at something?

“Those who are against me. It makes me want to prove myself, like, I can do it.”

What do you want most out of life?

“I just want to be me, you know? I don’t care where I end up, I just want to be the self that I recognize. I don’t want to change too drastically.”

Do you consider yourself the hero or the villain in your story?

“To my sister I think I might be a villain, but to myself I’m the hero. I think other people might say I’m pretty self-centered because I always [try to do] what I think is right, and I will fight for it”

When did you last push the boundaries of your comfort zone?

“I feel like I push my comfort zone everyday. Coming to the United States is a huge [time I pushed my comfort zone]. It took me a year [to adapt]; I spent my freshman year in lonely despair. It was a totally different me, but I change a lot over the years. I think there’s no way for me to adapt totally into the United States, but learning new things is always fun.”

What have you given up on?

“I used to think that I had to meet… other people’s expectations, but in the future, it will be my life and it’s not about… other people [thinking] I need to be this way or that I have to be this way, it just doesn’t have to influence me that much.”

What impact do you want to leave on the world?

“I don’t feel like I have the power to change this world. I don’t see myself doing it, but I see this generation doing it [together]. When [I] see people corrupt in their position, I just hope that, when I get into the real world, I don’t end up like that. When [I] see people who are not doing the right thing, the only way to really change [it] is when, you get into the same position, you don’t do the thing you once saw as wrong and I think that’s the power everyone has to make the world a better place, really.