Me, myself and I

My name is Qianli “James” and I’m currently studying in the school of management. I’m from China and this is my second school year in the United States.

I am easy-going but sometimes stressful, open-minded but usually stubborn and adventurous but always precautious. I love to learn and explore new things, which partly leads to my study abroad experience in Binghamton. I can get used to a new environment easily but I also like to change my surroundings constantly. Also, I am open to everything. This contributes to my broad knowledge but also means that I have few things that I am specialized at.

I love to do community service projects. I found my interest into community service as early as high school. But I think I started to really take it seriously in my first semester in Binghamton University. I took one service-learning course in my first semester and that was when I realized how passionate I was about community service. I remembered when I first read the assignment and I got so scared: twenty hours commitment of community was required! However, after I started to do different kinds of service project, I found it was not hard at all. During all these different sort of projects, such as Rely for Life aids walk, group fundraising by apple-pie making and even house construction, I gained a variety of different perspectives from people I met, which also helped me get to know the surrounding community. At the end of the semester I did much more than the required hours. What was more, I found my passion about service. I never look at myself using the same way I did before and I realized my life goal, that is, to make a difference. I still keep up doing service on and off campus after the course. For the past semester, I’ve been involved with five different clubs and doing executive boards for most of them. My calendar is always full of events and I like it that way: it reminds me that I am using every minute of my life doing something meaningful and I am making a difference.

I hope I can learn as much as I can about the global media. The reason I took this course is because that I am very interested in global studies. I’ve already had three “G”, global independence credits and I am actually thinking of doing a minor in this field. Thanks to my open-minded personality, my passion in travelling and my study abroad experience, I am very curious about globalization, a forceful power that is changing every country, every citizen in the world. Therefore I cannot overlook media, which served as one of the most important bridge in globalization. That is why I took this course.