03-04-2014, 08:12 PM
Ok I know ever since I got here all I have talked about was my depression and my frustration over sex, coming out and making friends.
Well I must confess there is way more to me than that and I actually do have interests and a life outside of my problems with being a young gay neophyte.
The biggest thing of mine that I am passionate about is History. I love history, love studying it, talking about it, gathering insight from it and helping others see the value in those who pursue the study of the past. It is actually my major at college, my proudest moment in me studying this field was an internship I took up with the History Department assisting a former professor of mine who was busy working on her Ph.D dissertation on the role and impact of women in the court of the early Han Dynasty. I translated a lot of documents from Mandarin Chinese into English for her. (I learned how to speak, read and write Mandarin Chinese in my time at college too) The documents I got were already translations though since there is such a great divide in classical Chinese to the modern language that only a real handful of language specialists can translate classical into modern. None of them know English however, that is where I come in to translate their work of a primary document from modern Mandarin into English. It was hard work but for me it all felt so effortless because I loved what I was doing and what I was helping achieve.
I loved it all so much that I have a tendency to ramble about what I did. My former professor of whom I was working for at the time was, at the end of my time interning so impressed by my work and the dedication I put into what I did as a research assistant that she lobbied to get the head of the Department a special commendation for me which I did get, in addition to an honorable mention by the President of our University.
It made me real happy when I achieved that, it is things like that too that convince me that for all the flaws I have I am worth fighting and getting better for.
I have a great interest in Chinese history and I would like my professional concentration to be China in the late 19th century particularly the Tongzhi Restoration.
I have other interest but it would be better to just break things down and come out with this first lol.
So what do you all think about the Derek that is not down in dumps but rather is a guy who has a lot of unconventional passions like this one?
Well I must confess there is way more to me than that and I actually do have interests and a life outside of my problems with being a young gay neophyte.
The biggest thing of mine that I am passionate about is History. I love history, love studying it, talking about it, gathering insight from it and helping others see the value in those who pursue the study of the past. It is actually my major at college, my proudest moment in me studying this field was an internship I took up with the History Department assisting a former professor of mine who was busy working on her Ph.D dissertation on the role and impact of women in the court of the early Han Dynasty. I translated a lot of documents from Mandarin Chinese into English for her. (I learned how to speak, read and write Mandarin Chinese in my time at college too) The documents I got were already translations though since there is such a great divide in classical Chinese to the modern language that only a real handful of language specialists can translate classical into modern. None of them know English however, that is where I come in to translate their work of a primary document from modern Mandarin into English. It was hard work but for me it all felt so effortless because I loved what I was doing and what I was helping achieve.
I loved it all so much that I have a tendency to ramble about what I did. My former professor of whom I was working for at the time was, at the end of my time interning so impressed by my work and the dedication I put into what I did as a research assistant that she lobbied to get the head of the Department a special commendation for me which I did get, in addition to an honorable mention by the President of our University.
It made me real happy when I achieved that, it is things like that too that convince me that for all the flaws I have I am worth fighting and getting better for.
I have a great interest in Chinese history and I would like my professional concentration to be China in the late 19th century particularly the Tongzhi Restoration.
I have other interest but it would be better to just break things down and come out with this first lol.
So what do you all think about the Derek that is not down in dumps but rather is a guy who has a lot of unconventional passions like this one?