Pomona
Summer of 2018 is a variate time for me. This is my first time ever traveling alone. I've applied an exchange program for one semester to Cal Poly, Pomona. There's excite, concern, and a tipsy of fear for the unknown future.
A Trip
that leads you to Know
Yourself.
at Cal Poly, Pomona.
" You never get to master something, until seeing both sides of it. "
EXCHANGING INFO :
Duration : 2018/08/21~12/16
My Student ID, I was drunk the other night...
HOW EVERYTHING
BEGAN
To apply the exchange program,
you'll have to prepare everything (resume, a higher GPA for the recent semester, and TOEIC) a year before hand. Therefore, I applied my third year Fall exchange during my second year winter break. It's a period when most of my classmates just started preparing for their English Competency certification. In result, I'm the ONLY student that applied and got accepted to the program.
While everyone has their own piece of mind of what and why they want to study abroad, mine has nothing to do with american dream anymore. I used to dream of studying abroad, that was high school and it always brought my family into conflict and quarrel. I got tired of my day to day routine in Taiwan and I wanted to learn something new.
Weekends' Explore
Disney, Laguna Beach... and more!
I've made use of every weekends (usually Sunday) for exploring around LA.
With the accompany of two exchange students form Germany: Bianca and Stefanie, and another exchange student from Korea: Yujin. We take turns polling where we should go travel around California.
Click "See more" below to check out the places we've been!
SO MUCH LEARNED
WHAT WE DO
On the other hand,
I realized despite some of the students are lost here too, but the strategy of how school manages to educate students are way more constructive and built up comparing to my school back home.
Here, they have you know that designing is a process, not a solution that is accurate...
WHAT IS YOUR FAV MOMENT IN THIS PROJECT?
There are so much learned working on projects here that I can't just write them all down here. The most important lesson to take away with me must be the method to work on design. Being able to judge your own work. Learn to "taste" it. What are the good moments and what are the ones you would like to take on along with you.
Field Trips
California Architecture
With Pr. Hofu's highly recommendation,
exchange students are encouraged to take the class "California Architecture" which not only introduces upon the architecture history of Cal but also, more importantly take us on field trips once every two~ three weeks! Click below to check out what happened each trip.
Self Explores
Mexico/ Paris/ Milan/ Munich
After semester at Cal Poly, Pomona ending at Dec. 15th,
I stayed at Santa Ana, traveled around LA and depart the States on Dec. 30th arriving Paris, France at Dec. 31th to meet up with Alex Yin.
Each staying for five days, I move on to Munich to meet up with Bianca on Jan. 12th. Ending my whole trip on Jan 15th.
