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Submission Number: 153
Submission ID: 791
Submission UUID: 33a70035-82eb-4407-8eac-760dedffdcab
Created: Thu, 03/17/2022 - 09:39
Completed: Thu, 03/17/2022 - 09:39
Changed: Sat, 05/10/2025 - 03:23
Remote IP address: 174.28.49.26
Submitted by:Anonymous
Language: English
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Mallory
Klem
She, her
Albuquerque
NM
United States
87111
Biomedical engineering
English 5, Chinese 2, Spanish 2, French 1
I have been very fortunate that my family likes to travel. I have been to France, Italy, Greece, Taiwan, and China. I have loved all these travels. The experiences of the different cultures, architecture, art, cuisine and people are amazing. Every time my family goes somewhere, we make an effort to learn the language of that country so we’re not completely clueless. You have to set aside the feeling that you are looking foolish and just go for it.
While I have enjoyed all my travels, China was probably the most personal. I was adopted from China when I was nearly two. When I was 13, my family went back to China to see some major highlights like the Great Wall and Terra Cotta Soldiers as well as visit the orphanage where I lived. I’ll be honest, I had lots of anxiety about this trip. Visiting my orphanage turned out to be the highlight of the trip. I was treated like a long-lost daughter. The orphanage director spent the day with us. A large lunch was specially prepared, and the director invited us to stay on for dinner. We picked vegetables from the orphanage garden and the director showed me how to cut a cucumber with a giant cleaver. That was slightly terrifying! The best part of this visit was when the director read from her personal notebooks about me. The director had kept notes on all the children under her care. Then, she gave my mom the flowered jacket I had been found in and a picture that was taken of me the day I was found. These pieces of my past are precious to me: they connect me to my homeland.
As you might imagine, getting to China is hard so my family wanted to make the most of it. The last week of the trip we went to Yunnan Province. We wanted to go somewhere off the beaten path. Most of China’s minority peoples live in Yunnan. We had the most amazing guide, Apple, who took us to local markets to try things like yak butter tea (yum!), blood sausage that wasn’t refrigerated (not yum!), durian pizza (an acquired taste) and rose syrup cheese on a stick. We had noodles at a restaurant where dogs roamed around cleaning the floor. She took us hiking in the countryside and asked a family she knew if they could share lunch with us. We had spicy potatoes (my favorite) and sliced pork from the pig they had recently butchered. The family’s kitchen was open air with these giant woks over wood burning grills. Also local to this area were these pepper corns that made your mouth numb.
Our last trip was this past December to Greece. COVID definitely made the trip a challenge. Our flights were canceled three or four times. Last minute testing requirements popped up. Our luggage got lost. My mom’s luggage never got found. We still had a great time. The history was phenomenal. The food was insane. I had the best gyro of my life. I tried braised rooster. Best of all, the people were incredibly nice.
While I have enjoyed all my travels, China was probably the most personal. I was adopted from China when I was nearly two. When I was 13, my family went back to China to see some major highlights like the Great Wall and Terra Cotta Soldiers as well as visit the orphanage where I lived. I’ll be honest, I had lots of anxiety about this trip. Visiting my orphanage turned out to be the highlight of the trip. I was treated like a long-lost daughter. The orphanage director spent the day with us. A large lunch was specially prepared, and the director invited us to stay on for dinner. We picked vegetables from the orphanage garden and the director showed me how to cut a cucumber with a giant cleaver. That was slightly terrifying! The best part of this visit was when the director read from her personal notebooks about me. The director had kept notes on all the children under her care. Then, she gave my mom the flowered jacket I had been found in and a picture that was taken of me the day I was found. These pieces of my past are precious to me: they connect me to my homeland.
As you might imagine, getting to China is hard so my family wanted to make the most of it. The last week of the trip we went to Yunnan Province. We wanted to go somewhere off the beaten path. Most of China’s minority peoples live in Yunnan. We had the most amazing guide, Apple, who took us to local markets to try things like yak butter tea (yum!), blood sausage that wasn’t refrigerated (not yum!), durian pizza (an acquired taste) and rose syrup cheese on a stick. We had noodles at a restaurant where dogs roamed around cleaning the floor. She took us hiking in the countryside and asked a family she knew if they could share lunch with us. We had spicy potatoes (my favorite) and sliced pork from the pig they had recently butchered. The family’s kitchen was open air with these giant woks over wood burning grills. Also local to this area were these pepper corns that made your mouth numb.
Our last trip was this past December to Greece. COVID definitely made the trip a challenge. Our flights were canceled three or four times. Last minute testing requirements popped up. Our luggage got lost. My mom’s luggage never got found. We still had a great time. The history was phenomenal. The food was insane. I had the best gyro of my life. I tried braised rooster. Best of all, the people were incredibly nice.
I hope the person down hall likes a good laugh: they like The Office and the first three seasons of Modern Family as much as I do. I hope the person down the hall loves animals: they think their dog or cat is a voting member of the family and most of the pictures on their phone are of said dog or cat. I hope the person down the hall is compassionate: they see the suffering of others and offer what they can to help, even just a smile or a silent prayer. I hope the person down the hall thinks it is best to give others the benefit of the doubt: I believe most people don’t mean to be annoying, and I hope the person down the hall thinks so too. Lastly, I hope the person down the hall thinks engineering is challenging and worth the effort: being around people who give their all, encourages me to give my all.
Global Engineering tackles the world’s hardest problems and creates innovative solutions with teamwork. While I was in high school, I participated in science fair every year until COVID. My science fair projects always focused on energy and sustainability. I built and analyzed an ionic flow cooling device for cooling of computers in energy limited communities. I built a Stirling engine, connected it to a compost pile, harvested energy, and developed a design to scale the approach to meet larger energy needs. I built a night sky cooling “box”, studied the performance, and developed potential applications for cooling homes in communities not connected to energy grids.
CU Boulder is a big school. I could easily spend fours years at CU and have an impersonal experience. I do not want that. I want to be part of a community at CU that I can enrich and that can support and encourage me.
During COVID, I learned what teamwork and collaboration really mean. I fostered dogs with medical needs and behavioral issues. With medical fostering, I was responsible for another being’s health and welfare. It was intimidating yet exhilarating. However, fostering the pups with behavioral issues was the most challenging. Dogs with fear issues were the hardest, yet my favorite, to foster. We have all heard the phrase, “it takes a village”. Helping a dog with severe fear issues truly does. Kong was a dog who had been abused. He was afraid of everything, and especially afraid of men. I could not have helped Kong without the constant support and collaboration of the behavioral team at the shelter. We had daily virtual meetings. Despite our best efforts, though, we were failing. Kong needed more. The shelter staff contacted behavioral specialists at other shelters around the country for suggestions. Everyone was Googling for ideas. Working with this team was inspiring. We had a common goal: save Kong. We did. He is still not terribly comfortable with men, but he has a process he can now follow to make new friends. The woman who adopted him loves him and supports him completely in life’s challenges.
Before fostering, I had worked on teams for school projects. There, the team effort and collaboration meant everyone doing their own part and then merging the work at the end. The goal was a grade, nothing more. We cheated ourselves. I look forward to being a part of CU’s Global Engineering RAP community where everyone’s talents, knowledge and ideas are shared and melded. I know the result can be amazing.
CU Boulder is a big school. I could easily spend fours years at CU and have an impersonal experience. I do not want that. I want to be part of a community at CU that I can enrich and that can support and encourage me.
During COVID, I learned what teamwork and collaboration really mean. I fostered dogs with medical needs and behavioral issues. With medical fostering, I was responsible for another being’s health and welfare. It was intimidating yet exhilarating. However, fostering the pups with behavioral issues was the most challenging. Dogs with fear issues were the hardest, yet my favorite, to foster. We have all heard the phrase, “it takes a village”. Helping a dog with severe fear issues truly does. Kong was a dog who had been abused. He was afraid of everything, and especially afraid of men. I could not have helped Kong without the constant support and collaboration of the behavioral team at the shelter. We had daily virtual meetings. Despite our best efforts, though, we were failing. Kong needed more. The shelter staff contacted behavioral specialists at other shelters around the country for suggestions. Everyone was Googling for ideas. Working with this team was inspiring. We had a common goal: save Kong. We did. He is still not terribly comfortable with men, but he has a process he can now follow to make new friends. The woman who adopted him loves him and supports him completely in life’s challenges.
Before fostering, I had worked on teams for school projects. There, the team effort and collaboration meant everyone doing their own part and then merging the work at the end. The goal was a grade, nothing more. We cheated ourselves. I look forward to being a part of CU’s Global Engineering RAP community where everyone’s talents, knowledge and ideas are shared and melded. I know the result can be amazing.
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