Tags: College

This story is about all the steps Amber took to get where she is today. "I never thought I would/could go to college," Amber writes. "It is my biggest achievement... and telling this story helped me own my education and my experiences more."

Through this story, Lucky shares his process of resenting the pressures that his parents put on him in high school to do well academically, leaving his home to get away from that pressure, and then realizing his strong desire to make his mother proud of everything that he has accomplished during his successful college career.

There are a lot of great things about college life, but the food isn't really one of them. Wanda remembers her grandmother's cooking and tells the story of how the Chinese tradition of preparing family meals has been passed down from her grandmother to her mother and 8 aunts and continues on through her.

Born and raised on a fishing boat in China, Cybele tells the story of what it was like to live and study on the land, overcome obstacles of a new language, new independence and finally come full circle to an internship in Hong Kong near the sea.