I've done something quite rare: I'm an American who attended college in both the US and China . I completed my undergraduate degree in political science at a state university in New York and studied abroad in Wuhan, China, during the summer of 2015. Ten years later, in 2025, I returned to Shijiazhuang, China, while completing my second graduate degree in global health, interning at a medical university. Experiencing Chinese universities at two distinct points in my life, a decade apart, gave me