christopher ming lee

I didn’t get the Fulbright. Am I disappointed? Yes, but disappointment requires time, and thus, a luxury I can hardly afford. Thus, we move to Plan B.
Art suggested a possible Plan B: apply for graduate study at a Chinese university through a fast-track at Rutgers. I’d pay for my travel, but everything else is covered: [...]

Waiting on the Fulbright drove me slightly insane.
I still don’t have an answer.
I started checking e-mail twice-a-day again, something I haven’t done since I left for Argentina. Futilely hoping word would come from Beijing that I’d been granted the scholarship, that I was off to China next fall.
It got to the point where I was [...]

I feel I have three more essays in me, and I’ll be done with the book - aside from their edits, of course. For these last three pieces, I’m brought back to the depressing realm of first drafts. I wrote earlier about trusting the process, and I’ve forgotten how hard that is when every sentence [...]

I woke up at 6:30 a.m. yesterday, to put some finishing touches on my Fulbright Application before submitting it for a university review. I finished around 9 a.m., then left for a 12-hour work shift. This left plenty of time to contemplate  what I could share to make the process easier (well, maybe not as [...]