brainstorm for my final project

In this class, we’ve done several projects around the topic of identity. During the process of re-discovering myself, I found many interesting aspects about myself and unfamiliar personalities that I never thought of. So, I think this final project should be a good opportunity to summarize what kind of person I really am, and I will expand the narrow opinion from myself to include what others think of me. But do I really know what others think of me? Not necessarily. So ultimately the last images that I expect what others portrait me are still the reflections of me discovering and exploring myself.

I want to do it in an easy and progressive way. It’s going to be like I tell a story about myself, but only from other people’s mouths. But still, as I said, those sayings from others’ opinions about me will always represent what I recognize myself to be. I think talking from an irrelative person’s point of view will wipe off some of my stereotypes to a certain level.

The first identity I will describe myself is a business student. Many freshmen are registering classes for next quarter recently and the options of classes triggered us many conversations and exchanges of opinions about what we really want to do and what we should do. I listened and made my stance; I thought I had a clear mind of my choice that studying business is what I want and what I’m obligated to do, but their confusion inevitably influences my prospects for myself. So in the first image, I want to show what others think of business student and what I think of myself as a business major student.

The second identity, though many try to avoid talking about, is an international student, a Chinese international student surviving in an American college. I feel really uncomfortable talking about it as many of my Chinese friends because we’ve heard or personally experienced the slight discrimination or stereotypes. There’s a famous joke about the Asian student: an A- for an Asian student means an F. As an Asian, I know that’s not true and we didn’t mean it to happen. But these stereotypes immensely impact our emotions, so sometimes we even believe that it is the truth—if we don’t get an A, that means hell. But deep in my heart, I know that’s not true and it’s not fair. As a matter of studying, there shouldn’t be two evaluation criteria against different races. So, in my second picture, I want to show what others hold opinions about Asian students and what myself think of Asian students.

In my last picture, I only want to picture myself from my own and intuitive opinion---what I was like, what I want myself to become and contrasting them with where I am at present. And the last picture should be able to show my progress as I grow up, and where I go from to the outlook I set for myself. It is not an end of recognizing myself as the class ends, but It should be the start of everything.