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I struggled with anxiety during my freshman and sophomore years of high school, which inspired me to take AP Psychology and Post AP Psychology during my junior and senior years. Additionally, I wrote an essay about the stigmatization of mental health ailments in the Asian American society (a topic I am very passionate about), which won the 2016 Asian American Youth Scholarship. As a psychology major, I would like to focus on child development, because mental health-related issues are often rooted in our childhood. Additionally, I want to partake in the effort to destigmatize mental ailments, because I understand how difficult it is to live with a mental illness in a society that is very critical of it, and I want to do my best to make sure no one struggles in silence or feel ashamed. I love 90’s rock and cartoons, I play the guitar, and I am interested in learning meditation