UC Irvine is a well-known Asian-dominated community, the ethnicity making up 50 percent of the school’s overall undergraduate student population. While there are numerous other cultures and ethnic groups on campus, many are not represented as fully as that of the Asian community. Other races and ethnicities individually make up less than 22 percent of UCI’s undergraduate population.
I’ve always known that kids are smarter than they seem. From my experience with kids — whether it was taking care of my family members’ babies, watching friends’ siblings grow up, or tutoring children at my job — it was always easy to see that they had some hidden knowledge about the world.
Steve Jobs, the former co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. and Pixar Animation Studios, is considered one of the most successful individuals of his lifetime. Born from an unwed graduate student, put up for adoption and a dropout of Reed College after just one semester, Jobs at 21 — the age he had co-founded Apple — had no idea that he would someday lead one of the most flourishing companies in the world.
Does the term “arranged marriage” have such barbaric and primitive implications that one can only meet it with horrified faces and noises of protest upon mentioning it? It must, because that’s the reaction I get every time.
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