…I want to travel everywhere. My name is Holly Kiang, I was born in Manhattan, and raised in Forest Hills, Queens. Both my parents are from Hong Kong, arriving when they were eight and sixteen. Having 
arrived in the United States when they were young, my parents are quite Americanized, as am I. Their siblings and parents have immigrated as well, making celebrations more traditional than I would have probably ever experienced. My paternal grandmother recently became an American citizen and will speak English on occasion but reprimands me for not remembering more Chinese.
I am making an ad hoc major in Environmental Science, Economics, and Political Science and I hope to minor in International Business and Latin American and Caribbean Studies (along with the New York Studies minor). I plan to attend graduate school, but I want to join the Peace Corps and see the world. There are so many natural wonders to see and think about how humans interact with this natural world; I want to explore it as much as I can.
Having commuted to Manhattan for high school and various activities, I want to experience something different and new. At heart I’ll always be a city girl because there’s always something to do and something unique and interesting to explore, but there are just some things the city can’t offer. My main goal for the future is to travel, and become a citizen of the world.
