Hi everyone! :)

My name is Yinglin Chen. I am from Brooklyn. My intended major is international business.

In my free time, I like to experiment with arts and crafts projects such as crocheting and felting. However, I had to put those hobbies aside due to my busy school and work schedules in high school. When I wanted to restart crocheting again, I soon gave up because the “magic circle” was not going well. As a perfectionist, I reassembled it multiple times, and eventually gave up because I was too frustrated. Here are some of my projects before I gave up: 

I also enjoy baking a lot. Baking is very therapeutic for me, and it calms me down from anxiety and stress. I mainly bake cakes because cakes are just so fun to make and delicious. I have also experimented with bread before, but I still prefer cakes better. Here are some of the things I have baked:

Over the summer, I worked for a nonprofit organization, and I got to see my community in a perspective that I have never seen before. It made me realize that a lot of immigrants face language barriers and social injustices in our community, and we can help them by simply translating for them and advocating for changes. I also participated in multiple cleanup events around my neighborhood. That experience definitely made me more determined to become someone that can give back to their community and help those in need.

Excited to get to know everyone!