ESP Biography



ANNA LIU, Class of 2027




Major: Course 5

College/Employer: MIT

Year of Graduation: 2027

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Past Classes

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Z15992: What Makes Taiwan Taiwan? A Crash Course on Taiwan's History, Culture, and People in Spark 2024 (Mar. 16 - 17, 2024)
Curious about what makes some aspects of Taiwan different from China even though this island is roughly 100 miles away? In this class, I will first go over Taiwan's history from its early days to the KMT to its current political situation. Then, I will discuss interesting aspects of Taiwanese culture from food to people to language (slang, accent, dialect) that are unique to this place and not found in Mainland China. Be prepared to be bombarded by lots of random fun facts!


B15993: Learn Chinese in One Hour! in Spark 2024 (Mar. 16 - 17, 2024)
Do you want to learn how to speak the most widely spoken language in the world? In this class, I will go over some basic phrases as well as some tips on how to pronounce certain sounds correctly. Tones, hanyu pinyin, greetings, phrases, and grammar structures not found in English.


Z15681: What Makes Taiwan Taiwan? A Crash Course on Taiwan's History, Culture, and People in Splash 2023 (Nov. 18 - 19, 2023)
Curious about what makes some aspects of Taiwan different from China even though this island is roughly 100 miles away? In this class, I will first go over Taiwan's history from its early days to the KMT to its current political situation. Then, I will discuss interesting aspects of Taiwanese culture from food to people to language (slang, accent, dialect) that are unique to this place and not found in Mainland China. Be prepared to be bombarded by lots of random fun facts!


B15726: Learn Chinese in One Hour! in Splash 2023 (Nov. 18 - 19, 2023)
Do you want to learn how to speak the most widely spoken language in the world? In this class, I will go over some basic phrases as well as some tips on how to pronounce certain sounds correctly. Tones, hanyu pinyin, greetings, phrases, and grammar structures not found in English.


S15869: Why is CO poisonous, but not O2? Answers from Molecular Orbital Theory in Splash 2023 (Nov. 18 - 19, 2023)
What makes O2 compatible with life but CO poisonous with the change of one atom? We will delve into the molecular structure of a few diatomic molecules through the lens of molecular orbital theory to help us answer this question. Molecular orbital theory is key to a deeper understanding of how our bodies interact with molecules in the world and of higher-level chemistry.