Hi,

I’m Maureen Chen. Mandarin is my first language and being fluent in the language has allowed me to enjoy being a Certified Medical Translator. I was born and raised in the sunbathed country of Taiwan (the temperature will rarely dip below Fifty Degrees Fahrenheit). Some might call me a “fob”, but I’d rather think of myself as a cultural mix of both Western and Eastern influences. I have a passion for Hip Hop and Pop music and if you overheard the music that blares from my Beats headphone during my morning commute to school, you would hear the voices of Fetty Wap or Ariana Grande. On the other end of the spectrum of Cultural Influence lies my reliance on Eastern Medicine (think brews of ginseng and goji berry) to treat any and all illnesses that I may succumb to during a turbulent Finals Week.

I am currently attending Baruch for a Third Semester as an intended Digital Marketing Major. Preceding my enrollment at Baruch College, was what I believed at the time to be a very straightforward academic career at Hunter College as a Nursing Major. Turns out that I would make for a horrible vampire, as the sight of even a drop of blood would be unnerving to my spirited pursuit of a career as a Nurse. Subsequently, I transferred to Baruch to pursue my passion for Digital Marketing.

The  author Brene Brown has once written, “Vulnerability sounds like the truth and feels like courage”. For someone such as myself who has experienced difficulty with respect to my relationships, this statement has been a riveting excerpt from her book titled Daring Greatly. I have embraced this self-help book to be insightful and resourceful in aiding my approach to others and how I manage my existing relationships. This book was originally published in Taiwan a few years ago so it may prove to be difficult in procuring an English variant though if you can find a copy, it might just improve the quality of your life.