Every session or so, we get new chinese staff volunteers who help out in the session and do basic routine menial tasks like making copies, arranging chairs, passing out papers stuff like that. We call them Administrative Assistants or AA's because Non-Paid Overworked Under-appreciated Chinese Staff doesn't all quite fit on the name tag. Most of the time they are former students themselves who've come back to help. We have a new one this session. Her name is Summer. Most of our AA's have at least a certificate, most have a degree. Summer brings a little more than that to the table.
She has...(and try to keep up)
...a Masters Degree in International Politics from Oxford University (yeah, that Oxford)
...a Masters Degree in International Economics and Finance from Warwick University.
...a PhD candidate in World History.
...undergrad work at a top university in China.
...an internship at Goldman Sachs.
...and she's only 22.
That sound we heard when she introduced herself was everyone's egos slowly deflating.
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