MYLIFE
I’m Tim Xu, an Economics student at Yale University. At Yale, I was president of the Chinese American Students Association. I also played in the Yale Concert Band and Davenport Pops Orchestra, and spend my spare time reading, creating websites, and hanging out with my friends. I also work as a Student Tech with the Yale Student Technology Collaborative.
As for my leisurely pursuits, I am a dabbler. My hobbies are varied, yet they all have one thread in common: they are creative enterprises. I play music, I write, I design–I create. I am happiest when I am given a shapeless entity to sculpt as I see fit.
I’m also an avid technophile. The new and latest gadgets excite me, especially if created by Apple. I play FIFA on my XBOX a bit too much, but I’m partial to RPGs. At the end of the day, I generally play anything that’s fun to play.
In terms of sports, I love soccer. I support Liverpool FC and the US Men’s National Team, but I’ll watch any soccer match. I’m always taken aback by the beauty of fluid play, something that’s fundamentally missing from many other sports. I still do keep up with my other teams, though, including the NY Giants and the NY Mets.
Politically, I swing to the left. I support a woman’s right to choose, stem cell research, welfare, and alternative energy. Barack Obama is my President, and I hope he remains that way until January of 2017.
I am an idealist who believes in the goodness of people. An intellectual who believes in the power of knowledge. A dreamer who believes in a better tomorrow. A thinker who believes that logic rules over chaos. An artist who believes that creating is better than destroying.
