Anjana Saravanan

Anjana Saravanan

UC Berkeley 2023.
Immigration & opportunity

Immigration & opportunity

I immigrated to the United States from Japan when I was 5 years old and moved to New Jersey with my parents and my twin brother. At that age, the U.S held the same appeal to me as the New World held for prospective immigrants of long ago: it was a place of adventure...

Immigration & opportunity

Opinion: The importance of passion in this generation

In an age where my peers make life decisions on the basis of pressure from parents and friends, passion is all but nonexistent. “Love” towards an activity or pastime means nothing. What’s more important these days is how said activity “looks on college applications”....