Feature Article
BEING BOLD. THINKING HIGHER.
Ping poses with classmates at his 2006 MBA graduation from Tsinghua University.
Ping travels to Ann Arbor several times a year to visit his mother.
In March he came to Siena for the first time in many years and spoke
with faculty members Tim Husband (left) and Bob Gordon (right).
And reading and writing in the English language
was not much easier.
“They are building every single day,”Dong said.
“Every day the place changes. The whole country
changes every day.”
“Just finishing the homework was very challenging,”said Dong, recalling the many nights he
ended up sleeping in the college library. “Every
single line (in the book) had a new word. I don’t
want any new word I don’t know to pass without
checking the dictionary. Plus, I was two weeks
late when school already started … I read day and
night. I spent a whole week finishing the introduction and chapter one – and they were already in
chapter four!”
Dong planned to major in business administration
at Siena. Then he switched to accounting, before
finally settling on computer information systems.
“After a year (at Siena), I