This document introduces mentors for the API (Asian Pacific Islander) First-Year/Transfer Cohort program at Ohio State University. It provides brief bios for 10 mentors that include their name, year in school, major and minor, student organizations involved in, hobbies, favorite thing about OSU, and life motto or favorite quote. The mentors represent a variety of fields of study and experiences and welcome first-year and transfer students to join the API cohort program meetings held every other Tuesday from 6-7pm in the MCC beginning September 2.

1. First year and transfer students, come and join the….
API (Asian Pacific Islander) First-Year/Transfer Cohort
Every other Tuesday from 6-7pm in the MCC beginning September 2
Meet the Mentors below!
Tom Carlin | Senior (Fall 2015) | Computer Engineering | Minor in Entrepreneurship
Student Organizations: Pilipino Student Association, Vietnamese Student Association, Crosswalk Outreach
Hobbies: Video Games, Reddit, Chess and Pool
Favorite thing about being at OSU: Having so many different people of the same age
Life motto or favorite quote: Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Heidi Liou | Senior | Fashion and Retail Studies
Student organizations: Buckeye Leadership Fellows, Asian American Association, Fashion Production Association, Student
Athlete Advisory Board
Hobbies: Cancer research, startups, wearable technology, calligraphy, photography, traveling East Asia, learning Russian,
fashion blogging
Favorite thing about being at OSU: Going to club meetings to eat food and meet people
Life motto or favorite quote: Work hard and be nice to people.
Tiger Litam | Senior | Biology (Pre-Med) | Minor in Sexuality Studies
Student Organizations: Sigma Phi Beta Fraternity, Pilipino Student Association
Hobbies: Paintballing, Creative Writing, (a lot of) Video Games, Swimming in the Deep End
Favorite thing about being at OSU: Have you realized how much free stuff you’ve gotten yet? Also, the diversity.
Life motto/favorite quote: We’ll figure it out… Eventually.

2. Cong Liu | Graduated Spring 2014 | Finance and Psychology | Minor in Statistics | Transfer Student
Student organizations: Traditional Chinese Music Club
Hobbies: Playing Music, Traveling, Shooting games, Cooking
Favorite thing about being at OSU: Making lots of friends
Life motto or favorite quote: Make the most of life
Jonathon Sun | Senior (Fall 2015) | Computer Information Sciences
Minors in Asian American Studies and Chinese | Transfer Student
Student organizations: BAAM (Asian American Acapella group), Asian American Association
Hobbies: Playing piano, beatboxing, writing music, reading and video gaming.
Favorite thing about OSU: How easy it is to build a community if you can’t find one. Usually you can find a community, you
just have to look in the right places.
Life motto: Shut up, stop complaining and do it, in most circumstances what you are doing should not kill you.
Gayathri Veeraraghavan | Junior | Biochemistry | Minor in Biology
Student organizations: Indian Students Association, Buckeye Mela Committee, Alpha Epsilon Delta: Pre-med club
Hobbies: Playing piano, Volunteering at Nationwide Children’s hospital, singing when I find the time!
Favorite thing about OSU: No matter what, amongst the 60,000 people on campus you will always be able to find your own
quirky, special group of people that seem to match up with your own interests. OSU is such a diverse community and it really
is true that within such a big university, one seems to make it small for themseelf by finding their interests.
Life Motto: Just do it. (It’s very cliché but very true to who I am and how I work)
Tower Zhou | Sophomore | Finance and Marketing | Minor in Korean
Student Organizations: Undergraduate Student Government, Office of International Affairs, Pengyou Project, Young
Skywaver Scholar Community, International Student Career-Building Association, International Friendships
Hobbies: Singing jazz, writing poems and lyrics, learning new languages, cooking, riding bicycles, playing table tennis and
traveling around the world.
Favorite thing about being at OSU: OSU has a huge campus and processes over a thousand of different student orgs.
Life Motto: By walking out of your comfort zone, you can feel more comfortable.