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AAJA convention

AAJA
August 10-16, 2003
San Diego, CA

Vincent Hsia was a reporter at the AAJA project in San Diego. He was an intern at Morning Edition last summer, but even before that, he filed commentaries for the program from San Diego.

Commentary #1
Vincent filed this for the program of January 2001. Vincent writes about the cultural difference between "American-Born Chinese" or the "ABC's" and "F-O-B's"...those who are "Fresh-Off-the-Boat."

Commentary #2
Vincent writes about being a "foreign student" in November 2002... two months after the terrorist attacks of September 11th.

Commentary #3
In this commentary from May of 2001, Vincent, who ended up at San Diego State University, talks about how he dealt with receiving college rejection letters.