Dear students (and fellow teammates),
Greetings and a big welcome to all of you! I hope you'll enjoy a fantastic summer at Brown with us this year amidst lush verdant lawns, clear blue skies, and age-old buildings featuring the splendor of Romanesque Revival style architecture. Brown's campus is absolutely gorgeous!
We hope that this year, you'll reap and have as much fun at our summer academy as the students did last year. I can't wait to meet and get to know all of you! To start things off, let me introduce myself. My name is Esther and I am a counselor at Ivy labs. The bulk of my work is in helping students who are applying to colleges in the U.S. I teach, guide, and mentor them prior to and throughout the college applications process. Before this, I worked as a learning consulting specialist and teacher for a private education firm in Singapore. My other work experiences include teaching children with special needs and working as a high school counselor. My background is in psychology, mental health and counseling.
I have a somewhat unique and interesting life experience. I was born in the U.S. I grew up in Hong Kong and Singapore, went to college in Vancouver, Canada, and then came back to the U.S. for my graduate school education. I would love to learn more about you, so please briefly share something about yourself too! I am "pumped" for this summer, looking forward to bonding with all of you 
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See y'all very soon!
Esther Sheu
