December 9, 2020
Thao Trinh
When an international student arrives on campus, she is a bundle of emotions – including a big willingness to try hard and give it her best shot, recalls computer science major Thao Trinh, who arrived as a first-year student from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in 2017 wanting to study white-hat hacking.
Her English and communication skills were shaky back then, the now-confident Trinh acknowledges, but she says she need not have worried – the campus community came through for her with solid support. “A lot of people here helped me to make it,” she says. “I have come a really long way.”