Charles H. Lee

COL ’14
Age: 21
Hometown: San Diego, Calif., and Asheville, N.C.
Majors: anthropology and French

What do you do?
I read a lot. I go on a lot of walks to places. On Saturdays I choose a place that’s really far away and I walk there. I’m translating a collection of short stories from French to English. I also work in the Kennedy RHO. 

What do you find most frustrating about Georgetown?
The fact that there is a dominant culture that is very dominant, and if you’re not a part of it, you’ll never be a part of it and it’s made clear to you at every intersection of life that you’re not a part of it.

What do you like most about Georgetown? 
I like that there is an international slant on everything. 

What do you hope Georgetown will help you accomplish?
Well, it’s a bit late, but I do think my time at Georgetown opened my eyes to a lot of things I was interested in and helped me hone my goals and make them concrete, like there’s a lot of intersections in my interests that seemed sporadic and spread out before.

Do you feel you fit in at Georgetown?
I feel like at one point I certainly did. Now I don’t, but I don’t think that’s a bad thing and that’s a lot of my own volition not to.

What’s your greatest fear?
Not living up to my potential. 

What would you change about yourself? 
I wish I were more proactive just in general in every aspect of my life. I wish I took more initiative. 

What’s the biggest change you’ve consciously made in your life and why?
Coming to terms with my wrist, which doesn’t work, and learning to embrace it as part of me. 

What gets you out of bed in the morning?
The future, prospects of the future, and I feel excited about what’s coming next, and I know I have to finish what I’m doing now in order to do that.

Interview by Braden McDonald