Lucy Song

2015

Placement:

The Wilson Center

Major:

History; Public Policy

Lucy Song is a third-year history major and public policy minor. She is particularly interested in East Asian history, diplomacy, and the workings of supranational organizations that facilitate more effective international cooperation. Lucy is also the Senior California Editor of the Berkeley Political Review. Through UCDC, the semester-long UC Washington program, she hopes to intern at a think tank and learn about how academic research can be applied to solve contemporary social and political challenges. She would like to thank the Matsui Center so much for providing her with such an amazing opportunity!

Blog

Which Coast is Your Coast? A Comparison between NorCal and DC

Lucy Song, Matsui Washington Fellows

11/18/2015

In the past few months, a lot of my peers at the UCDC program and myself included have been debating between staying in the Bay Area after graduation, soaking under the glorious year-around sun and eating 99-cent avocados, or moving to the East Coast, experiencing actual seasons and living a more...

DC Musings

Lucy Song, Matsui Washington Fellows

10/20/2015

I cannot believe that an entire month has passed since my last blog. Time sure flies by quickly around here! Many exciting things have happened since the end of September, and I am happy to say that I am really starting to like this city. Sometimes (and at the risk of being slightly creepy), as I...

Life in the Fast Lane

Lucy Song, Matsui Washington Fellows

09/22/2015

To be honest, when I first landed at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, I really did not have a clear idea of or much expectation about how my semester in D.C. would unfold--after all, I have never been to America's national capital or seen much of the East Coast at all. But fast...