Yilin Wang | Art/Neuroscience

I actually forgot to take pictures during interview, but I do have two responses from Mrs. Fisher that I really want to share. Neither of these two responses were recorded by the audio copy but I feel like they were even more important.

For the difficulty/sacrifice question, Mrs. Fisher found it was really hard to organize her language during the interview and felt more comfortable to answer after the interview when I turn off the audio recorder. I tried my best to summary her response.

What is the greatest difficulty you have faced over the course of your career?What was the sacrifices you made?

Mrs. Fisher used to be a full time professor in a university, which she enjoyed a lot. As her personal life changed, she could not work as a full time professor anymore and kept being a part-time professor till now. However, she refused to call it a sacrifice nor to be regret for this decision. For her, this decision was a shift of her career, a shift of her life.

When I finished the interview and was about to live, I expressed my admiration of Mrs. Fisher’s pursuit of her career. What she responded to me was even more important than what I got during the interview. She said, piano was not a talent or expertise she had, but a lifelong passion that was born inside her. She believed if there was only one take-home information I could have from EC interview, it should be that for each master of each field, the lifelong passion of his or her expertise is the only thing that keeps him or her going this far.