about me

Hello and thanks for visiting my first attempt at a webpage. I'm Kim-Xuan Nguyen, recently graduated from Williams College with a major in biology. As you will see below, my major interests are animals, art/music and plants.

I am now attending UC Davis, the next step towards my long time dream of becoming a veterinarian. Besides working summers in a veterinary clinic, I have also been volunteering since tenth grade at the Friends of Animals Foundation, a no-kill animal shelter in my hometown of Los Angeles.

My artistic interests encompass both the performing and visual arts. My primary instrument is piano; I enjoy accompanying others as well as performing solo. Although I mostly play classical music, I have recently begun playing jazz on both the piano and flute. Accordingly, I play flute in a small jazz band as well as in a baroque trio. Click here for some photos of the jazz band and some of my fellow band members.

In terms of visual art, I love drawing, painting and generally creating things, and I would like to write and illustrate children's books should the veterinary profession leave me with any spare time. I also fear that I am a incorrigeably crafty person; I spend my time knitting, tatting, modeling FIMO and wax, dyeing eggs, folding origami, making bobbin lace, doing cross-stitch and many other time-consuming activities.

I studied lateral root development in Arabidopsis for my senior thesis, but my interest in plants extends far beyond research. I simply like them a lot, and if I didn't want to be a veterinarian, I would want to be a botanist/ecologist or landscape architect. At any rate, I like painting them and taking pictures of them and I am even working on a children's book about my favorite flower, the columbine.

Finally, family and friends. Yup, believe it or not, I've got them, and if they were camera-shy before, wait 'til they see what I can do with them in the computer!
On a side note, I have recently become interested in photography, so here are some unaltered photographs.

E-mail me at knguyen@wso.williams.edu
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	I am now attending UC Davis, the next step towards my long time dream of becoming a veterinarian. Besides working summers in a veterinary clinic, I have also been volunteering since tenth grade at the Friends of Animals Foundation, a no-kill animal shelter in my hometown of Los Angeles.
	My artistic interests encompass both the performing and visual arts. My primary instrument is piano; I enjoy accompanying others as well as performing solo. Although I mostly play classical music, I have recently begun playing jazz on both the piano and flute. Accordingly, I play flute in a small jazz band as well as in a baroque trio. Click here for some photos of the jazz band and some of my fellow band members. In terms of visual art, I love drawing, painting and generally creating things, and I would like to write and illustrate children's books should the veterinary profession leave me with any spare time. I also fear that I am a incorrigeably crafty person; I spend my time knitting, tatting, modeling FIMO and wax, dyeing eggs, folding origami, making bobbin lace, doing cross-stitch and many other time-consuming activities.
	I studied lateral root development in Arabidopsis for my senior thesis, but my interest in plants extends far beyond research. I simply like them a lot, and if I didn't want to be a veterinarian, I would want to be a botanist/ecologist or landscape architect. At any rate, I like painting them and taking pictures of them and I am even working on a children's book about my favorite flower, the columbine.
	Finally, family and friends. Yup, believe it or not, I've got them, and if they were camera-shy before, wait 'til they see what I can do with them in the computer! On a side note, I have recently become interested in photography, so here are some unaltered photographs.