Austin Hua Feng Wang was born on July 21, 1995 without a hyphen or a clue. He was originally supposed to be Austin Hua Wang, but his mother accidentally slipped and dropped her surname onto the birth certificate, as mothers do. This was the source of much strife and consternation in the Wang household, sorry, Feng Wang household, growing up, but little Austin was too busy getting wood-chips dumped on his head by Lindsay from Sunday School to notice. An uneasy detente led to 18 years of going by the wrong name. He finally came to face-to-face with this identity crisis on the first day of college, when to his massive panic he found no student with his name enrolled at Lehigh.

Since then, he’s come to terms with the fact that he actually might not know who he is, and become a functioning, if not contributing member, of the Lehigh community. Major accomplishments include taking freshman English as a senior, accidentally drinking dirt, and jumping off the roof of an off-campus residence without breaking his neck, all while heading up the school’s student-run group. A member of the Delta Chi fraternity here on campus, his hobbies include sleeping during chapter, looking for his golf ball, and dodging calls from his parents. This summer, he looks forward to working in investment banking in New York City at just over the minimum hourly wage.

As a writer, Austin has had difficulty forming and maintaining  coherent arguments over longer works, despite possessing a vocabulary arsenal that got him into Lehigh in spite of a lackluster high school GPA. Known among peers for stylistically complicated but ultimately shallow prose, a high school English teacher once described one of his essays as “bull*** wrapped in pretty gold foil”.

Strengths: billiards, self-mockery, short-game

Weaknesses: deadlines, analyzing subtext, the driver