Hobbies • Semi-professional table tennis player: I was in the University of Virginia Ping Pong team. Our team placed the second that year. • Quasi-professional singer: I won the Four-School Singing Contest in North Carolina and many first-prizes within schools. I also recorded this and this. Recently I have been studying Piano from my friend Chaofan Chen. • Amateur writer: I have published two books, and another (on English vocabulary) now in progress. • Teaching: Before coming to the U.S. I started a school named Jake’s Academy of American English Studies. • Gomoku: My ranking is sho-dan, and my “Master Shifu” is Na Wei (a.k.a. Daddy of Chinese Gomoku).