Hello, my name is Liliana Lawrence, I have been an Economics Instructor at Bellevue College since 2009. I call Bellevue-Redmond-Kirkland my home and stomping ground, as I reside at the corner, tangent point of these three towns. Originally I was born in the island of Java, one island in a string of archipelago of islands in the middle of the equator in the Pacific, and my parents are of Singapore-descent father and Indonesian mother.<\/p>\n
After I finished master\u2019s degree in Singapore, and a couple of years of working experience doing economic and business research with McKinsey & Company, I moved to New York in 1999 to work for the United Nations Headquarters (in the field of Economic Development); two years later, I decided to do a further study on Ph.D. in Economics in New York City.<\/p>\n
I started teaching in 2003 at Brooklyn College in New York while I was studying there. When I finished my study, Empire State College in Staten Island, New York, offered me a position, but the Call of the West felt stronger, and after almost 10 years in New York City, I felt the need for open space and greenery, so here I am at the East side of Seattle.<\/p>\n
While I am not teaching or preparing classes, before or after, I do enjoy a bit of gardening on my small patch, I also enjoy communing with nature on my daily walks in the neighborhood parks, experimenting on cooking (my most recent acquisition is a pressure cooker that I tried on making curry, yum!), and I also love reading, movies, or PBS documentaries, preferably historical-based drama or natural world programs. When time and money allowed, I\u2019d love traveling, getting to know different cultures, and people, and places. Three most memorable trips I have done are: the road trip from Chicago to Seattle (after teaching one year at Lake Forest College in Illinois, I sold all my worldly belongings and packed only what\u2019s most important that could fit into my little sedan; it\u2019s memorable because there was just me and the car, the big sky and the road ahead); the second is when I took one whole month backpacking trip to Europe in the 90s, I gained a lot of experiences as I went through places (it\u2019s memorable as I spent all my saved money on that trip, but in terms of \u201cmarginal utility per dollar\u201d spent, it was well-spent); and the third is a trip to Bangkok where I did parasailing at the Pattaya beach (it\u2019s memorable, because I am afraid of heights!).<\/p>\n
What gives me pleasure most about teaching is that I get to be involved in building dreams. It might not yield the tangible output right away, but once in a while, a former student would send me news after asking me for recommendation letter. One that I recall, Viktoriya who went to Columbia U for a master\u2019s degree now works for a big bank in New York. Another one, Elias, switched from Biology major into Business after taking my class, and got into Berkeley. There is nothing more satisfying for a teacher to hear success stories from former students.<\/p>\n
My teaching style in class is a combination of lecture with in-class exercises, weekly reviews through quizzes or homework, and finally exams. For online classes, I use weekly essays\/discussions (in place of the class sessions), as well as the weekly homework or quiz, and exam.\u00a0\u00a0 You may send me emails via liliana.lawrence@bellevuecollege.edu<\/a> or via Canvas, or find me at the office designated at BC, currently at room A200A during my office hours, or connect with me via Linkedin for professional connection. See you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":153,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-63","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/63\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}