According to Chang, juggling her lives as a professional musician and a serious Harvard student is simply an exercise in time management.
By knowing her concert schedule roughly two years in advance, Chang explained, she has plenty of time to coordinate her academic efforts and activities with professors and TFs.
Because she must practice everyday, Chang lives off-campus near the Quad.
“As it is not permitted to practice in the dorm rooms, and as none of the Harvard music practice rooms could be reserved exclusively for my use, the ideal thing to do was to get my own place,” she said.
Chang said she’s happy she chose Harvard over Yale or Julliard, schools more well-known for their music programs.
“Most of these students [at Harvard] have very strong non-academic interests and commitments—and I chose to come here because I wanted to build a solid intellectual foundation for personal satisfaction as well as have something to balance my artistic efforts with,” Chang said.