Being an international student is my excuse :) 

when you're a yellow among the sea of whites and blacks especially. 

if you don't pronounce words properly, you catch things slower than others etc, professors will just think that it's because english is not your first language ;p 

which was the case with me during yesterday's 2d design class critique. we had to rate our classmate's work for each of the various criteria within a range of 0-4 with  4 being the best and 0 being the worst...apparently professor davies found it rather amusing that i kept pronouncing "three" as "tree". and she was like what?? tree?? tree again? very soon we are going to get a FOURrest (forrest). I FELT SO EMBARASSED I WANTED TO BURY MYSELF IN A HOLE AND NEVER SEE THE DAYLIGHT AGAIN. i could feel myself blushing and i am very very thankful that no one pointed it out or that would have been even worse. i guess she realised she embarassed me so she immediately tried to soften the blow with "but it's alright. i think your english is amazing. i can't even speak your language) and my friends behind her are like giving the "haha. what do you know" kinda smiling face cos they all know that english is my first language. LOL. 

so hence. i am asian who needs extra help and attention :) be more lenient with me pls! ahahaha

i'm kinda half excited and half scared about our new 2d project. we are to make a little illustrated story book with 10 characters that are visually united. sounds fun eh...only that i'm worried about creating the characters. i kinda suck at imaginary drawing and making them look nice :S oh woe is meeee :(