When UNC-Chapel Hill freshman Mo Zheng saw the course description for a class called “Pursuing The Good Life,” it seemed like kismet.
The questions asked in the course description were ones he’d been asking himself as of late: “How should I live? Whom and how should I love? What claims do family, friends and country have on me? What is the source of meaning, purpose, happiness and transcendence? How should I deal with suffering, injustice and my own mortality?”
Zheng said that sometimes, it feels like he doesn’t know why he’s doing what he’s doing — and he’s doing a lot. He’s pursuing a major in neuroscience, a minor in the School of Civic Life and Leadership, playing violin in the UNC Orchestra, volunteering at local hospitals and trying to figure out how to answer when people ask where he’s from. He’s lived in Shenzhen, Szechuan, Toronto, Clemson, Greenville, Raleigh and now, Chapel Hill…