Haesue Jo was born at a small hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After living there for a couple years, eating tortillas, learning Spanish, and taking in her Mexican heritage, she moved to California with her brethren. She found sanctuary in San Jose, where she was happy to be reunited with the Mexicans and where she was introduced to the Vietnamesies. They fed her pho and taught her how to swear in their language. After having spent most of her life feeling like the extreme minority, she came to UCLA where she met more Koreans than she believed there could be in one place outside of Korea the country. She wasn't squinting with her ears to understand Spanish or Chinese or Vietnamese; she could walk around and eavesdrop on people's conversations held in her mother tongue.

Some people enjoy things like chocolate, long walks on the beach, and reading a good book by the fire. But her, she has been told that she is a weirdy (beans at?)... Some of the things she enjoys are the tickle she gets in her nose right before a sneeze, the smell of dry/erase markers, getting chills down her spine accompanied with chicken skin (aka goosebumps), and the texture of really crunchy iceberg lettuce. When manly men get mad, they like to work out to release endorphins, she assumes. When she's stressed out or worried about something, she finds cleaning/organizing to be the most therapeutic activity. Thus, her living spaces are cleanest during times of trouble in her life.

She is not a fan of confrontation and tries to be a pacifier most of the time, but she's not one to sit down and stay quiet when her integrity is being tested. Bowling, snowboarding, music, shoes, poetry, and piercings are a few things that spark her interest.

People often ask her why she likes the movie Mrs. Doubtfire so much or how she can stand to watch movies more than 5 times, and honestly, she doesn't really have a clear answer. Maybe it's that the rest of you get too bored easily. She enjoys watching movies and reading books over and over again. She thinks this tendency may reflect how she is with people.

She's just another big kid playing this game we call life.