CASA Minnesota

You Dim Sum, You Lose Sum

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Listen to Asian American college students and their guests share their stories and perspectives about a variety of topics ranging from careers and academics to social justice and popular culture to their personal lives. This podcast is hosted by CASA Minnesota, a student group at the University of Minnesota. CASA started this podcast to talk and share our stories as students looking to juggle school, jobs, and social commitments, and we hope you can learn and laugh hearing our successes and struggles.

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Position Podcasts - Secretary/David 02.04.2021 9:21

As CASA board elections for 2021-2022 are coming up very soon (April 17th and 18th!), we decided it'd be a good idea to turn You Dim Sum, You Lose Sum into a platform where current board members can shed a little more light on what they do. Next up is our Secretary, David!

Position Podcasts - Events Coordinator/Alexis 31.03.2021 7:44

Position Podcasts - IVP/Kenny 31.03.2021 10:00

Don't Drink if You're on Antidepressants - Episode 7 10.03.2021 33:34

In this episode, Kenny, Abby, and Leia (our special guest) talk about mental health and coping

All Things Chinese & Chinese American Food - Episode 6 27.02.2021 1:06:49

In this episode we talk about our favorite home-cooked Chinese dishes, our favorite Chinese dishes to get at restaurants and our opinions on Chinese Americanized food. 

Don't Wear Shorts to the Career Fair (Unless it's Virtual) - Episode 5 20.01.2021 55:10

In this episode, Kenny, Andrew, Alexis, and Amanda discuss jobs and internships and how the pandemic has affected career prospects for college students

The Dating Tea - Episode 4 10.01.2021 52:36

In this episode Andrew, Grace, Abby and Kay spill the TEA of their relationships and discuss the topics of long distance relationships and dating interracially. 

Do You Feel Like You Have No Identity? - Episode 3 25.11.2020 56:40

In this episode, Abby, Kay, and Ryan discuss being adopted and touch on topics like identity, trans-racial adoption, discovering/re-discovering one's culture, and mental health

Qi in Mulan? Kung Fu Panda 3 did it better - Episode 2 13.10.2020 1:11:00

In this episode, David, Abby, Andrew, Amanda, and Alexis discuss Asian representation in media, fetishization, and the new live-action Mulan movie

CompSci Boys are the Smelliest Boys of Engineering - Episode 1 14.09.2020 48:49

In our first episode Abby, Alexis, Amanda, and Ryan discuss virtual university, how they have coped with COVID, and how to still make connections in college over Zoom

You Dim Sum, You Lose Sum Ep 0 [Introductions, Part 2] 04.09.2020 39:17

Introductions to the other half of our board, Alexis (she, her), Abby (she, her), David (he, him), Andrew (he, him), Kay (she, her)

You Dim Sum, You Lose Sum Ep 0 [Introductions, Part 1] 04.09.2020 1:02:30

Introductions of half of our board, Kenny (he, him), Ryan (he, him), Grace (she, her), Amanda (she, her), Jamie (she, her), Shirley (she, her)