Hsueh-Ping Meier
Apparel Merchendising and Textiles
hsueh@wsu.edu

Biography
Hsueh-Ping Meier, a senior student at Washington State University, is majoring in Apparel Merchandising and Textiles.  As a Chinese person born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, Hsueh-Ping is the youngest of five children.  During and after her high school years she worked for several clothing companies as an assistant fashion designer and fashion illustrator.  Hsueh went to Hawaii to study English as a second language after she finished high school.  

Between 1992 and 1993, she attended Miles Community College in Miles City, Montana.  Hsueh then returned to Taiwan for the next 3 years to be with her family.  Hsueh returned to Montana once again in the summer 1996 and completed her last year of community college.  Later that year she was married in November 1996 to an American citizen. 

Seeing fashion design as her future career, Hsueh continued pursuing her dream of becoming a successful fashion designer.  Hsueh and her husband took a vacation in the summer of 1997 with the intention of looking at colleges in Washington State while looking into what Washington State University had offered.  Hsueh then moved from Miles City to Spokane.  After working for a year in Spokane, Hsueh finally pursued her education in Pullman, Washington in January 1999 as an undergraduate student.  At this point, Hsueh has been an undergraduate teaching assistant for three semesters, and she still works hard to achieve her goal and looks forward to enrolling in graduate studies.