活出来的就是答案。The answer is in the living.

I’m Lingxi Kong, also called Gaius; studying classics and journalism at Columbia taught me to follow questions into distant territories: unheard voices, unverified commercial promises, astrology’s accounts of experience, and the means by which someone can assert a right before an institution.

I founded Molihua, research China’s chemical supply chains, teach astrology, and make admissions tools freely available; now, in my third year of law school, I bring people’s requests for help to the study of facts, evidence, rules, and procedure. Poetry leaves another handwriting across these pursuits, reaching experiences I cannot yet explain. Each undertaking has its standards; I remain concerned with the honesty of what I understand, and with what that understanding can carry into life for others and myself.

More news need not bring readers closer to the facts: a repeated claim may have only one source, while reporting, commentary, and political positions become difficult to separate. I founded Molihua to connect original sources, corroborating material, and context, identifying what is confirmed and disputed so readers can examine their judgments.

In New York, I helped organize a discussion on Tibet across different positions, and interviewed the Dalai Lama in 2008; those experiences kept my attention on people obscured by competing arguments. Molihua combines aggregation, synthesized reporting, and public discussion, distinguishing facts from observation and making gaps and corrections traceable, so access to information and independent thought can sustain public understanding and scrutiny of power.

A supplier’s presentation, certificates, and quotation may leave an overseas buyer unsure who manufactures, what can be verified, and who performs after payment. 4D Sourcing researches Chinese chemical suppliers through screening, production relationships, technical documents, quality, compliance, and risk; its findings distinguish suppliers’ claims from verified material, with sources and conditions that let buyers weigh more than price.

The work extends to product sourcing and realization, connecting specifications, costs, suppliers, and payment routes with samples, production, inspection, and delivery, so an idea becomes a process with clear responsibilities and checkable records. Journalism’s questioning habit now informs decisions about other people’s money and commitments; research must explain what it knows, on what grounds, and what still awaits confirmation.

Broad character descriptions leave questions about distinct lives and event timing unanswered. Bazi and Zi Wei Dou Shu have their pattern methods, while popular psychologically oriented Western astrology emphasizes personality; our curriculum pursues finer birth-time distinctions, divisional charts, planetary conditions and strength, periods, and timing, requiring interpretations to explain their premises.

I connect Parashara and Jaimini approaches within Vedic astrology in Chinese courses covering natal and divisional charts, planetary states, periods, and rectification, alongside writing on karma, free will, consciousness, and impermanence: interpreting what someone may experience also asks how they respond, and how awareness and action participate in growth. Classics, Buddhist thought, poetry, and experience bring that inquiry back into life.

Admissions agencies promote connections and success stories; applicants need suitable programs, reliable costs, and checkable requirements and deadlines. I created LIA to make school and subject information, program and STEM searches, college comparisons, deadline calendars, timelines, cost and GPA calculators, and DIY guides freely available, so families can research their plans without first buying advice.

A decision depends on the year, definitions, and institutional source behind a figure; I therefore require sources and dates wherever possible, distinctions between published facts, derived results, and gaps, and opportunities to correct errors. Studying classics and journalism at Columbia informs this commitment to accessible educational research, so applicants can explain their choices and understand where they are investing their lives.

Language, cost, limitation periods, and procedure can separate a promised right from an available remedy. My path toward law began at the senior center I visited with my parents, reading letters and making calls for older people and immigrants, then helping people representing themselves with facts, research, and documents; apparently closed matters prompted questions about unexamined facts, possible claims, and procedural conditions.

My father’s discussions of democracy and law, and a loss of liberty connected to public expression when I was young, made dignity before power personal. Now in my third year of law school, I connect those experiences with training in facts, evidence, rules, and procedure, preparing for work after graduation and bar admission. A future law office will have its own website; here I record why I took this path.