And no, it’s not how to calculate a slope. — On a sunny May morning near the end of senior year, the drab analog clock above the classroom’s lone entrance read 9:44 A.M. It was exam day for my AP Calculus classmates and I. Knowing me, I had probably studied a grand total of ten minutes the night before. …

Special shoutout to Pitbull. — Last week, I took a vacation from my incredibly fascinating (lol) desk job. My destination? The pearly white sands of South Beach, Florida. I traveled with four pals I had known from college but didn’t get to see often since graduating. All you need to know about that bunch is…

What I learned from my time at a low-income, low-ranking high school. — I was lucky to have the experience of splitting time between two starkly different high schools. Freshman year was spent at a so-called “bad” school, where many students came from lower-income families. We’ll call that School A. The other three years were spent at a “good” school, where students drove…

And how it can also ruin my day. — I arrived at university with very few volleyball skills. I had played beach volleyball with some friends before, but we weren’t great. I didn’t know any positions, or how to set, or how to hit (spike), etc. So how is it that I played pickup indoor volleyball at school with…

My opinion on the famous adage. — One day while riding the bus home from school, my ninth-grade self yelled, “Shut up you stupid sixth graders!” towards the front of the bus where the young ones sat — not my proudest moment. Like many people, I once thought being older than somebody automatically made me cooler than…

And how it changes our lives. — Let me start off by saying that you are kidding yourself if you think Asians are somehow predisposed to more musical talent than the rest of the world. Racial jokes aside, the stereotype has some truth to it. It’s just for a different reason than you think. I started taking…