“Impostor syndrome (also known as impostor phenomenon, fraud syndrome, perceived fraudulence, or impostor experience) describes high-achieving individuals who, despite their objective successes, fail to internalize their accomplishments and have persistent self-doubt and fear of being exposed as a fraud or impostor.1 People with impostor syndrome struggle with accurately attributing their…

I realize I’m a little late to the party. I actually started writing this a couple weeks ago when I watched Don’t look Up for the first time, but as life goes, I became distracted by other endeavors. …

(This one is a lot, so be prepared lol) This week I was in therapy talking about boys (if I’m talking about boys usually it’s a good week because that means my work anxiety is low and nothing terrible is going on in my life), when my therapist asked me…

I’ve had anxiety for as long as I can remember. As a young child, it manifested as some minorly annoying compulsions like making sure that everything that happened to one side of my body also happened to the other or having to eat chicken nuggets in a certain order based…

Christmas is a beautiful holiday. It’s fun, it’s cheerful, it’s filled with love and warmth. Maybe someday I will even celebrate it with people whose tradition it is to do so. That being said, it isn’t my holiday. It isn’t a universally “American” holiday. It is, in its essence, a…

I have no fucking clue. I became a chemist because I loved chemistry, because I loved science. I decided to get my PhD because I wanted to learn more, I wanted to be better. I wanted to be a real scientist, to try and contribute some good to the world…

When I started graduate school there was no such thing as COVID-19. The only people who knew what a coronavirus was were microbiologists. My first quarter at UCI was fall 2019. By my second quarter, news of a novel coronavirus had started to spread. By third quarter, the university had…

I do not usually think in words. It actually really surprised me to learn that most people think in words most of the time (at least this is what I have found to be true based on my conversations with people on this topic, most notably a poll I put…

Welcome to my blog. If you’re reading this first post, you probably already know who I am. That being said, I am going to tell you about me anyway and why I am writing this blog. Ever since I could write, I loved writing. I was voted best poet in…