How excel changed my life

Why we should all learn to use Excel

“The software itself doesn’t make you smarter…but somehow, it gives you credibility.”

The most annoying thing about hypocrites

Why hypocrites are not “special”

What’s the most annoying thing about hypocrites? Is it because:

• They don’t practice what they preach?
• They know what the rules are but still break…

Don’t waste my time

Don’t waste my time. As much as I am a patient and empathetic person, one of my biggest pet peeve and one that gets on my nerve is when I can smell you’re wasting my time.

Don’t waste my time when your timeline was a fail to begin with.

A year in perspective

Tomorrow marks the last class of my law school.

A little more than a year ago today, when I made the decision to apply and to return back to graduate school for a second time, never would I have imagined what 2019–2020 would have given me. Never in my wildest…

The golden snitch

What we can learn from Harry Potter

Seizing the opportunity — I refer to this as the “golden snitch moment”.

The golden snitch is the fast miniature flying ball that zips around the quidditch tournament in Harry Potter. It’s fast, it’s quick, and…

The power of networks.

The power of networks. When I was younger, despite being as strong academically than any other applicant and has superb extracurriculars, I was turned down again and again because I didn’t have a network. As a second generation Canadian, I couldn’t ride on the coattails of my parents like…

Your personal litmus test

Where you have high tolerance is also where you have your blind spots.

Everyone has a litmus test. This is your tolerance level for whatever situation you may be in.

The “marinate”

The term “marinating” is not unknown in the cooking world. We recognize the value of drenching something in another thing, then to spend time on it, in order to get a good product at the end. This is a tried and tested method and one that we acknowledge “the longer the better”.

X hits the spot

How a generalist can be niche too.

As someone who works in technology, and studies technology, I naturally end up talking and reading a lot on technology.

The headline of “will AI take over our jobs” is a topic that i’m very familiar with — whether…

5 things I learned from applying to grad school a 2nd time

What I learned this application cycle

“What I learnt was that some things don’t change, and some do.”