Being an Asian athletic trainer is truly special. Of course, there are a variety of ways to “be” Asian. I conducted an informal survey once & I realized that I had to add options when asking people about their demographics. I made room so people could select multiple races, and…

I know it’s not anywhere near St. Patrick’s Day, but I’m feeling incredibly lucky right now. With PhD school, most of my personal relationships, my dog, my health (all things considered, being in this walking boot has actually been perfect because it limits the things I can do in the…

Now these are things that work for me…so I can’t say they’ll work for everyone. It should go without saying, but these are all “within reason”, because at some point it would just be incompetence. And it also might be ill-advised to take public speaking advice from a comic for…

For the longest time, I’ve known that I move too quickly. I move faster than my brain can think. I’m always moving, and going, and going. I’ve heard it from my mom. As a kid, I was somewhat clumsy, and my mom always told me to just slow down. She…

Alright y’all, this is somehow already my last semester with classes. I’m truly enjoying my time as a PhD student because it feels like the last time where I’ll have a lot of people to catch me. I guess I don’t know what it’s like out there, after all of…

Well, that was one hell of a semester. Everyone who told me that your PhD just gets harder…was very right. I mean, I knew it was true, but you don’t really get it until you go through it, you know? …

Recently I’ve been wrestling with asking for help when I need it and learning to rely on others because of everything that’s been going on at work. …

I wrote this 7 months ago: I like the irony of this title because I’m a (relatively) strong water-treader. But that’s just the point. I’m used to fighting through stuff but for the first time in a long time, I feel like I’ve hit a wall. I feel like I…

Silence to me, is a horrifying sound. I realized I wrote about it awhile back, here. It was more about waiting “with bated breath” during one-on-one important conversations, about how I try to fill uncomfortable silences so I don’t have to hear the truth from people. But today I think…