"You know how they say on the plane when the mask pops out of the ceiling: put it on yourself first, and then on your child? Well, that’s just it: you have to care about yourself before you can care about anyone else in your social relationships. We form so many connections and friendships that we forget that there's this one person that we're always gonna see in the mirror....
It really hit home when my close friend got arrested. I saw the obvious wrong he was doing, but at the same time, I saw the systemic flaws that caused him to live his life that way. Most importantly, I didn't have...
I'm half Chinese from my mom's side. My...
I’ve always been interested in international politics because I can’t talk about that at home...
In high school, I moved from Chengdu, China, to a boarding school in a small town in the mountains near Aspen, Colorado. During my first week in the States, I went on a ten-day backpacking trip deep into the mountains with a group of other students, strangers that I had just met. I had never been in the mountains for such a long time. I didn’t...
Type one diabetes is an autoimmune disease. You can’t control much -- changing your diet or...
Living in a city whose pride and glory is its creative people, fashion, art, graphic design, interior design--every detail matters. It...
Circus is a performance. You need to be...