During this period, my classmate Han Yuliang came to my house every day after school to do homework. Every time she had a problem she couldnt solve, she would ask me, and I always put down my homework to explain it carefully to her. She gradually made progress, and we were both very ...
I learned about finding ways to recharge… I digress. Today, LaVerne told me that I looked so different. LaVerne is a lady I met a year ago at the place I am now, which I will tell you about in a bit. She said she didn’t recognize me because I looked so open and vibrant. ...
While struggling to survive financially something major was changing in my life. I came here weighing something around 200 pounds and that weight was coming off as I continued to find parts of myself that I had thought long gone. It was a pretty amazing transformation, but to be honest, I...
Think about diversity in a broad sense, as an invitation to talk about all the ways that a) you’re different from other students applying, and b) you’ll be able to contribute to a college community. For great examples of essays that define “difference” in ways that aren’t related ...
I became a political activist in 2016 when my beloved country lost its mind and elected Don the Con as President. Since then, I’ve engaged in all manner of ways to get citizens to register and go to the polls. This past cycle seemed particularly critical as a myriad of election denier...
Mentioned in11 Ways to Boost Your Online Reputationon LinkedIn. October, 2020. As seen on Donna Merrill –How to Generate Free Traffic from Instagram,October, 2020. 2018 and 2019 Mentions on the Web Last for 2019, I’m just sharing an interview with Inspire To Thrive by Mitch Mitchell.Janu...
It’s been a push, but I am excited by what we’ve put together. We have a substantial revising and production journey ahead of us, but I am looking forward to sharing this work with you all in the coming months. And so, here’s my annual wrap-up of my reading and listening. (...
From Cialdini, I learned this, for example: When you are busiest is when you need to do the most marketing. You’re probably thinking, “Right, I’ll just clone myself.” But it’s good to do. That way, when the large wave of current work ebbs, you have some potential work on ...
This is what experts say Phish fans are famously dedicated. What happens when they enter the Sphere? In more ways than one: Around her first album, Lipa wrote down that she’d like to work with Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker— specifically on her third album. The manifestation worked, and...
In the summer of 2022, both of my parents got COVID at the same time; I took care of the both of them for a little over 2 weeks without getting it myself, afraid they were going to die for pretty much that first week. When my mom recovered, she felt good enough to return my ...