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11.30.17

My favorite thing about my mentor is that he genuinely cares about us. He spends a lot of his time planning things to help us grow. When he gets mad, it’s because he is disappointed and wants us to be better. He also wants to make sure we are ok. Today, he reached out to me to make sure that I was ok and I really appreciated it.

I don’t have a least favorite thing about my mentor, but I do agree with my friends that he is too hard on himself. He is such an amazing person and has no reason to be hard on himself.

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11.29.17

After Graduation:

I really want to make a tangible impact on a lower-income community. I would love to go to an international community, maybe through Peace Corps. If I stayed local, I would want to do Teach For America or a similar program. I also want to travel with my friends because once you start medical school, your life is pretty much planned out for you.

Long-Term Goals:

In 5 years, I want to be in medical school working towards becoming a pediatric cardiologist or neurologist (surgery?), surrounded by the people I love.

In 10 years, I want to be in a good residency program pursing the career I am passionate about and possibly married.

General goals:

I really want to learn to place less value on what others think of me and I also want to be more accepting and loving of myself because the combination of these things contributes to my lack of self-confidence. However, I have been working towards this goal and I am definitely a lot close than I was a year ago!

Regardless of whether or not I decide to go to medical school, I want to find the things that I love to do and do them with the people I love.

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11.28.17

I’ve had so many favorite moments this quarter, so picking a specific one is really hard.

Buuuuuuuuuuut, my favorite moment was when Wanton and I were playing beer pong completely sober during our sleepover. I had just passed my super tired mid-night phase and was super hyper, and Wanton and I were killing it! Although we lost (BECAUSE WANTON KNOCKED THE CUP OVER), I had soooo much fun. JTrinh also chased me around the beer pong table trying to make me take a shot. It was a pretty fun 24 hours.

Also, I’m gonna add another random memory to this post because I’ll probably look back at my Tumblr some day. When we were driving back from the first night, I remember looking out the car window and uncontrollably smiling because I realized that I had just made 14 new friends that I was going to get super close with.

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11.27.17 (Pt. 2)

This is my representation of Jared. He was born as a premature baby and was diagnosed with Kawasaki Disease. He stayed in the ER for an extended period of time due to a very high fever and a lack of circulation. At some point, his doctors were concerned that he would become brain dead. Even after being treated, Jared has had multiple clot scares (one of which happened a couple of weeks ago!). Jared has been through so much, and he is such a strong person. He is also the youngest of 3 siblings, so he’s the baby of the family! He also really liked boba, which is why we got boba and ramen for our date. I am so happy that I met Jared this quarter!

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11.27.17

It’s 5:42am!

I have not slept. This is great. My friends and I are currently sitting in our cars waiting for a couple of people to wake up. I need to sleep, but oh well. I was pretty productive though, so that’s exciting. It’s now 5:44am and I’m still tired. I think the sun is rising, but it’s too early and it’s super foggy. I’m also getting progressively more and more frustrated because I could be sleeping rn. It’s littttttttttt!

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11.26.17

I made it home! I love driving, but the drive home was kinda painful. It was foggy when I left my house, but I assumed that it would go away once I got to the highway. It didn’t. It did get better tho, until I hit the 78. The fog was so bad that I could barely see a couple of feet in front of my car. I had to go 50mph to stay in my lane. It was so bad that some people were going 20mph and I couldn’t see their cars until I was 10ft behind them. There were also road flairs in the middle of the highway. I also saw about 7 people get pulled over which was more terrifying than the fog bc I was definitely speeding. But, I got to pick up a good friend of mine (S.D.) from the airport and I made it home safely, so all is well. Time to sleep bc I’m exhausted.

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11.25.17

Hello! I am currently driving back from SD. I realized that I didn’t write a tumblr post, so I am currently pulled over just to write it. Also, I have a papercut. Just thought I would share. The last few days were a much needed break from UCLA. I’m going to start driving again, good bye!

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Week 8 Vlog! I love you all <3

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11.23.17

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! I hope everyone’s day was filled with good food and even better people.

I got back from the beach at 2am and woke up at 9am, but decided to go back to sleep until 11am. My mom made some bomb quiche for breakfast and I spent the rest of the day teaching myself how to juggle, serenading my phone, planning out scrapbook and writing a funny skit with a good friend of mine. Dinner was really good, but I think my lack of eating this quarter has shrunk my stomach because I couldn’t even finish my first serving of food. But there’s always room for dessert! Happy turkey day from me and the self-proclaimed “champagne papi”˅

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11.22.17

Helloooooooooooo

Ya gurl is home and she’s so happy!

I left campus at around 10am and I got back to SD at 1:30pm bc I there were multiple accidents and I had to drop a friend of a friend off in Irvine.

I got Board & Brew and gelato with my friend, Ra Ra. We also reminisced over really old pictures from middle school.

I then took my friend, Mo Rice, to Tutti Frutti to catch up. While we were talking, I heard someone shriek my name and when I looked up, I saw only the silhouette of a tiny person. As she walked closer, I realize that it was my favorite person, Viv!

As time passed, more and more people showed up. We then got kicked out of the area we were sitting at. To save you the boring details, I am now at the beach with 6 of my favorite people (Sydbang, Burkette, Viv, Arjun, Plex + Mo Rice) and 2 of them just had a competition to see who could roll in the sand fastest to the water.

I wish you all a happy Thanksgiving and a very large food coma!

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11.21.17

Not-so-stressed. Pt 3.

It is currently 3:30am. I will probably still be awake when the sun rises and when you wake up.

If I ever hear the words “cardiomyocytes” “cardiac fibroblasts” “tdTomato” “mesenchymal-endothelial transition” or “endothelial cells” one more time, I cannot be held accountable for my actions.

So far, in this quest to finish this waaaaaaaaay to long of an assignment, I have already punched a table, laid on the floor, uncontrollably cussed, hysterically laughed, punched someone (whose name may or may not start with an “A” and end with “N”), and masterminded a plan to avoid turning in this assignment (which involved throwing up and seizing). Much of this was prompted by the coffee that I drank 6 hours ago. Oops...

We will see how the rest of the night/morning progresses, as I am sure there will be an escalation in my delusional state of mind.

I have already written 8 pages in the past 4 hours, and I am not even halfway done. Feel free to stop by the Dungeon when you are walking to class in the morning as I am 90% sure that I will still be here unless I give up and decide to take an L on this assignment.

Update: It’s 6am and I am now at 14 pages... SINGLE SPACED...

Update #2: The birds have begun to chirp, and I’m sure the sun will rise soon.

Update #3: It is 8:30am and I just finished. It is 15 pages with 4 full pages of figures. I feel brain dead. Buuuuuut aside from a presentation week 10, I am finally done with midterms and assignments until finals. Let’s see if I get through today w/o any sleep - should be interesting.

Update #4: I decided to go to sleep for the 1.5 hours before I had to get ready for class. Weirdly enough, I wasn’t as tired as I thought I would be when I woke up. Definitely still exhausted, but I think my body has adapted to a general lack of sleep. I also think I have ingested more caffeine in the last 24 hours than I have all quarter.

I hope you are all having a great day!

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11.20.17

Stress is everywhere. Pt 2.

Today is officially the day of my second second midterm. Have not studied, so this should be interesting.

In light of my LS midterm, I wanted to share some 12:30am thoughts on sexual dimorphism and sexual selection.

In the natural world, sexual selection acts more strongly on males than females. This is because the production of an egg is more energetically costly than that of sperm. Therefore, females are allowed to be more “picky.” Males must often compete for the opportunity to mate with a female. Male birds sing and dance to grab the attention of female birds. Male seals fight to the death to win over a female seal.

My question for you is why is this trend reversed in the human race? How did women end up having to try so much harder than men? Yes, men do have to try a lot too, but please don’t fight me on the fact that women have to try harder.

Props to all the women who dress nicely for themselves and who legitimately don’t give a shit!

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11.19.17

Stress. Stress. Stress is everywhere. Stress is in the air. Stress is in my hair.

It is officially the day of my first second midterm. Yay! Time to pull 2/3 of a quarter of physics out of my a**.

Oh how I wish that I actually paid attention during AP Physics my senior year. But instead, my friend and I sat in the back and memorized rap lyrics. Still got an A doeeeee.

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11.18.17

ah-sah-EE

Not a-sigh or a-cai, ah-sah-EE

For the longest time I was addíçted. During my senior year, my friends and I drove 40 mins 3 days in a row just to get good acai. I have tried different types of açaí and I have to say that I prefer the ones with a thicker consistency (this is a pretty controversial opinion).

I am posting this because I usually get açaí whenever I go home and I’m pumped that I’m going home next week! If you every find yourself in San Diego, I would recommend Mad Beets, Sambazon, Better Buzz, and Rum Jungle Cafe. If you have only tried the açaí from Jamba Juice, you’re really missing out.

Please wish me luck as I will probably not survive the next 3 days...

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Edits: I meant “LS midterm” on Tuesday + I would switch out the bag for black Nike running shoes bc my Nike free runs are dying.

Edit to my edit: I meant “LS midterm on MONDAY!”