The Letter My GongGong Wants Me to Pass on to my Children

Thanks to geographic and language barriers, and to be frank, my total lack of effort – I know absolutely nothing about my family’s history. However, after visiting my Grandpa on a recent trip to China, he left me with this letter he wrote to his old high school to celebrate the school’s 65th anniversary, as […]

Four Formative Events with Dale Andrews

To say that Dale Andrews has had an unconventional career path would be an understatement. Dale in 1992 Amongst many other things, he was my high school film teacher, worked with Canadian icons like The Tragically Hip and Nelly Furtado, had a film premiere at TIFF, is an Executive Producer at Ginger Cat Studios, and also happens […]

A shameless confession about imposter syndrome and being ‘keen’

Every time of transition in my life has come with feelings of imposter syndrome, and that everyone around me is somehow smarter, more successful, and simply more ‘put-together’ than me. This was definitely true in my first-year of university. I found myself constantly comparing my grades, competition results, and summer plans to my peers, and […]

A Shameless Confession about Failure: Robert Colquhoun

From being one of the youngest ever Business 1220 professors at Western University, to being the 2018 HBA Class President, to being nominated for the USC Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Robert has always come across as an incredibly successful guy. He also happened to be one of my favorite professors this year. He […]

A Shameless Confession about Failure: Victor Lal

From founding Canadians for Syria and raising $60,000 by swimming across Lake Ontario to sponsoring multiple Syrian refugee families, to being a past President of Western’s largest general business club PBSN, to winning a seemingly endless list of case competitions, Victor is an incredibly successful guy. To be honest, many of the people I’ve met […]

“So what do you want to do with your life?”

(spoiler alert: I really, honestly have no idea) Whether it’s nosey relatives, worried teachers, or curious classmates, this is a question that I’m asked at least twice a week, and this is a conservative estimate. In many programs, it seems like there’s a binary. If you ask someone in a science program, the expected answer […]

A Shameless Confession about Failure: Maxwell Tran

To be perfectly honest, Maxwell Tran has been someone that I’ve put on an almost god-like pedestal for over four years. There was something about the way that he carried himself and interacted with other people that made you believe he genuinely cared about the work he was doing and the people that he was […]