When I was 14, I had my last sex-ed class. At that point, the closest I’d come to an understanding of female anatomy was labelling where ovaries were on a low-resolution fill-in-the-blank image of female genitalia for a health test in school.
Most sex-ed curriculum is about the act of…
I held my water bottle filled with bleach with one of my hands. I was attempting to keep my raincoat over my head with the other. But it was all pointless anyway; I was wet to a new extreme.
Even after hours of hunching in a kinda-squat position, the storm…
I once had a (virgin) mojito, and it lead to the most excruciating pain of my life. I still have nightmares about lime, soda water and sugar.
I was 12 and in Cuba for a family vacation. The great thing about Cuban-all-inclusive-resorts is the ability to exploit the free drinks…
I love this quote.
If you snooze your alarm every morning, you’re not going to become better at waking up without an alarm.
If you’re unkind to the people around you, you won’t become kinder.
If you’re always late to hand in assignments, you’re not going to become better at…
I’m working on emm.health, so the issue of maternal health care has been top-of-mind.
The other day my friend and I wanted to walk really far. It was to try to develop empathy for women in rural Sub-Saharan Africa who walk hours roundtrip to receive care for their pregnancies. It…
Endometriosis is a chronic illness that affects one in ten[1] women. Its medical definition is when endometrial tissue grows somewhere other than the uterus; endometrial tissue is the tissue that grows on the uterus that is shed during the monthly menstrual cycle. If it grows elsewhere, that person will experience…
I have been part of The Knowledge Society (TKS) since September 2018. Sept 2018 — June 2020 as a Student, and Sept 2019 — April 2021 as an employee.
This program has been truly revolutionary in building my network, skills and career ambitions. A few sentences won’t do TKS justice…
Background: I did the program in my sophomore and junior years. I’ve only ever been to public school. I’m a first-generation Canadian. I’m a senior now with an offer to study Human Sciences at Oxford (in the same building where Robert Hooke studied !!!!!!).
I also got the Morehead-Cain (full…
Written in November 2019.
I’ve started to internalize the importance of controlling my expectations.
Why? Because expectations control our lives. They cause anxiety, disappointment and negativity.
Often, we don’t choose our expectations. It’s easy to get conditioned by society; expectations are easy to acquire but difficult to control.
Instagram gives…
Anyone who has ever spent more than 30 seconds with me knows I ask a lot of questions.
Ever since I was young, I’ve had a “scientific mindset.” I was trying to drill at why things happened. I also asked a lot of “what if [insert hypothesis]?” questions because I…
