I believe that happiness is ever-changing. For a long time, my favorite quote about happiness was always: “happiness doesn’t come as a...

During spring break of 2016, I had the pleasure of serving the community of Vienna, Virginia, a poverty stricken neighborhood with a...

The amount of suffering that exists in this world is immense and seemingly insurmountable. Living in the U.S., we are often sheltered...

When I embarked on my first year at UCSD, I was convinced that becoming a physician was the epitome of everything that I had hoped to...

After a long, first day at the clinic, we loaded the rundown buses back up with large, plastic containers filled with antibiotics,...

Recently, I volunteered with fellow fraternity members at the Bannister Family House, a local program that helps give patients receiving...

I traveled to a rural village in Honduras called Tomatin during this past spring break through UCSD's Public Health Brigades. During this...

I really don’t want to travel around right now for two reasons. One: I would want to travel once I can sustain myself financially; go to...

I’ve always been a hard-headed biology student. I love science. I love structure. To me, that’s safe because science is methodological,...

In my family, we don’t give each other sentimental gifts but I wish we did. My most sentimental object is something I found in my...