Amy, you were just a pathetic new money who accidentally acquired wealth out of serendipity. How dared you show off your then newly...

Nevertheless, life went on. More and more of my new friends were manipulated by my persona and the facade I put on in the new school to...

Most of the developed countries, when admitting foreign students, would not just look at your transcripts alone. America was no...

These were the people I was surrounded with in SPCC, a bunch of prodigies who accelerated their studies and finished their masters at an...

It was Thursday afternoon when I attended the weekly Christian fellowship meeting in one of the classrooms on campus. Usually, my new...

My new friends were curious to wonder why I would not work on perfecting my grades when I had the time to do so. Why not 10As when I had...

The fact that I always hang out with Clairol and that I seemed to actually have a life outside of school on top of managing academics had...

If you thought organizing lunch outings was an easy task, then you would be all wrong. There were many intricate complexities related to...

I decided to take up basketball in the middle of the school year. I signed up to be a member of the class team and competed against other...

I got a few things accomplished upon the end of first semester in the new school. First, I had my braces on to fix my buck teeth. I was...

Brought up with Asian values and a Christian mindset, these new classmates of mine really had the worst of both worlds. On one hand, they...

Unlike the sheepish Christians in SPCC, the girls in St Francis were truly all wolverines. The school culture in St Francis was way more...

But having a biased mind and, at the same time, thinking that they were the world could be a deadly mistake. Looking at the way they...

My new friends called me Gigi. They called me Zoe. They called me Joey. They called me Chloe. They called me Mary. They called me Jane....

By replicating the Milgram experiment, I discovered something about my new friends, that they were totally ignorant about the...

Not only we were asked to each do an individual project on our favorite torture treatment, we were told to make a presentation based on...

I had a much tougher childhood. Growing up for me was full of fights, endless fights and battles. Every day I was hustling. I remembered...

"Behavioral sink" was a term invented by the ethologist John B. Calhoun to describe a collapse in behavior which could result from...

I didn't want to put it this way but I kind of wanted to summarize my observations and experience after spending three of my adolescence...

Very soon after I settled in on new campus, I quickly found myself in some sort of a pacific island paradise. I couldn't ask for more. I...