My International Journey to Learning and Exploring New Opportunities
Two weeks before I turned 21, following an 8-year immigration process, my family and I left everything and everyone in China to embark on our journey to the United States....
Category "Self-Discovery"
A Case for Compassion
A common exercise in helping people determine what they want to do with their lives is to ask them to go forward in time to the day after they have...
Carey Finance Grad Sows Solutions for Success on the Eastern Shore
Two roads diverged in a wood and I—I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost The above quote, as cliché as it...
Tapping into Your Career Vision
In all of the years that I have spent providing career coaching and counseling to the incredibly bright, motivated, and accomplished students with whom I have the pleasure of working,...
Transitioning to Life in Baltimore, an International Student’s Perspective
Walking my final steps towards the airport entrance, amidst the chaos juggling in my mind, I try to direct my thoughts toward the checklist one last time. Passport ✔ Ticket...
Three Lessons Learned from Running a Small Business
Three years ago, I decided to turn my hobby of videography into a small business to run on the side and pay for some of my bills while I pursue an...
Design Thinking in Career and Life
Did you know only 27% of college grads end up in a career related to their major? And that in the United States, two thirds of workers are unhappy with...
4 Keys to Constant Positivity
When I consider what positive means, certain things come to mind. On a graph, I would think of up rather than down and right rather than left. Each of these...
What Makes You Come Alive
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman Since...
The Gift of Perceived Incompetence
Many years ago, when I was doing a lot more photography work professionally, I went to Penn Camera, my local shop, to pick up supplies for an upcoming shoot. Penn...
Want to Change the World? Make Your Brain More Grateful
Neuroscientists seem to love Thanksgiving because it’s the time of year when people think about what they are grateful for in life. And gratitude isn’t just for people who have...
5 Lessons I Learned from Carey’s Experiential Education Program (Video)
What’s an MBA student from the internationally recognized Johns Hopkins University supposed to do to get international business experience? Skype. Just kidding. Go to Italy as part of a team...
Career Lessons from the World’s Best Chefs
“I close my eyes and I want to understand where I am, cooking is about emotion, it’s about culture, it’s about love, it’s about memory.“ Massimo Bottura “The greatest lesson...
Good Reads: Are You Confident?
Are You Confident? Confidence is important. In fact, Katty Kay and Claire Shipman, authors of The Confidence Code, “found that success correlates more closely with confidence than it does with...
5 Lessons Learned from Grand Jury Service
Earlier this summer, I completed service as a grand juror in the DC Superior Court. Eight consecutive weeks of service, meeting all day on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Grand jury...