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Note to my ego: You better watch your damn back.

by Jen Chau

I have been losing to my ego for years. And the scary thing is, I never realized it before today. In boxing (my exercise obsession for the last two years), you know who your opponent is. No doubt about it. He is standing before you, punching and jabbing and swinging. Weaving and sweating and bleeding all over you. It’s obvious and unmistakable, and you know what you have to do. Land him before he lands you. You know who you are fighting.

Re-learning: Math and I CAN be friends after all!

by Jen Chau

In elementary school, Social Studies was the bane of my existence.  In high school, any science plus me equaled a small catastrophe. Calculus almost threatened to do me in. In college, rocks for jocks was even too much. I just wasn’t good in math and the sciences. This is what I told myself. This is what I told my family. And this reason was 100% accepted. No one told me that I was bull$#!++ing myself. No one told me to get over it. People told me to just do my best, after all, that was all I could do. And if I didn’t do that well, the thinking would be, “Makes sense. You just can’t do it! You’re not good at it!”