Dear future me,

Dear future me, I hope you're doing well. I hope you're happy, fulfilled, and proud of the life you've built. Lately, things have felt increasingly overwhelming. I'm trying to do everything at once: working in the lab, building the Endocrine Atlas website, writing this blog, volunteering, searching for shadowing opportunities, learning how to drive, studying …

Dear Imperfection

Dear Imperfection, As an artist, dealing with you comes with the territory. You show up in brushstrokes, uneven lines, colors that don’t blend the way I imagined. In art, imperfection can even be beautiful. But as a researcher, you terrify me. I think about the weight of getting things wrong. Not small mistakes — not …