Tag: r’perspective
R’Perspective: #MeToo: A movement of visibility needed for change
As I reviewed my notes for the forthcoming high school Model United Nations conference in a seat by the sliding doors of the 12:30...
R’Perspective: We are not the UC Rejects
Two weeks from commencement and I can’t help but think about my first two weeks on campus. For me, being the only student from...
R’Perspective: Living with and growing out of anxiety in Latino Union
In 2015, my anxiety levels were at an all-time high. My father was hospitalized in January of that year due to breathing problems that...
R’Perspective: The positive returns of being active in college
With the majority of my peers in high school relocating to the midwest or east coast after graduation, I felt ashamed to admit that...
R’Perspective: The horrors of Facebook, one year later
This May 8 marks a day that will live in infamy for me — the one year anniversary of the day I joined Facebook.
Facebook,...
R’Perspective: What is an Asian person supposed to do as a...
“Aren’t all Asians supposed to be good at math and science?” As an Asian-American myself, the number of times that I have been asked...
R’Perspective: Club Penguin: The party that everyone was invited to
Having been born during the dot-com bubble, more likely than not, a millennial will refer to media when reflecting on an important moment in...
R’Perspective: A year singing the trap house blues
It took coming home from school one Monday night to find two of my housemates sifting through a pure block of cocaine for me...
R’Perspective: I’m sorry, animals, but you are too tasty not to...
I grew up in a family that was rooted in a crossroad of white, Mexican and native attitudes toward food: We left no food...
R’Perspective: Is it really only rabbit food?
It all started in the summer of 2016 after I had eaten a very large serving of four-cheese lasagna. The nauseous feeling that overtook...