I Was Told Not to Attend My Sister’s Yale Graduation Because I Wasn’t Good Enough Until I Returned as the Speaker

and not quite pity. More like the feeling of watching a structure that was always going to fail finally failing.

My career was moving in the opposite direction.

I joined the neuro-oncology research lab in my second year and spent nights and weekends on an enzyme inhibitor trial that showed early promise in halting pediatric brain tumor growth. It was continue reading …