DJ

What hobbies have been passed down from your family? My Dad, in my eyes, is the pinnacle of productivity. He works 40 hours a week, but somehow manages to engage in numerous personal projects at a time, simply for quality of life—Skills to learn, online courses to finish, self-help books to read. Although busier than me, he somehow finds time for it all. In order to keep track of everything he does, he uses a system called the “Bullet Journal”, or “BuJo” for short. Essentially, it’s a way to organize your goals for the year, sectioned into quarters, months, weeks, and then days. The idea is that by allowing your BuJo to hold and record all of your tasks, you can let it go from your brain and optimize your mental energy on things requiring more creativity. Ever since my Dad got his first BuJo many years ago, I’ve never seen him more faithful to anything else. Oftentimes when I come downstairs for breakfast I see him studying it intensely: Crossing off tasks, rescheduling others, and pla...

What’s the most memorable thing you ever got in the mail? On the day of my 13th birthday, I received a mysterious envelope addressed to me in the mail. Inside was a  folded sheet of yellowed notebook paper. I was pretty confused at first—it looked like an old letter written by a child. Upon taking a closer look (and an interesting glint of light in my mother’s eyes) I realized that child was me. And it was addressed to the tooth fairy. By then my mom had probably realized I didn’t believe in the tooth fairy anymore, which is why she was bold enough to hand me the letter she had kept all these years. The day I lost my first tooth I was eating spaghetti. It had been driving me crazy for a week now, and it finally let go when I was chewing and bit into something hard. Excited, I carried it proudly inside a ziploc bag everywhere I went. I begged my parents to let me bring it to my friend's house that same evening. They told me no—knowing my character, they assumed I’d lose it. But bein...