For this week's post, I decided to learn how to fold an origami heart. It's one of the more traditional paper foldings in Japan, and when I realized it was one I hadn't learned yet, I had to try it out! While it may look pretty simple at first glance, like a lot of origami, I learned that there is more to this little heart than meets the eye. Try it out forRead More0 Comments

As many people may know, I'm half Japanese. Born to an Okinawan mom and a California dad, it was sometimes hard growing up between two vibrant, racial spheres. Obviously, both had a significant impact on me. Though I grew up in the states, and as Americanized as me and my siblings inevitably became, my mom made it her mission to keep her children as culturally aware as possible.  I was raised with anRead More0 Comments

Your 20's, to me, is a glorious decade of pure creative freedom. It's your time to travel. To pave your own path. To find out who you are (or aren't) in the best way you know how. But like many other 20-something year olds, looking towards my own future is equal parts promising and bright as it is mysterious and daunting. Routinely I will wake up in the middle of the night andRead More0 Comments

Now that the semester has come to a close, it is finally time for my last blog post. Looking back, J4804 really pushed me to limits I didn't even know I had. Through six team stories, I learned so much about myself as a journalist and a professional looking to work in quite possibly one of the most stressful industries to date.  I've laughed. I've cried (probably the most out of every otherRead More0 Comments