Abstract
Adorned in a blue gown with black velvet panels, seated alongside fellow scholars, I peered into the crowd of proud friends and families of the graduates. I couldn’t find the face of the one who encouraged and congratulated me at every ascension throughout my academic endeavors—my mother, who was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer during my doctoral program; she passed shortly after her diagnosis. Although it was difficult to continue in her absence, I managed to earn a PhD in organic chemistry in what became a callous environment. I realized that the ephemeral excitement of synthesizing potential cancer therapeutics was gone, and I questioned whether to continue doing the research that had left me overwhelmingly empty and exhausted. I was later offered a postdoc position by a compassionate female scientist with a contagious fervor for biomedical research, and I joined her newly established academic glycobiology lab. I chose a
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