I knew I did not want to be a doctor; my parents kept talking to me about that. I wanted to be an NBA player, but around freshman and sophomore year, I stopped growing, so that was the end of that.

Growing up poor taught me a lot. It instilled in me the ethics of hard work.

Parents will be parents. Even now, my mom asks me sometimes, 'When are you going to go back and get a real job?'

It was tough times in Ohio when we lived there. My dad was between unemployed and just selling random knickknacks at a flea market. My mom was a cashier at a Chinese food restaurant. They both had awesome careers back in Taiwan, and they came here for my sister and I.