Mom Texted 'Skip The Reunion - You'll Embarrass Your Successful Cousins' - Then The Mayor Spoke

Mom Texted 'Skip The Reunion - You'll Embarrass Your Successful Cousins' - Then The Mayor Spoke My name is Jordan Chen, and I've spent the last eight years being my family's greatest disappointment. It started when I dropped out of medical school halfway through my second year. My parents had immigrated from Taiwan in the 1980s, built a successful restaurant supply business, and raised three children with one very clear expectation: become a doctor, lawyer, or engineer. Preferably a doctor.My older cousin David was a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins. Cousin Michelle was a partner at a corporate law firm in Boston. Cousin Robert was a neurosurgeon. Cousin Amy was a federal prosecutor. The list went on—twelve cousins, all with advanced degrees, all with impressive titles, all making our family proud.And then there was me. I'd gotten into Stanford Medical School, which made my parents ecstatic. For exactly eighteen months. Then I'd walked away.