Mike Chang just won over my heart in tonight’s episode of Glee.

Did any of you catch it? The hype over “Asian F” has been circulating for about a week now and at first I was a little bit skeptical over the episode. Producers were spilling to the press that this was the “best episode in the entire Glee series” that I was going to “cry” and “hurt emotionally.” None of those things happened to me, but it was an episode that was executed very well. I am so glad that the writers decided to dedicate an episode to an expectation that is so common for high school students. That’s not to say that this only affects Asian students – it affects many students of varying races. Students can still relate to it even despite race. However, it is something that I can understand and I just know that I appreciated that it was even acknowledged -sometimes feeling overwhelmed by expectations, sacrifices, and feeling unsupported as a daughter or a son.

Mike Chang’s story is definitely one that I have seen before and the way that it was done tonight was really nice. I wish I could have used a better word as a description, but nothing seemed to fit better than that.