February 2012
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weekends here
The Grand:
After I explain to this guy that I don’t let people buy me drinks:
“Wow..You’re one in a million”
My response: “I know”
I’m pretty badass.
Also, crying and yelling on the phone in VLSB where EVERYTHING ECHOS and I prayed that my GSI could not hear me and my fucking fucked up relationship problems.
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hello medical school app
just put some philip glass on pandora. time to bare my soul upon my personal statement, and probably end up crying myself to sleep.
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a learning week
professional advice from my roommates, time to enter the professional world please
15 card tarot card spread from my neighbor, leave with my clothes smelling like smoke, saying grand sweeping statements like “modern psychology is bullshit” and “you’re a royal person”
learning how to model HIV using differential equations :o
lesson planning on the go, and having a...
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the weekends i miss out on
my neighbor: “What are you doing tonight? I’d like to give you a better tarot reading”
my friend: “We’re going to play basketball tonight”
other friend: “Rock climbing or ides of march?”
other other friend: “You should come to the Chinese New Year Festival with me”
when i go home don’t tell me all the cool things I miss out on...
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“What is love? In yoga, there is an exercise in which you close your eyes and try...”
– A Feather on the Breath of God, Sigrid Nunez
sitting in the courtyard of the campanile with some fool on a hammock right next to me, I read these two paragraphs and started crying D: Made me think of my shitty relationship with my mom, and how I think about what I’ll say during my...
January 2012
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bursting that Berkeley bubble
Those from Berkeley know what it’s like to live in this bubble. This progressive, liberal, politically correct, ‘this is what a feminist looks like’ stickers and shirts everywhere, the poorly disguised shudder when someone mentions that they’re Christian, or heaven forbid, Republican. I went to a retreat recently in which the speakers burst that bubble, or told us to burst...
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“Give me any question you have about biology. I can look it up in wikipedia and...”
– Professor Lim
way to crush all biology majors’ spirits
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remedy for a hangover and sleeping on a floor with...
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“Simply put, there are no pigtails in industrial hog production. Farmers...”
– The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan
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Ten Reasons Why You Should Never Accept a Diamond... →
machistado:
1. You’ve Been Psychologically Conditioned To Want a Diamond The diamond engagement ring is a 63-year-old invention of N.W.Ayer advertising agency. The De Beers diamond cartel contracted N.W.Ayer to create a demand for what are, essentially, useless hunks of rock. 2. Diamonds are Priced Well Above Their Value The De Beers cartel has systematically held diamond prices at levels far...
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China 2013
So I applied for a volunteer position for ChinaCal. I’ll be helping out two other directors to recruit interns and in general helping out the org for 2012. Payment? Free stay for a month with them upon completion of position, experience working in a non-profit, and working with hella bomb doctors. See you in 2013, Yunnan.
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content
this break has just been family, friends, and (sometimes) work. and it’s just so nice. and I’m thinking, this is all I need. just this.
December 2011
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“Date a girl who doesn’t read because the girl who reads knows the importance of...”
– http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/dont-date-a-girl-who-reads/
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anger
So I was angry the other day on behalf of and at my sister for basically giving her friend a ride. A lot of her friends have been using her because she is a middle class American, (though she in no way earned it) has a car, SSI, lives under a roof, and healthcare insurance. Some of her friends do not have these luxuries, they see it, and most of all, see her passivity and her loneliness, and use...
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a Csian
lol i just told my parents I got a C for the first time in a class. it was very anticlimatic. They kinda just grunted at me and asked if it affected applying to med school. I kinda just grunted back.
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tis the season
lots of heartbreaks going on :(
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playing this nonstop
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bobbypinned:
Khalil Fong - Red Bean
Fong was...
finally done with this CRAZY semester!!!!!1
whoa
it feels strange to be only responsible for one class now. This semester was so hectic juggling all five, and now it’s just down to one. Feels weird to put away all that knowledge in a neat stack.
TIME TO CONCENTRATE D: keep reading up on asian am issues instead :l
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oh hey
what a terrible time to get nostalgic about China
finally blocked him from gchat- not like he was talking to me anyway. How anti climatic. China doesn’t belong to him anyway - it’s in my blood too.
Eva graduating, how quickly the years fly by - I still remember our high school graduation like yesterday! so much fun talking to old fashioned, well intentioned folks who still see the...
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“Being impaired or not being normal (which, as I have said, with the help of...”
– Sunny Taylor
what makes you valuable to society? or should this question even be asked? :L
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cruisin
sleepy, getting sleepier listening to blue scholars and nujabes, trying to study..
studying with a girl who is so smiley and awesome. Everything she says she says with a smile, every question she asks is said with a smile and a ^_^. Don’t know how she does it. I start speculating what her family’s like and if her parents are this nice and positive, if her life is just really awesome...
November 2011
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Fox News does it again →
so bad that it has to be a joke, and yet it’s not. racism is still so fucking alive it permeates even to the far off regions of China. I distinctly remember James saying “I don’t want to go to detroit…too many niggers” and I was in so much shock I just let out a laugh and then berated him. It was just so bizarre to hear that word in China, thousands and thousands of...
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the beginning of the end
you start to recognize it.
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dumplings and pizza, western and eastern
In Chinese class we were talking about the idea of 含蓄. Or rather the teacher gave a few examples of the “reserved” nature of Chinese people. Her first example was the typical 四合院， the courtyard of the olden days in which grandparents lived in the house directly facing the entrance with the most respected people always lived there. People would place a wall right when you enter because...
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fashion and yellowfacing
http://www.racialicious.com/2011/09/14/unintentionally-eating-the-other/#more-17866
hm, this answers a lot of questions actually. Well written.
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Watchi will never understand the undying loyalty to college sports teams.
akagoldfish:
lasocialista:
**TRIGGER WARNING** FOR VIDEO: DISCUSSION OF RAPE
the-mtblog:
Jon Stewart took to The Daily Show last night to talk about the Penn State child sexual abuse scandal, and gave a serious commentary about how people knew of Sandusky’s abuse and didn’t do anything, as well as the recent student...
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avocado
my dad made me a sandwich to go for dinner on the amtrak. He fried an egg, heated up a veggie pattie, and asked if I wanted avocado on it. I said, sure, if it’s convenient. So he gets the avocado, and asks me how he should put it on. I said offhandedly, just slice it up and put on the pieces? He said nah, they’ll slide out of the sandwich when you bite into it. I was frantically...