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Adulthood Boom!
Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging. -
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Blog / Art, Literature, Music
things that are golden a zine
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay -
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Blog / Academics & Research
我没去过北京 在外国出生的孩子的故事
(Read the English version here!) 我没去过北京。我们回中国去的时候，总是去上海、南京、杭州，总是在江苏一带。我记得，我小的时候还能说上海话（我三、四岁的时候，外婆照顾我，我就学了上海话）。 我第一次去中国是四岁的时候。我们到了上海就去我亲戚的家了。我只有一个清楚的记忆：有一天，我阿姨要让我小睡一下。她告诉我，“如果你不睡觉，叔叔会切掉你的鼻子！”。 我还不知道这个记忆是真实的还是来自我的梦，可是我知道以前我就会说上海话，可是现在回想起这个记忆，是英文的。 我小的时候，我妈妈经常告诉我，“我们上海人”。这个句子在上海话里面是个口头禅，而且听起来不像普通话。我觉得很棒，常常自己说，“我们上海人，我们上海人”。 我小的时候，我爸爸也会用阿姆哈拉语(埃塞俄比亚的语言)告诉我，“我们是埃塞俄比亚人” 。我也觉得这句子很棒，常常自己用阿姆哈拉语说，“我们埃塞俄比亚人，我们埃塞俄比亚人”。 我去学校的时候，老师告诉我们 “我们是美国人”。可是，我自己觉得，我不是美国人的样子。我自己跟别人自我介绍，就会说，“你好，我叫周婕。我是一半中国人，一半埃塞俄比亚人。” 那时候，移民的孩子分成两种。第一种不喜欢父母的文化，或者想跟美国孩子一样。他们不喜欢吃妈妈做的菜，不喜欢学父母的语言。第二种很喜欢自己家人的文化，跟别的移民孩子玩。那时候，我以为只有这两种，没有什么中间的。 我们呢？我和我弟弟好像是第二种，可是，我们是在丹佛长大的，没有人跟我们一样。这不是丹佛的问题，虽然丹佛的人口不太多样化，但其实，世界上很少人跟我们一样，是一半中国人，一半埃塞俄比亚人。 (去年夏天，我妈妈，弟弟和我弟弟的朋友去中国旅行。我弟弟的朋友也是一个移民的孩子，他是一半中国人，一半美国然） 我们去上海的时候，虽然我可以说“我是上海人”，但是人们常常盯着我和我弟弟。我渐渐长大，也越来越怕跟别的中国人讲话。我会说、写中文，可是，我怕我的中文说得、写得不太好，别人就会笑我。我觉得别人不相信我真的是中国人，总是只看我皮肤的颜色。 特别是在地铁上。不管什么地方，在地铁上，人们都会盯着我们看。我六岁的时候，有一次在上海的地铁上，一位女士盯着我和我妈妈，说，“这个妈妈真不称职呀！她怎么可能让那么小的孩子烫头发？？” 她不知道我是一半非洲人，所以我的头发是自然卷。 在麻省理工学院，我上一门中国电影的课。有一天，我们看了一部电影，叫《苏州河》。《苏州河》的取景在上海。我看到上海的样子，真得非常感动。我意识到，我六年多没回中国去了，而且从来不是一个人去中国。我就又苦又甜地回想起了我们以前去中国的记忆。 （上海的苏州河） 有一次，我们在一个南京公寓住了一个月。我觉得这样好象我们才是真的住在南京。我跟我妈妈、弟弟去商店买东西，然后回来煮菜、吃饭。我跟弟弟去公寓楼的游泳池玩。我们还去看夫子庙，还有南京的夜市。我也经常跟我的表姐玩了，有时也和我妈妈的朋友的孩子一起玩。那个夏天让我真的爱上了江苏，特别是南京。 我问我妈妈怎么说，“对不起，我是美国人，不会说中文”。这样，如果别人问我问题我听不懂就可以这样回答。可是后来我觉得这句子是错的。我要改成：“对不起，我是外国出生的，不会说中文”。因为，我心里还觉得，我是中国人。 我是上海人。我是埃塞俄比亚人。我是一个世界的孩子。这样的孩子不太多，我们的生活挺难的。可是，我为自己感到自豪。 感谢我的中文老师, 张锦。她帮我改正这个博客文章。感谢我自己的妈妈，她也帮我改正这个博客文章，也总是让我和我弟弟学到中国的语言、历史、文化。 -
Blog / Challenges
Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe
asks if I'm free to play some Among Us, and we play for a few hours ... first one to wake up. I curse the morning air for being too cold to go back to sleep, and after checking my phone for five minutes, I get out of -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?
I saw an email encouraging freshmen to audition, so I showed up on a ... ’s early precursor to films like The Matrix and Tron, World of Wires offers ... through the hallway to the other side (and me sitting on the couch!). This -
Blog / How to Human
Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome
. Without it, I had to reckon with everything that did. I've had this on and ... 'm on year [annotation note="this number feels unreal to me, like maybe I'm just being dramatic. I didn't have to change my habits for the first -
Blog / How to Food
Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!
'm here now, so it's okay! Or something like that. Moving on to the point ... Trader Joe's every one to two weeks, both of which have tons of options for ... . These dorms also all have one kitchen open to all residents (for example -
Blog / MIT Life
On Time That which I do not have.
of Science/Museum of Fine Arts - MIT students get in free to a lot of ... myself up-to-date on goings-on outside the world of MIT - What? The ... color pencils and drew for fun. 7. Learn how to iron my clothes - At -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
For great justice…
The UA Committee on Orientation has come out with a report on ... contributed to it. Your Orientation experience can really shape your MIT ... you don't have time for that, you can read the summary report, which is -
Blog / Academics & Research
Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?
Cancer is on my mind lately. I know how to have fun, huh? But maybe it's because yet another good friend of mine just had surgery for ... winning book on cancer, or maybe it's because I just took a tour of the Koch -
Blog / Events
Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?
One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a ... to enhance MIT’s role in contributing to the broader discourse on ... one of my MITFAC emails, I was warmly invited to a free sustainable -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.
to my neck in applications (I just want to save my wrist watch!) For ... asked some of you to sit on it, in 2 days flat we'd have a flawless 30 ... It is clear to me that I COULD NEVER WRITE ENOUGH ABOUT THE -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you
; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 ... /songs, feel free to drop them in the comments below for other folks reading the ... We're big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now
interesting stuff for me to tell you! Stay posted for more updates on CK, Chamak ... . At the beginning of January, I flew back to Boston for a month ... externship program is a pretty cool opportunity for MIT students to take advantage of -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??
itself), which included a night out to Bartley's. On the first day of ... and muffins; later there was free food in our dining halls for the rest ... ." Orientation lasts around a week, during which you go to events to (for lack of a
