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Blog / Art, Literature, Music
things that are golden a zine
sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. - Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT
starting out with separate artstagrams but may in the near future make a -
Blog / Class Projects
We made a website this is a filler post
that I need to buy a new laptop. I do hope that my laptop can last me at ... : A lot can happen in one month. I didn’t have any experience with web ... website! I teamed up with Dylan L. ’23 and Emma Q. ’23 to make em7.io. You -
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 / Academics & Research
Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.
take to disseminate in Haiti at the end of April. I'm working with Anila ... train their workers on site. So today, we're in Haiti. I don't know what I expected - I guess I didn't really think about how bad it would be -
Blog / How to MIT
Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!
books around here can't we?" (sorry, Laura, I know you asked other ... if you get there early you can buy a used copy. Also, it's been my ... to get. Usually you can buy older editions of textbooks for a lot less -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Choose my Halloween Costume!
other ideas, or how on Earth I can pull any of these off within the next ... have no idea what to dress up as. In fact, I haven't actually dressed up as anything in the past few years, and this is truly sad. So, I need -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…
course in the MIT Glass Lab, where I spent eight weeks learning about the ... five things that you can’t (or at least shouldn’t) eat in the Glass Lab ... to thousands of degrees in the furnace. Talk about defective! I tried -
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Blog / MIT Life
In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.
Putz): "I'm working in the Media Lab's Tangible Media Group on a new ... 2, of Simmons): "I'm off to be a girl scout camp counselor in Plymouth ... Senior Haus): "I'm spending the summer UROPing on campus, working in a lab -
Blog / Admissions
The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!
story all about how My life got flipped turned upside down And I’d like to take a minute just sit right there I’ll tell you how I became the ... master’s at UMD and now I’m a Terrapin If anything, I can say that this -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.
arrived in New Orleans, I was interviewed on camera by a producer for ... with a taxi driver in a convention city. He asked where I came from and why I was in town -- as if following a script -- and then asked me what -
Blog / IAP
Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country
you can probably tell from my stance in this picture I'm nowhere near ... When I tell people that I spent January in Andorra, their first ... small towns, which you can see in the map above: Ordino, Canillo, La -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…
driven in a direction much more exciting and compelling than if I would ... scene in Richard III, a director can choose to play it in many different ... some very fun visual and audio effects. I worked in collaboration with -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!
's...so...beautiful...[/caption] In my last post, I mentioned how therapeutic it felt to be able to drag ... Syndrome, but I cannot explain how satisfying it was to see this website ... website that I've been working on a lot since school got cancelled just -
Blog / MIT Life
In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.
person that I ever knew in high school. On Monday I'm headed for the airport in Philadelphia, and from there I'll be in the aeroplane over the ... I can recall: "Do you remember 8.02? The night before the test we were -
Blog / MIT Life
Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.
being. I can dream in black-and-white or in color, but not in black ... Movies Watched in the Past Year Through Which I Have Remained 100 ... brainwashed you into buying Coca-Cola. Need I say more? 3.Slumdog Millionaire -
Blog / Miscellaneous
girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?
: Where can I start and how do I know? I've tried my hand in media studies ... prince of Wales. I devoured the book in two days, and after I finished, I ... websites and I want to learn how to make apps. But...that's really it. I