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Blog / Challenges
I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo
I am coming to you live from the coveted Boston Logan International ... move out by noon. Not realizing this until after I booked my flight, though, I realized I had a very unfortunate amount of time between move -
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 / MIT Life
Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…
each other. How we did this without words is beyond me, but I will always treasure those moments when the girls would clearly be talking about me in Sinhalese, and I would start imitating them and we would all laugh.” But when -
Blog / Challenges
How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.
bad, 5.112 might rape me, but how are- man, I don’t think the Subway guy ... So I was really tired last night. I’d been in northern Michigan ... ridiculous dreams. Like this one dream I had over the summer. I was in Harry -
Blog / How to Human
Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!
basic plan is included in student tuition. This is something that I didn't know coming in - I thought that because I waived the extended insurance ... have to buy condoms. Make sure you go when they're actually open (I -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles
^ how not to do it. "Help! I'm from [Los Angeles ... midlayers! (1) Baselayers When I'm in the city, I usually just wear cotton t ... investing a bit more money in upfront. A cheap sweater that pills and falls -
Blog / Advice
On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…
. I have been in many workshops about how to support friends rather than ... relationship with my ex-girlfriend. He and I would break rules that were in ... don’t want to hear about him. I am in so much pain. How much pain is -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition
words what the show was about, what I thought during the show, and how I ... beautiful piece captured everything I pictured in a blog about the Vagina Monologues, but couldn't express in words. I never thought I’d be performing -
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 questions...but I'll answer this one first.) Ahh, never spend $700 on books ... comes to worst, buy it from the Coop or Quantum Books, which are the main -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Self Help I
read parenting books when I was a kid--books like How to Speak So ... complimented me on the firm handshake I learned in Chapter 4. And then suddenly ... trying and failing to make change in their own lives, and I doubted an -
Blog / How to Food
Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.
) bush has been popular in the United States since the 70s for its ... receptors of the tongue and activates them in response to acid, making sour ... approved by the FDA as a sweetener or food additive, but is mass-produced in -
Blog / Miscellaneous
What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!
relevant to my life/things I would actually buy or not!) So I thought today ... the only things I write with. I buy them in bulk. It all started in high ... am always doing that which I cannot do in order that I may learn how to -
Blog / MIT Life
The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…
marketed in the correct way.” She would soon encounter obstacles as ... months when he choked in his sleep. Most people would quit if they endured these types of experiences. But she didn’t. In retrospect, I feel -
Blog / Miscellaneous
[Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26
tea for lunch, and then I take a caffeine pill because a large black tea ... . I’m nearly halfway through! 5:24 — I take another caffeine pill when ... about sleep schedule optimization. I learn that Jason believes in -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Black Lives Matter until they don't.
week in this country, that word popped up a lot. In orientation, I ... “black” got more weight and I wasn’t quite sure how to deal with it. Mostly ... afloat in the comforting bubble of MIT, so it didn’t really matter. I had -
Blog / Challenges
MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.
. Long ago I spent a year at MIT (my “junior year abroad” in Boston) so I thought I knew how the place worked (not quite, Dad!). Our family has a comprehensive medical plan that I buy through my employer, who negotiates with -
Blog / MIT Life
Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.
abuse. Wow, Super Energy Pill would be an awesome band name. Uh, sorry ... them just to see what happens, but not in a dangerous way." Really, I ... easier (shoot, three more days!). Anyhoo, I'm going to be covered in fur -
Blog / MIT Life
Talking to Strangers
creepy. He asked if I would take a picture of him in a costume he’d just ... , recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in ... can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to -
Blog / How to Food
Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT
I would from the giant pills, so I got the giant intimidating pills. They scare me, but I take them because I can hear my mother in my head ... me of analyzing what is in the foods I am eating and determining which
