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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 / Admissions
Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests
fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Over the past week, student activists from Stoneman Douglas have spoken out loudly, often, and in public -
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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / MIT Life
Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams
its star. I will, however, say that the Caine's Arcade website is ... interested in seeing what Caine can do with an engineering degree. ... and all sorts of different games, rummaging for raw materials in the -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!
website that I've been working on a lot since school got cancelled just ... , and current research projects that you can check out. I also cheated on ... 's...so...beautiful...[/caption] In my last post, I mentioned how therapeutic it felt to be able to drag -
Blog / Admissions
Class of 2010 Roll Call It's May 1st -- welcome to MIT!
website, we though they might be interested in buying one for themselves (or ... shirts to any location.I would appreciate if you mentioned this in your ... your MIT reply form with an affirmative response, check in here in the -
Blog / Academics & Research
All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.
restaurant you were expecting eleven and having them spit in your sushi. I ... razors with soap in them already. I'm living in a fraternity in Boston ... the last to get up. After I get up I go to my job in Building 46, where -
FAQ / First-year application
Where can I find info on Graduate Admissions/Masters/PhD?
one of our departmental programs(opens in new window). Each department has its own application website and admissions requirements. -
Blog / MISTI
Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world
, because I wanted to jump back up in the sky and say, no! I can't let go let ... just in different hues. I've been traveling for the last month around the ... over and over. And sometimes I would look at myself in the mirror and -
Blog / Personal Travel
I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.
entamoeba histolytica! Is this your first time in Europe... oh, wait, can I ... Europe. Probably forever. I'm just chilling here in my air ... in my last entry. I wanted to title this entry "Now I'm a little boy -
Blog / Challenges
art and work i really struggled with titling this one
highlights in around 15 hours - but i wonder how much of a show’s message or ... . something similar can happen when writing music - sometimes when i arrange i ... better technique. but i think improvements in technique alone do not -
Blog / Personal Travel
seven scenes from Paris a simple story
honey thing. “I would never even consider going vegan if I lived in Paris,” I told Uzay, sitting there next to him in the park, breaking off bits ... . We made conversation, I can’t imagine what about, mainly to feel the -
Blog / How to MIT
BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?
good. I have a propensity to see something expensive, want it, and buy it ... so much of this "I want I want I want" spending that can happen before ... know (knew?) absolutely nothing about cameras so I put in the effort of -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!
downloaded from iTunes and buying furniture for the new apartment to do a ... websites. I spent a great deal of the summer before my freshman year at MIT ... cartographic reality in Boston. Once freshman year, I had gotten my hair cut near -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!
told anybody this, but I spent the better part of 3 months agonizing in ... always a luxury students get to enjoy). I've been known to spend an hour in ... 're interested in buying a bunch of MIT gear and you don't have access to campus -
Blog / Research & Work Abroad
love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility
or fidget with my watch like I do in real life and instead can give ... In Milan I was constantly toeing the line between speaking solely in ... intimidating-looking cafe I saw in the neighborhood of my hotel, asked for a