Trying to untangle my identities, but it’s impossible
“Your personal statement was very interesting and enjoyable to read, but it doesn’t present a clear argument why Joanna Lin would make a good doctor."
Wenbo Slips
A ball hits me? Ow. I hit the floor? Ow. The ball hits the floor? Ow. The ball, floor, and I are actually all part of a rocket blasting off in consensus with the rocket equations? Ow. Ow. Ow.
Life, the universe, and 12.400
In 135 B.C., a comet appeared in the twilit skies of Asia Minor, and in that unearthly light was born Mithridates the Great, future king of Pontus and one of Rome’s most successful opponents. A second celestial interloper adorned the skies as he took the throne in 119 B.C., and in 44 B.C., a third comet reigned over Italy, mere weeks after Julius Caesar’s death. According to legend, that is, and John T. Ramsey’s historical analysis.
My love: it aches
“Such a simple question, such a complicated request — please, know me.”
Frustration and empathy are conflicting
Extending empathy to those who are struggling used to be something I defaulted to and something I championed to others.
Where the sidewalk ends…
The truth is, I only learned how beautiful it is to love other people and the world when I wasn’t so caught up in despising myself.
When formality goes out the door
I felt like I had just committed one of the worst faux pas in my life — and it was recorded to be stored on Panopto video forever.
A ramble I am not quite qualified to ramble about
Even Among Us, a game with absolutely no consequences, uses the popular vote.
“Routine” traffic stop
Like clockwork the officer says into his radio, “black male detained.” These words strike you harder than a sucker punch. You ask him why you’re being detained, and he only replies with “for your safety and mine.”
On floating and drowning ducks
After all, suffering creates bonds; just ask anyone who’s psetted in Stud 5 until daybreak.
Whistleblowing and accountability
What if this was a social experiment from the Media Lab? What if Harvard was pranking us?
It’s about thyme
There’s a grand sense of longing that fills me often, but longing for what?
Reflecting on my anti-Asian bias
Maybe we were brainwashed by all those European and American history classes.
Abstractions of emotion
Over the surface of the river, a hint of a rainbow colors the path below my feet. Love’s in the air. Can you taste it?
Can professional development align with social justice?
This feels like guilt. Heavy, smothering guilt that I am not doing enough today, and when I finally find the time tomorrow, it will be too late.
Dilapidated doting
I’m seeing things I hadn’t seen in years since I left the great state of Texas.