January 2012
3 posts
I watched The Help the other day, and it actually made me cry. I’m not even the crying from movies type. Terrific movie, and I adore Emma Stone.
New Year's Resolutions
Every so often, I find that I’ve been incredibly stupid. Lately, it’s the whole internship searching thing; the whole fashion thing; the whole journalism thing.
In reality, none of it matters. I want to go into econ, and then law. While my passing fascination with fashion and journalism is fine, it’s fanciful. It’s not my future, as in all reality, with my major of applied...
December 2011
2 posts
September 2011
2 posts
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dknyprgirl: We Remember... →
dknyprgirl:
On September 10, 1991 photographer Scott Tugel borrowed some Donna Karan samples for a photo shoot he was doing in NYC.
He took this picture.
I’m sure after he took it, he thought he had gotten the perfect shot. What he couldn’t have known is that it was literally an eery foreshadow to what would occur almost exactly ten years later.
Now, almost twenty years later to the day...
August 2011
4 posts
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July 2011
8 posts
“As Harry Potter was the only other thing I was passionate about, the doctors...”
– Evanna Lynch, in part of her Dear Mr. Potter letter, where she describes first reading about Luna while in a recovery programme for anorexia (via holymotherofhnng)
This made me cry even more than the actual film did. But it’s another reason to believe that Harry Potter changes lives.
(via...
this may be the last summer i ever “train”, the closing chapter of this dream i held for years and then tried to maintain as time fizzled out as a consequence of academic pursuits.
my mother was talking about “adult championships” the other week, and i really don’t think i want to do this anymore. i think it may be time to pursue athletics as fun rather than...
random thought/rant of the night
never really understood when people say “i’m so proud of you” - not when parents or friends or coaches who saw you work for something everyday say it, more like when acquaintances, people you really barely know, express how so “proud” you have made them. i can’t help but think, i did it for myself, or maybe even for my parents, but good grief, i did not do it...
June 2011
17 posts
where do i stand politically?
in my neighborhood, i’m liberal; in my town, i’m moderate/liberal; in my metropolitan area, i’m moderate/conservative; in my college’s town, i’m conservative
i often wonder why everything to my father is another thing to add onto the list of disappointments. i don’t understand why it’s such a production to let me go shopping, visit dc, or do anything other than study. i don’t understand why he has to say condescending comments about my grades, my intelligence, my weight. so, i’m sorry i don’t always have the same opinions,...
autobiography
i think that if i were to write an autobiography of my life, no one would read it it would be about my eating issues and how they’ve been the backdrop of everything in my life.
when i think about it, they’re often subconsciously the reason for so many of my decisions and issues.for instance, low self esteem leading to unfortunate situations where i try to convince myself i’m...
fireflies
much like i had never seen, or known that, clouds move until i took the time to stop for a moment senior year, i had never seen a firefly until last week. i ran by the secluded area of the running path - a part i usually speed through due to fright about the secludedness. i saw two glimmers of light, and wondered for the rest of the run if those had been fireflies. today i ran by that same leafy...
battle hymn of the tiger mother
today i read battle hymn of the tiger mother by yale law professor amy chua about chinese mothers and parenting. maybe, i thought, after reading this my relationship with my mother will somehow miraculously improve.
i’ll admit i was a bit disappointed. at times i related so much to chua’s daughters sophia and lulu (who i “know” through a couple degrees of separation), and...
this whole applied math major thing
sometimes, actually quite frequently, i wonder what i’m doing with my life.
i’m terribly afraid that i’ve somehow gotten lost, that i’ve made decisions not because of what i truly wanted but rather because of what i was so afraid to do. the prime example is science or medicine - i know i don’t like science, but i don’t know why i don’t like it. all i...
Yale In New York | Conversation With Lena Chen →
AH. makes me really wish i was in the city this summer!
lenachen:
Hey Yalies in the city! Looking forward to meeting y’all and chatting freelance writing this Monday in the Lower East Side. (I’m leaving for New York in an hour!) While we’re at it, why don’t we just forget this whole school rivalry thing and just agree on the common enemy: Princeton.
A Conversation with freelance writer, Lena...
May 2011
4 posts
one of my life goals is to make my college and...
today
i stepped on the ice for the first time in months.
sure i’d done intramural hockey, but this was actual practice.
and i landed a double loop. seriously a miracle.
i weigh more than i ever have in my life. freshman 15 and all i suppose.
my father: “you look twice as big as anyone else on the ice”
actual truth, b/c most on the ice look about 50-60 pounds and 7-9 years old at...
end of freshman year.
you know how time just pauses sometimes? for a few hours, a few days, a few weeks, time just stands still as you get caught up with classes and finals and sleep. and then all at once time catches back up, and it all comes crashing back at you.
like a wave, or more aptly, like a tsunami. a tsunami of emotions, of memories, of fears, of hopes. a tsunami that carries so many great experiences and...
March 2011
9 posts
Watchnoelduan:
This brings me back to my childhood.
Just kidding. I still can’t figure out the steps to “Soulja Boy.”
February 2011
7 posts
