This is the second in a series of summer blog posts where the author reflects on her time as a first-generation Latina studying abroad in Prague. You can find the first blog post here. The date is June 20th, and I’m just about physically adjusted to being several time-zones away from home. However, in many […]
This is the second in a series of summer blog posts where the author takes us through the ups and downs of queer dating for the first time. You can find the first blog post here. She’s chewing gum as she comes out the door. I hate gum. I once saw a video where they […]
A little moat, flowers blooming up from cracks in the ancient bricks, a flag lazily blowing in the breeze: a classic German schloss through and through, placed casually on the verdant landscape like a dropped toy. We stand together at the top of a tower on this castle, my new German friend Florian and I, […]
He appeared to be well rounded from his Tinder profile: 24 years old, dark hair, dark eyes, well-dressed, a student at Harvard Med. I was meeting John* for the first time after a few flirtatious text conversations. I rarely get excited for first dates considering this will be my 5th Tinder date in the past […]
There’s a sweet spot every March when the weather takes a turn for the better and the general mood on campus wakes from hibernation, turning its collective eye towards summer. Every year, at exactly this time, I wake up to feelings of intense nostalgia for a sleepy summer camp tucked by the edge of a […]
I’m a graduating high school senior from a small town off the coast of Maine. This summer I look forward to work, play and adventure. I plan on working at the golf course on the island. It’s the same place I worked last summer, which would be boring except that this year I look forward […]
It’s my first day of vacation. For some reason I thought we were going to NYC until I saw “DC” at the airport gate. After arriving at our hotel, we got lost immediately and somehow ended up in Chinatown. What can I say: the motherland was calling. (Even though I saw zero other Chinese people […]
As I type, technology is transforming the way humans consume, create and distribute music. While we previously had to pay $12 for a single album, we can now stream millions of songs for free. With cloud services, we can collaborate on a song remotely and seamlessly with a co-writer who lives halfway around the world. […]
This summer, I will be, as I like to describe it, teaching Japanese students how to “be themselves.” If this sounds like the type of hippie spiritual journey that a 50 year-old suburban mom takes after her emotionally taxing first divorce, let me explain. Beginning in early July, I will be an instructor at Toshin […]
Musings on issues facing the communities we inhabit. To clarify, I despise arguments. If someone tells you that they like arguing, it means that they enjoy the feeling of putting another person down, and they gain a sense of superiority from rhetoric. The main purpose of a conversation is to understand someone, not to change […]