I think one of the most satisfying feelings I've ever had so far in my life is seeing something that I worked on come to life. And no, I don't mean come to life in a model - I mean legitimately, in real life, usable, workable structures.
I think some of the saddest emails I've ever received are the influx of messages from MIT President Rafael Reif, always titled: "Sad news about a member of our community".
So the first week of the new school year has passed, and while I do not have anywhere near the amount of work I will end up having when the semester really begins to pick up (thank you, studio) it seems like the rush and stress is already coming back.
For those who don't know, I lived in Shanghai from 7 - 13 years old, and when I was 13 I moved to the US to go to boarding school in rural Connecticut. Most of my formative childhood years and memories are based on China, but because I left at 13, I left with the naive associations a young girl tends to have, and my stubbornness to believe in those rose-colored memories kept me from seeing what was really in front of me.
I've mentioned before that I have a ridiculous amount of yarn collected and need to use up, so here's another crochet project that I just recently finished for my apartment!
My friends and I had a pretty great weekend last week, filled with laughter and chopping and slicing vegetables (and in Veronica's case, herself).
Last weekend, Catherine and I went ham on cooking food from home - she made some stuffed rice, and I decided to make some scallion pancakes (easiest Chinese cuisine to make, ever). I thought I could share the process with everyone, if anyone had ever ordered it in Chinatown and wanted to know how to make some!
Originally this post was going to be about the World Cup finale and Peel Play Olé Olé (my body is still fighting off the sodium bloat, embarrassingly enough), but a very one-sided conversation about cherishing opportunity (and not being money-driven) with my very Asian parents will be taking the limelight today.
I've started numerous crochet and knitting projects recently (Catherine and I have been crochet buddies as we binge watch Once Upon A Time), in an effort to use up the ridiculous amount of yarn I've somehow accumulated these past two years. A lot of these projects are for the home, since my friends Caitlin and Emma and I will be moving to an apartment next year and I thought this especially could be a cute addition.
This past weekend was pretty calm and uneventful, especially for being Fourth of July - my friend, Andrei, invited me to have dinner with his host family (bison burgers!), I had a picnic with Julie, Stephen, and Elaine on the Commons on Saturday, and I grabbed lunch with Andrei on Sunday (Cinderella's!) - and when the week started, I got switched to the Audi Project at work.
