This past Wednesday was the last episode of Scrubs, a show which I had gotten hooked on in college. What had initially gotten me hooked were the main character’s (JD, played by actor Zach Braff) fantasies and daydreams. They reminded me a great deal of the little daydreams I had while walking/driving from place to [...]
Eight Years On June 7, 2007, I (and about 1600 other members of the Harvard College Class of 2007) participated in the 356th commencement at Harvard University. When someone asked me about it, the best way I could explain how I felt was that it was “simultaneously overwhelming and underwhelming.” How can that be? It [...]
Eight Years Date: (Spring 2005) There was a semester where I considered going into organic chemistry. Why not? I had liked the orgo classes I had taken. The subject matter, at least from textbooks, seemed fascinating to me — using the properties of Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen, and my other friends from the periodic table to [...]
Eight Years Date: (May 2007) What do Harvard kids do for fun? Play meaningless trivia drinking games? Watch marathon sessions of extremely nerdy television shows? Discuss the finer points of random philosophers? Yes, yes, and yes (all personal experience). But, what better way to spend the month leading up to finals in a school full [...]
Eight YearsDate: (spring 2005) At Harvard, we have a set of General Education requirements which have been pigeonholed into specific components of “the Core”, 7 subjects outside of our field which we Harvard students, as we are getting a “broad liberal arts education,” were supposed to experience. In January of 2005 (second semester sophomore), I [...]
Eight YearsDate: (fall 2004 – now) I’ve been to almost all the dining halls at Harvard, and I have to say that while the architecture/lighting for some of the houses may be better (ie I love Mather’s setup), while the dishes or view may be better in some, and while the food is better in [...]
Eight YearsDate: (fall 2000 – summer 2001) Ms. Graves. Second Period. Honors Integrated something (whatever came before pre-calculus). Sophomore year in high school. While most people can only remember sleeping or making snide remarks about Graves, I remember my awesome math group which included A. Phan, myself, A. Cheung, and some other Asian who’s name [...]
Eight YearsDate: (winter 2001-now) It was a dark and cold night. My brother and I, with nothing to do, were just sitting on the couch, channel-surfing, making stupid jokes about this and that. We turn to what was once the WB where I hear something which catches my ear, something about a character named “Clark” [...]
Eight YearsDate: (fall 2003-spring 2004) It wasn’t much to look at. Granted, I wasn’t expecting an expansive, well-furnished room for a dorm at Harvard — and in fact, I was grateful, compared to the crap Berkeley and Stanford dorms I had been exposed to, my rooming setup was VERY nice. But… my immediate thoughts were, [...]
Eight Years Date: (winter 2005-now) Lester Leung struck me as very odd the first time I met him. The odd dash of color in his hair. The strange look in his eyes whenever he talked about “pirates”. And the paranoid side of me was always a bit uneasy around someone who seemed to be nice [...]