How to keep in touch with friends and family while you’re at college
Regularly calling home and staying up-to-date with my family’s everyday affairs became my key to coping with feelings of uncertainty and vulnerability.
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Tag Archives: family
Money, madness, misogyny: A history of the US work model
It’s easy to boil the work model down to plain economics: Certain capital, resources and investments have to be weeded out if they don’t prove economically viable.
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Keeping my options open
In typical fashion, I have decided to simply let future me make the decision between further education and finding a job.
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Signature dishes for Korean Thanksgiving Chuseok
Chuseok, or Korean thanksgiving, is typically a time of gathering with family, cooking together and celebrating the year’s harvest.
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Memories we choose to keep
Cal in Color
Especially because my overall life mentality is to look forward rather than to reflect upon old memories, I’ve realized that I have let many moments from my past fade away; I’ve allowed them to pass me by when I really should have held them closer.
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Road tripping through 46 states
During my family’s time in North America, we traveled around 46 states in the United States and five Canadian provinces, driving in our SUV and sleeping at local campsites.
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Expectations vs. reality of being a middle child
I am the middle child of three girls, and when I tell people, they either react with a surprised “woah,” a curious sympathetic expression with the question, “Do you have the middle child syndrome?” or some sort of empathy expressing that they are also a middle child.
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The language of the heavens
Off the Beat
Bits and pieces of the language are scattered across the modern languages of India, but in itself, Sanskrit is incredibly complex. As an example, there are three types of nouns, each with more than 21 derivations, equalling almost 63 different ways to parse just one word.
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Why I love baseball games even though I don’t like baseball
Walking into Dodger Stadium on a warm summer night has to be one of my favorite feelings in the whole world. I love the rush of being with thousands of die-hard fans, yelling and cheering, everyone excited to see the beloved Los Angeles Dodgers. From the overpriced food to the bright splashes of blue scattered everywhere, the atmosphere is unmatchable. I walk into the stadium and suddenly I have an inexplicable sense that I would legitimately die for this team.
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Living in a multigenerational household
After COVID-19 hit, my grandparents sold their house and were living in mine. But living in a multigenerational household has both perks and challenges.
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