May 24, 2012

Maaaaannnnn….

Once people get past this crazy idea that people are outraged over the things that happen here because we all hate Williams and think it’s the worst place in the world, the conversations can be more productive. We all have strong feelings about this place and what it needs to change/keep to be the best liberal arts college in the nation because we like it here, right? I wouldn’t give two fluffs about whatever hate crimes and administrative decisions that happen around here if I didn’t love it and want it to always be a better place. 

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FYOU GM

My grandmother asks, “So why don’t you sign up for one of those programs where you go to Korea for free?” to which I reply “Lolzies, you think I’m staying home because it’s fun. You think I’m at a place where I can deliberately choose to go to play in Korea.”

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@hyuninc Any non-celebrities ever been hospitalized due to “exhaustion”?

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But ACTUALLY… me. Eeep!

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May 23, 2012

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Best thing ever or best thing ever?

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May 22, 2012

FC

You wake up at Seatac, SFO, LAX.

You wake up at O’Hare, Dallas-Fort Worth, BWI. Pacific, mountain, central. Lose an hour, gain an hour.

This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.You wake up at Air Harbor International.


If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? 

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May 18, 2012

WHEN I IMAGINE THE PEOPLE WHO AGGRESSIVELY POST ON WSO

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May 15, 2012

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Actual performance during the show was better… I love both groups. Busker Busker’s new album is pretty rocking and 투개월’s Yelim has such an attractive voice

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Busker Busker & 2Months - Juliette Cover (SHINee)

  • Busker Busker (BB) and 2 Months (2M) were top 2nd and 3rd contestant from Super Star K3 (SSK3), the equivalent of American Idol 
  • BB and 2M collaborated this during the ‘super week,’ when participants are randomly selected and collaborate to cover certain songs they choose
  • BB and 2M covered SHINee’s Juliette, which fired attention from Koreans 
  • After playing this song, 2M went to the next round and BB were eliminated, but luckily BB went to finals as one of the ‘TOP 11’ contestant of SSK3 since Yeri Band, who made to the finals but refused to go to the finals.
  • + Main vocal of 2M was in the drama “shut up and flower boy band” recently XD

How have I just discovered this only now? O_O  This is magical.

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May 13, 2012

SHINee fangirl moment of the day

So, I was procrastinating instead of doing my finals (what else is new) and watching Shinee’s episode on Weekly Idol. 

During the random dance time, they start playing Sherlock and everyone becomes confused about where they’re supposed to stand. It’s a mess. Then, Jonghyun says, “IT’S THE SECOND VERSE! I recognize the little ad-lib I sing in this verse!” 

Holy crap, Jjong, I don’t know whether to be impressed by your intimacy with this song or terrified by how obsessed you are with your own voice. 

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The problem with my major

I love my major. I knew I wanted to be a psych major for a long time, and I have not been successful in my attempts to diversify more. Other classes I take are pretty cool too, but it’s hard for me to find a broader subject I enjoy.

With that said, it’s also a difficult field to study as someone who is concerned about minority issues. As a field, psychology doesn’t try hard enough to be more inclusive. For the sake of a more simple analysis, we fail to account for the individual differences that we see out in the world. We have to scramble to find data that are not about Caucasian, middle to upper class, heterosexual, male/female people. The convenience of sampling encourages this culture of normativity. 

I’m not willing to accept that as the answer and move on. We have come to the point where there are efforts to conduct research specifically for the racial minority groups in America. While this probably isn’t the most perfect solution, at least racial groups and differences are being accounted for in these studies. 

On the gender and sexuality front, it is not as quite as rosy. Most demographics questionnaire ask for identification through either male or female. (Gender, mind you, not sex, although people will still have trouble with that one). In studies of romantic relationships or attraction, homosexual couples are often eliminated to simplify the data to fit our models of gender differences and gender roles. It’s hard to answer questions like: if we hypothesize that marital conflicts will affect women more because women are more interpersonally oriented, then how do we explain why one spouse is more sensitive to marital conflicts within same-sex couples?

To a certain extent, psychologists need to work with a reductionist version of reality because this is the way we can make predictions of trends. However, there is a lot of room in the field for a movement towards a greater inclusion of our participants without needing to sacrifice what we do. After all, our research is to illuminate our understanding of how the human mind works. Our world is much more fluid than the one that we try to make sense of through categorical values. 

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May 8, 2012

These were the comments I saw on an article about a specific Asian-American studies class “ENG 224: Asian-American Law, Bodies and the Everyday” at Princeton. They were interesting because they presented a lot of the ideas and issues that I myself have thought about when the Campaigning for Asian American Studies began at our school.  1. The first comment was one I immediately thought of when I read this article. Granted, I know not a single thing about what the course will be like beyond what is provided in the article. It could very well be that the topics will cover the entirety of the continent of Asia, but the description does seem to suggest that the topics discussed will, indeed, concern East Asian-Americans with no clues as to if, say, South Asian-Americans will be included.  2. The first comment made by 12 is the most frustrating one to deal with. Princeton do not offer courses in ancient Hittite, it’s true. But Sports Medicine is also not a major offered at Princeton but is a popular discipline in many other schools. It’s also infuriating because it implies that Asian Americans are not worth studying about while European Americans (whose histories are established as the norm. How many times do we walk into a class that’s labeled “Literature of Anglo Americans”? They just call it “Intro to American Literature”) are. Just because Economics is a topic far from my interests or scope of experiences doesn’t mean I have the power to assume that it must not be an academic field.  3. The second comment made by 12 was also an interesting one. In these two comments exist a conflicting argument: while the first one suggests that AA Studies should not have to be offered because 12 doesn’t think it is important, 12 contradicts him/herself by saying that student opinions should not dictate curriculum. As for myself, I can see very clearly that student interests do drive curriculum. We cut out departments when students no longer choose to take course within the subject. Discussion and lectures are driven by what and how the students inquire about the field. The developments may be very slow and limited, but schools (good schools, anyway) offer new courses and curriculum to suit student interests. For if it is not a curriculum driven by student interest, why do we need costly classes where teachers and students sit down in person to participate in the lesson? Why do we give a choice for majors and courses? The concept of the college, the university, the higher-level education fails when we assume that students do not have an active role in learning. 

These were the comments I saw on an article about a specific Asian-American studies class “ENG 224: Asian-American Law, Bodies and the Everyday” at Princeton. They were interesting because they presented a lot of the ideas and issues that I myself have thought about when the Campaigning for Asian American Studies began at our school. 

1. The first comment was one I immediately thought of when I read this article. Granted, I know not a single thing about what the course will be like beyond what is provided in the article. It could very well be that the topics will cover the entirety of the continent of Asia, but the description does seem to suggest that the topics discussed will, indeed, concern East Asian-Americans with no clues as to if, say, South Asian-Americans will be included. 

2. The first comment made by 12 is the most frustrating one to deal with. Princeton do not offer courses in ancient Hittite, it’s true. But Sports Medicine is also not a major offered at Princeton but is a popular discipline in many other schools. It’s also infuriating because it implies that Asian Americans are not worth studying about while European Americans (whose histories are established as the norm. How many times do we walk into a class that’s labeled “Literature of Anglo Americans”? They just call it “Intro to American Literature”) are. Just because Economics is a topic far from my interests or scope of experiences doesn’t mean I have the power to assume that it must not be an academic field. 

3. The second comment made by 12 was also an interesting one. In these two comments exist a conflicting argument: while the first one suggests that AA Studies should not have to be offered because 12 doesn’t think it is important, 12 contradicts him/herself by saying that student opinions should not dictate curriculum.

As for myself, I can see very clearly that student interests do drive curriculum. We cut out departments when students no longer choose to take course within the subject. Discussion and lectures are driven by what and how the students inquire about the field. The developments may be very slow and limited, but schools (good schools, anyway) offer new courses and curriculum to suit student interests. For if it is not a curriculum driven by student interest, why do we need costly classes where teachers and students sit down in person to participate in the lesson? Why do we give a choice for majors and courses? The concept of the college, the university, the higher-level education fails when we assume that students do not have an active role in learning. 

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