It’s no brainer that ‘youth’ and ‘good health’ are considered to be the two universal qualities of attractions for procreation and vanity purposes. However, looking too youthful has one noticeable downside to me. I just recently turned twenty years old, and being that I am not a “-teen” anymore, I was hoping to be treated as an […]
Month: October 2011
LGBTQ….I? Intersex Awareness
Intersex Awareness Day was last week and it was brought to our attention by a queens college student who stressed it’s importance and why we should take notice of it. Since many of us knew very little on the subject, I felt compelled to research and talk about it. What does it mean to […]
Variations on a theme by life
I’m currently writing an analysis midterm paper on Brahms’ Variations on a theme by Haydn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2VeNiKpY0s I’ve come to realize that life is one big variation of you. The good you, the bad you, the angry you, the funny you. Life is just the frame through which your soul is portrayed. I’ve recently been […]
The Sacrifice
I will make a confession here. Since I have been in the city, I have been without TV. I hate to admit this, but I’m telling all of you this for a reason. I don’t watch TV 24/7 but I like to have one there to watch when I feel so inclined. There are only […]
Meeting People
I’ve always had a tough time making friends. It’s not that I’m a mean person or anything like that, I’ve just never been the kind of person to have tons of friends. I’ve always had a few close ones. One of the things I was worried about when moving here was if I really was […]
Science of Superheroes
One of my favorite hobbies has been immersing myself in superheroes. Whether it was reading comics, watching cartoons, watching movies, or drawing pictures of them, I love the idea of superheroes. To me, they not only provided entertainment, but also taught me good values like respect, selflessness, and virtue at a young age. In what […]
[Reluctantly] Embracing Competition
On Wednesday, I attended the Major/Minor Fair here at QC and officially declared my major as English. Even though I’ve known that’s what it would be for a while now, I’ve only just started to feel a sense of stability. Now that it’s on paper, in black and white, with my signature and the department’s […]
Infinite productivity
In linguistics, we speak of the human’s ability of infinite productivity in our language. You take a fixed number of rules to create sentences, and we are able to create an infinite number of unique sentences. I was thinking about … Continue reading →
Birds and Bird-Watchers at Kissena Park and Queens College
Like a sloth swimming in a river, I began ornithology all by myself, walking through Kissena Park on a sunny fall day. And in the same way that a mother bird may nurture a young golf ball, a group of ornithologists took me under their wing, my binoculars being an emblem of universal love. Though […]
No Pain. No Gain.
My friend, W.R., is creating his own collection of clothing and shoes for his senior project at Queens College! I’m so proud of him. Not to indulge too much about his work, I’ll tell you that his high heel shoes are heel-LESS. Yes, he actually took apart heels of high heel shoes (not the puny […]
