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I signed up for the GRE!

I did it! I just registered for the GRE. It’s on March 5th, for those of you who want to send me a care package and a timely “good luck!” text.

I’m having one of those days that is so absolutely filled with hope and majesty. I’m overwhelmed by how blessed I am and all the opportunities that have come my way. I never thought I’d have the opportunity to go back to school, let alone find a field that I’d be so madly passionate about.

Will come back to this later, but now I need to figure out how to finish my 5lb Manhattan Prep book in just over 3 months. HERE WE GO!!

I've spent my life inheriting dreams from you.

"Paciencia y Fe”, In The Heights

#in the heights #pacencia y fe #people of color #latin american experience #asian american experience

washingtonpost

No one should mention pizza unless there is pizza to share.

Overheard at The Washington Post (via washingtonpost)

If Trump were to see this country for the entirety of its history and not just the cultural memory he idealizes, he would see that our nation has a long history with migrants, racial violence and discrimination. The sad truth is, none of what Donald Trump is saying is novel. Many live in a privileged fog that allows for this romantic nation to exist. In this nostalgic version of America, one without centuries of discrimination and violence, the poor and disadvantaged become labeled as "lazy" instead of victims of centuries of systematic discrimination, im/migrants become "rapists" and "drug dealers" instead of parents desperate to give their families a fighting chance at educational and financial opportunity.

Esther Suh, “The Racist Nostalgia Behind “Mak[ing] America Great Again”

#huffingtonpost #huffpo impact #make america #make america racist again #donald trump #donald duck #racial discrimination #racial prejudice #staywoke #stay woke

micdotcom

Samantha Bee sees your all-male late night photo and raises you this

Conan, Bill, Stephen and two Jimmys. There’s no doubt that the people who give us our last laugh before heading to bed all have one thing in common, as shown in this October Vanity Fair photograph. They’re men. Vanity Fair forgot at least two women in late night, and Samantha Bee is letting ‘em know.

Morning Routines

- shower - moisturized with essence, lotion, and spf 30 (courtesy of cc cream) - hair product for volume/curl definition Bonus round: - morning run - eyeliner and eye shadow

When the Ben Carson campaign follows you on Twitter. I definitely do want Charles Blow to interview him though. Carson is the least looney in the Conservative clown car and deserves more press on his medical feats. That being said, none of this means I'll be voting for him. Biden, I'm waiting for you. Follow me on Twitter for more lulz @esthersuh

Change in Expectations

In the midst of my career transition, one of the biggest learning curves and changes has been my conversations with my dad. For as long as I can remember, my conversations with my dad have been goal and career oriented.That’s one of the things I love about my dad, we are both dreamers who are goal oriented and love moving towards a dream.

In starting my new chapter as a freelancer and pursuing my career as a writer/content creator, the future is now uncertain. For the first time in my life, I do not have a career plan. Even as a child, the goals were clear: move from 4th grade to 5th grade, get into the advanced 10th grade English class, etc. But now that I’m pursuing a new and unpredictable path, there’s not much to plan or look forward to other than to put one foot in front of the other, type one word after another, and aggressively look for opportunities to put my work forward.

An immediate consequence of this transition has been the change in conversation between me and my dad. With the prospect of business school on the back burner and the future looking more like a blank slate, open to possibility, our conversations have taken an interesting turn.

More and more our conversations turn to the prospect of marriage, motherhood, and how serious things are with my s/o. While these topics have made its way into our previous conversations, it seems that with the next few months, perhaps even the next year, looking uncertain, marriage and child rearing seem to be my only available options.

Our most recent call was on Saturday evening and I was immediately reminded of the series of pieces written about the different expectations men have in their wives and daughters. At what point did I jump the fence from being seen as someone who has endless potential to someone who is wife-bound? Is it my age or simply the career change that has confirmed my potential?

I love my dad, he is a decent and kind man who loves me. I know he is worried about my future and that at the end of the day, he wants me to be happy, but conversations like this remind me that even my wonderful dad may not be immune from the startling expectations of femininity and glass ceilings men place on the women in their lives.

#glass ceiling #womens rights #daughters #careerchange #leanin #bamboo ceiling #tiger parents

Hello, Old Friend

I think this is the first time I’ve been on my Tumblr since college. I remember forcing myself to break the habit of being absolutely addicted to Tumblr because it was distracting me from school. Somewhere along the line, I also told myself that it was a reflection of my lack of discipline and that social media was the equivalent of slacking and that I should focus my efforts on achieving a more quantitative passion/career.

Fast forward two years and I’m unemployed and adamant about writing full time. It feels so weird to look back through my posts: it’s like going into a time machine and seeing who I was in college.

Reading back on my posts, I’m seeing how uncensored, passionate, and unapologetic I was.

I’m going to update this Tumblr account at least once a week. I’m also working on creating a blog that will have more media/news content than this account, which is more personal, obviously.

Thank you to all my followers that are still around! It’s more encouraging than you can believe!

#myasianamericanstory #bloggingfun #writersblock #careerchange

I love Smith College <3 #illuminations (Taken with instagram)

#illuminations

Sometimes I think I moved into the city not because it's closer to my internship but because I just needed to get the hell out of Long Island.

I am in love with Upper Harlem and I'm so happy I'll be here till August. I'm over the midtown experience, I love my nice quiet brownstone.

Overheard at the market

Yo man, you try that soymilk shit? That some good shit. Cus the brother can't handle dairy, na'am saying?

#i love eavesdropping

shortformblog

I’m (expletive deleted) starving.

Celebrity chef Mario Batali • Discussing the diet he’s currently on — he’s eating like he’s on food stamps (an average of $1.48 per meal, or $31 per week) in protest of potential cuts to the federal food stamps program. His family was nice enough to join him in what he calls a conversation starter about being hungry in the U.S. Unlike most people on food stamps, he knows ways to make the best of a bad situation, smartly sticking to foods like lentils, apples, rice, beans, peanut butter and jelly. But the problem is, eating good on a diet like this is tough, so many do not. Think his family’s experiment will be effective? (via shortformblog)

I think this is they key argument for those who think that poor people could eat better if they just tried harder. This guy prepares food for a living and he still cannot manage to do this without feeling like he’s going hungry. This is a problem.

(via killsmedead)