Most of my gap year took place in South Korea thanks to the auspices of the Richard U. Light Foundation. Seoul became my home for a year but the rest of country held a bounty of adventures.
Holy crap, my final week in Korea. Obviously there was food and tons of it that might have actually been too much but like come on, it’s so good. Yeah, I am definitely going to miss that. My week was also spent saying farewell to…
Hope you enjoyed the word play. Jeremy signed us for a little frisbee gathering (aka a Hat Tournament for the more frisbee-literate) out in 대전 (Daejeon), which is a super beautiful city with wide blue skies and mountains enclosing it. Just look at the scene…
So I finished up research for my seminar and truly worked my butt of trying to read as many papers and abstracts as I possibly could to synthesize a comprehensive report on the merits of oxytocin as an autism treatment model. Below, you’ll find a link…
So this week was supposed to be pretty different but it actually did not seem to turn that way. For the first time since I was nine, I actively chose not to participate in the Ramadan fast. Most folks will recognize it as the holy…
For my autism seminar, I have decided to focus on oxytocin. Some of you may know it as the “love hormone”. It actually was the first hormone to be synthesized. It plays a role in the positive feedback of labor by inducing uterine contractions and…
Movements were pretty big things this weekend. One of the nice things I love about the English language is the fluidity and adaptability of certain words. Movement happens to be one of those words. 광주 (Gwangju) probably best represents the sociopolitical connotations of that word…
So I started my online seminar on autism through Yale Summer Session. The layout of the course seems pretty nice and not overly stressful and hopefully I can get a lot done with it. I have messed around with a few online courses here and…
I am going to make this brief. I got a letter from the immigration office summoning me to a meeting to discuss my visa status. I could only note my somewhat illogical reaction: My inner questioning of my evolution into an adult. I did not…
I want to talk to you about an anime that really changed my views on the world when I was like 6 and again now. Of course, I am talking about none other than the timeless and all-time great “Cowboy Bebop” directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, written…
FREEDOM FROM THE OPPRESSION OF LANGUAGE SCHOOL, THE TYRANNY OF REPETITION, THE SPECTERS OF PRESENTATIONS. FREE AT LAST. FREE AT LAST. LORD ALMIGHTY, I’M FREE AT LAST. Yeah, this was a nice week 🙂