Week 60: Is This It?

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…

Week 58: Research on 99

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…

Week 57: Ramadan Regression

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…

Week 56: Summertime Madness

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…

Week 55: Movements

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…

Week 54: Learning 2.0

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…

Week 53: Am I an Adult?

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…

Week 52: A Genre Onto Itself

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…

Week 51: Exit

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 🙂

Week 50: Kids

어린이날 has come and gone. Do you remember how I said 어학당 often treated us like children? Well on the national holiday for children, we got off from school. Go figure. But I guess this is an ample time to explain the background for such…