Author: darseaclouds
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I don’t look (south) korean
i don’t look (south) korean. after breezing through customs with only a couple bows and not a single word exchanged, i get my train ticket and takeoff to seoul. there are five people on the train with me, and every one of them has porcelain…
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stuck in atl | leaving home part 2
the first thing i did when i realized all hotel rooms in atlanta were booked out was find a plug. i looked up from an endless screen of sold out motels to a yellow vested guy sat scrolling through his phone. ‘are you from atlanta?’…
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crowdstrike failure leaves me down atrocious | leaving home part 1
i wake up at 430am to catch my flight out of Baltimore. The clouds are still shadows in the sky. I hug mommy goodbye at the terminal and watch her drive away through the sliding glass doors. All the delta counters were down when i…
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Baccalaureate Speech
I gave this speech for my Baccalaureate Graduation ceremony at Wellesley College. When I first came to Wellesley 4 years ago, I felt callouses forming at the corners of my heart. The parts that rubbed up against the anger and pain and violence that breathes…
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Watson Application
My personal statement for the Watson Fellowship Application. As with all applications, my voice and style and messaging are keenly aware of its audience… I grew up in a community of Korean and Hispanic immigrants. Store signs and conversations were rarely in English. Still, I…
