Category: watson
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i landed in são paulo and *boy* does time move different
i landed in são paulo and *boy* does time move different time in europe is always slipping away. always chasing always being chased. i did not float but rush. it was winter when i left. i got used to the cold and could bare my…
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the non-caterpillar non-butterfly filling a cocoon is liquid.
the non-caterpillar non-butterfly filling a cocoon is liquid. a caterpillar, once wrapped in a cocoon, will begin to self-digest releasing enzymes that turn it into liquid. in this formless soup, there are cells called imaginal discs that contain the way of the butterfly in them.…
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paris is purring | part 1
i wake up feeling like shit. so i decide to do what any other sane faggot would do in my situation: go to a ball***. (*** By ball I do not mean ballroom, which is a very specific and important scene of black queer culture…
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seoul bent the knee
i can feel it about to rain. is this the korean monsoon season? its really not as bad as that one seoulite from school described it. i thought the train stations would be flooding and walking would be battling through unrelenting sheets of water. i…
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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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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…
