1100 Woken up by phone call from my parents. Super psyched, because they've been ignoring me all week...seriously why am I the one sending texts like "hi guys, i know you're really busy and having a lot of fun but please call me! i haven't heard from you in ages"? Oh well. Needy tiger cub can't survive on her own.
1200 Brunch with roommates. I make weird concoctions out of oatmeal, fibery cereal, and peanut butter while I crank out writing assignments for Expository Writing class. The final project is an open-ended research paper, and I have no idea what I'm doing. It's great for productivity, though; I'm getting all my other mini-assignments done out of procrastination.
1300 Typing this as I prepare to leave brunch. Overheard from the kids sitting next to me, who are ubiquitously dressed in red shorts, collared shirts, vineyard vines belts and boat shoes: "Guys, there's a difference between mainstream and popular." I'm lol'ing. Please, tell me more about how you listened to Wiz Khalifa before he was cool.
1400 Time to get pumped for Yardfest! Like all other Harvard students, I get ready for big social events with soft drinks and board games.
1700 Ditching the concert to hang out with tiger mom, who is in town getting an award. Prudent decision? Debatable, but I love seeing the family :) Plus, it's the Cataracs this year, which is nice, but we had Far East Movement last year and there's only so many times I need to hear "Like a G6" live.
2200 Finally home! The event was "Literary Lights," a black-tie gala at the Boston Public Library. I'll be honest -- one first world problem I have with my uber-privileged upbringing is that I don't naturally get to be the underdog very often. So, although I try to seek out those situations -- by speaking up in my smart-Harvard-male-dominated foreign policy class, for example -- it's still a culture shock when I fall into them. Tonight, I really felt like I had landed in a scene from Age of Innocence. Everyone was so charming and witty and elegant, and I was Scrappy McScrapperson, totally ignorant of the workings of this social network, armed with nothing but a handshake and "Sophia, pleasure to meet you." But you are who you are, right? Rule #1 of being a tiger cub: no shame. It was fun and, as windows into other worlds always are, a learning experience.
2300 Posting. So meta
1200 Brunch with roommates. I make weird concoctions out of oatmeal, fibery cereal, and peanut butter while I crank out writing assignments for Expository Writing class. The final project is an open-ended research paper, and I have no idea what I'm doing. It's great for productivity, though; I'm getting all my other mini-assignments done out of procrastination.
1300 Typing this as I prepare to leave brunch. Overheard from the kids sitting next to me, who are ubiquitously dressed in red shorts, collared shirts, vineyard vines belts and boat shoes: "Guys, there's a difference between mainstream and popular." I'm lol'ing. Please, tell me more about how you listened to Wiz Khalifa before he was cool.
1400 Time to get pumped for Yardfest! Like all other Harvard students, I get ready for big social events with soft drinks and board games.
2200 Finally home! The event was "Literary Lights," a black-tie gala at the Boston Public Library. I'll be honest -- one first world problem I have with my uber-privileged upbringing is that I don't naturally get to be the underdog very often. So, although I try to seek out those situations -- by speaking up in my smart-Harvard-male-dominated foreign policy class, for example -- it's still a culture shock when I fall into them. Tonight, I really felt like I had landed in a scene from Age of Innocence. Everyone was so charming and witty and elegant, and I was Scrappy McScrapperson, totally ignorant of the workings of this social network, armed with nothing but a handshake and "Sophia, pleasure to meet you." But you are who you are, right? Rule #1 of being a tiger cub: no shame. It was fun and, as windows into other worlds always are, a learning experience.
2300 Posting. So meta
did you get highlights?
ReplyDeleteYOU HAVE TO TELL US WHERE YOU SHOP :O
ReplyDeletekthxbai :)
I'm not kidding though, all your outfits are absolutely fantastic and I'm so super jealous. Enlighten us lesser beings! :P
LOL at the Scrappy McSpraperson reference. Loving these Sophia!
ReplyDeleteLove your new theme you're trying out and your shorts in the picture!
ReplyDeleteI love seeing your pictures... You look very happy.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy this life.
Every moment of it.
Guys, I am starting to think that either Sophia is extremely efficient or they don't give them enough homework at Harvard. I doubt about the latter, but if the former is true, that means she's WAY ahead in her school work, as in, she's already finished doing and taking notes for all the readings for the entire semester and can now afford to just noodle around town whenever she pleases.
ReplyDeleteI guess that's highly plausible. After all, her mom did say she has "exceptional powers of concentration", so it wouldn't be surprising that she just "powers through" all work in one shot like a searing-hot knife through butter. No wonder her mom freely calls her "Soso", because Sophia is so exceptional that calling her a so-so makes everyone's stomachs implode from laughter. Nothing but gutted corpses are left lying around after that bomb.
Hi Sophia :)
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to let you know that ever since I read about you, I have respected you. But reading your blog, I have started to feel inspired by you. No mountain is too steep to climb. You just have to concentrate, get down and do the work, and fit your social life in between :)
I've been feeling overwhelmed by college work and I'm-not-good-enough feelings lately, so your "day in the life of" posts really speak to me.
I'm definitely reading too much into them. You maybe never really intended for this to happen. But thank you all the same! xoxo
I absolutely love your highlights and wavy hair!! Let us know how your final research paper writing goes! best of luck as always and xoxo
ReplyDeleteCan you tell us about your fitness regime? You look great!
ReplyDeleteI agree with the people above and wanna know more about your fitness regime! What kind of ab exercises do you do and how many?
ReplyDeleteNot to over-analyze or whatever, but why does it matter that you speak up in a *male-dominated* class? Seemed like a strange detail for you to include, partially because I've never thought of foreign policy as being a subject that skews to one gender over the other, but mostly because it kind of hints that you feel intimidated or pushed to certain gender roles or something like that. I mean, from everything else you've written you're obviously a very confident, stereotype-defying person, but that's just why this mention seemed so unusual for you.
ReplyDeleteI hope all these praises don't ever make you feel complacent.
ReplyDeleteI didn't want the last comment on this post to be negative ... the complacent thing makes me angry / sad. So here goes - lots of people enjoy your blog!
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sophia, your abs are so perfect it's unreal. yup, definitely hottest girl at harvard ;) do you eat salads most of the time in addition to working out or do you treat yourself to desserts and pizza sometimes too? i think i need to change my diet to yours lol!
ReplyDeleteI'm writing an open-ended paper for a class too, and I'm writing about Asian stereotypes, how they arose, and how they are misconstrued by Westerners--your mom's book is one of my primary sources :P
ReplyDeleteI'm roughly your age and I was raised in a torn house hold. No one ever made me stick to anything I did and to this day when I ask my mother why, she says because I would complain and whine. Reading your moms book has opened up a new perspective for me and I love it to bits and pieces . you and your sister have turned out wonderfully . I really hope I can raise my kids with some of the same values of never accepting failure
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