Here's what I recommend to every person about to graduate: Reach out to the professor you've always wanted to meet but never had the chance to! Take the opportunity to get to know them before you step out of the school gates — we underestimate how readily accessible professors are while we're still students. Only … Continue reading Conversations with Three Harvard University Presidents
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My Senior Thesis: Sinofuturism
LIFE UPDATE since Graduation pt. 1 and 24th: Only now as I type, whilst listening to Jay Chou's newest album, do I realize that for the first time ever I'm living by myself (truly, completely, indisputably--no roommates and no family). Today marks one full month since I started work. Hello, adulting. 🍀 *** At the … Continue reading My Senior Thesis: Sinofuturism
Squid Game Thoughts: the dystopian island
Soundtrack: Still Fighting It by Ben Folds + the Squid Game version of Fly Me to The Moon by Joo Won I binge-watched Squid Game in less than a day. Apart from what everyone else has written on (class inequality, debt, the lost generation, critique of capitalism, EAT THE RICH), which I have little more … Continue reading Squid Game Thoughts: the dystopian island
Movie Review: Blind Mountain《盲山》(2007)
There are two endings to Blind Mountain. In the censored Mainland Chinese version, the police comes and rescues the female protagonist from her rural prison. In the version for international release, which is the one I watched, the girl grabs the knife closest to her and, in a climactic eruption of violence, stabs her "husband" … Continue reading Movie Review: Blind Mountain《盲山》(2007)
SWF 2020: 刘慈欣谈科学与幻想的无限可能
Back in my sophomore year, for a class on global fictions, I read Liu Cixin's The Three Body Problem and even ended up writing a paper on it: Reimagining Communities: Hospitality in The Reluctant Fundamentalist vs. The Three-Body Problem. That was my first foray into hard sci-fi. Quite stunning. Yesterday, at noon, I watched him speak at the … Continue reading SWF 2020: 刘慈欣谈科学与幻想的无限可能
Selina Xu 