August 2010
12 posts
Anonymous asked: Do you believe in a group of good friends or a best friend? Do you have one?
Anonymous asked: College admission officers do seldom read CollegeConfidential and stumble upon your blog. Be careful about how you express your thoughts on the Internet, Mr. Wu.
Meaning to Life
Note: This post stayed in my drafts for about two weeks because hell if I know what the meaning to life is. Here’s what I’ve gotten so far.
So I’ve realized that trying to record dreams in the morning is pretty much like trying to get up in the morning: near impossible during the summer. This isn’t helped by the fact that my subconscious is a smart-ass and keeps sending...
On Being Content
I’m tired of it. Needless to say, I feel blessed to be sitting in Pleasanton, far from oppression, hunger, terrorism, war. But really, feeling like the only risk I’ve taken all day is deciding to have week old takeout isn’t much fun either. Sometimes, like tonight, I feel like I’ve taken a step outside of our provincial high school world and realized just how small of a box...
Important note to self.
Before letting parents read own Tumblr, hide all posts relating to inappropriate topics and/or their Asian-ness.
College Essays
This could qualify for a rant. I hate stupid college essay prompts, with emphasis on stupid. Really Columbia? The only question you have to ask us is what we like about you? Why not just ask how much we’re willing to kiss your ass? It’s more to the point than hiding your arrogance behind a supposedly standard prompt. What’s the point in asking what students like about you? All...
Dream: August 5th, 2010
Today I realized that trying to record dreams is extremely hard during the summer. I woke up at 8:00, considered typing out a dream, and fell asleep. Then I woke up at 9:30, considered it again, and fell asleep. Finally, I woke up at 11:00 and decided to salvage what I could.
I distinctly remember visiting uPenn. It was a little bit like when Ellen Page wandered around the French(?) town dream....
denying-ephemerality asked: I really love your blog. It gives me something insightful to read through whenever I stumble upon it on tumblr. Keep it up(:
Dream: August 4th, 2010
This is the first dream I’ve had during the summer of going back to school, and also a pretty good dream to start my project on, in my opinion. I’ll start now.
There was a shoot out in the school yard, and I vaguely remember several cars being smashed apart in the quad. I personally manned a water hose. I’m pretty sure my subconscious is as anxious as my conscious about next...
Dream Project
Every morning before I get out of bed, I turn on my iPod and go through Facebook, Tumblr, e-mails, etc. It gives me a little longer to lay there, and I can tell myself I’m being productive. Last night, I decided that well, I will be productive. I’ve heard that a person forgets 90% of dreams within a minute of waking up. I’m also a believer in that dreams reveal the subconscious...
Prop 8
I’m probably going to get flamed for this but I’d rather broaden the freedoms of a minority at the expense of majority satisfaction, except in cases like the French Revolution, in which “freedom” is just masked oppression.
Self-perception
Okay, I seriously threw off my sleeping schedule. I tried sleeping early, around 11, and have been waking up every hour. No more naps on Bart. Or during work. Or on Bart after work.
Does everyone wonder why we were put into the body that we’re in? Why is it that my mentality, maybe a better word would be soul, controls this body? Why this body out of the six billion bodies in the world, or...
