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I kid you not, I spent the last two days nerding it up in Taipei’s National Central Library, flipping though Shih-Jung Tzeng’s Oxford-published PhD thesis, From Honto Jin to Bensheng Ren: The Origin and Development of Taiwanese National Consciousness. Why? The 361-pager studies the diaries of two Taiwanese literary figures, one being my great-grandfather, Wu [...]
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What version of the UC Berkeley protests would you like? AP, SFGate, or The Daily Cal? For those with an aversion to text, here’s raw footage: and more raw footage… The catalyst to the havoc? The UC board approved a 32% increase in undergraduate fees yesterday. (Details here.) (Cal students also want the reinstatement of [...]
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Aquent was tabling at the Creative Confab yesterday, so I grabbed a copy of the AIGA | Aquent Survey of Design Salaries in 2008, and there was actually some pretty helpful information inside that I thought I’d share. Here are my favorite essays transcribed just for you: Trust your instincts “Before you choose a firm, [...]
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Remember marking up every single book you didn’t check out from the library for high school AP English? College killed the art of annotating, and social media murdered print. I know people who refuse to pick up a physical magazine these days, so I’m annotating this week’s BusinessWeek cover story for you, because it’s important. [...]
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My sister had always wanted a dog, but my dad strictly enforced a “no pets” rule because I once had a kitten, we were all allergic, we gave the kitten away, and I cried myself to sleep for days. But my sister was a smart kid and scooped a cup of tiny brine shrimp from [...]
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What does country sweetheart, Taylor Swift, and pop & fashion icon, Lady Gaga, have in common? The Taiwanese love them two more than their own pearl milk tea. How do I know this? I went KTVing last night with eight other colleagues, and those two artists pretty much took up the first page of “most [...]
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I keep putting off writing a college reflections post for the same reason Carl Fredricksen is unwilling to let go of his house and his memories of Ellie. In much the same way, I’m reluctant to write these last few pages of a college chapter for fear of facing new blank pages—a tabula rasa; yet [...]
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For the past few weeks, I’ve desperately wanted to move to another place, another studio, another shared apartment—anywhere but home. I want to stay here in Berkeley for the clubs that have been an integral part of my college experience, the guest appearances by names like Toyo Ito and Steven Holl, the friends who have [...]
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What’s In It for Architecture?
by Serena Wu on January 22, 2010
The day before I left for New York, I was invited to AIA East Bay‘s Emeritus meeting, since they were discussing the needs of under-employed emerging professionals and possibly forming a mentor/workshop program to keep us afloat. “What will happen [to the architecture industry] if three to five years of emerging professionals are gone?” Just [...]
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