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I’m sitting at Gate 29 at Oakland Airport, pondering one of life’s biggest mysteries: Why is packing so hard? Why do I, faced with eleven T-shirts, three pairs of jeans, and six variations on the same flannel, waste time waffling between countless permutations before inevitably defaulting to my tried-and-true favorites? Why do I always brush
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On a Tuesday in July, Frankie brought change in a cardboard box. He boarded the 7:10am Daly City train and settled in for his daily commute: in his lap, six red Solo cups full of soil and saplings; in his backpack, a Zip-Loc bag hosting a summer’s worth of Buena Mulata peppers. At 8:04am, he
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It’s another quick post for today – I don’t know what it is about this week, but I’ve been dealing with different health problems every day! First it was the stomach pain on Tuesday, and now it’s a sore throat and nausea on Wednesday. Last I tested, I was negative for COVID, but jeez, I
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Originally posted on Pop Excellence: Welcome back to Day 3 of this massive project that was worth it in the end, because the results have been pretty great and are about to get even better! If you’ve made it to this point, you’re probably already caught up on the previous two days’ posts, but if…
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Originally posted on Pop Excellence: Welcome back to Day 2 of the K-pop music nerds takeover! If you missed yesterday’s post, where I introduced the project and explained how this list was put together, you can check it out at the link below. Intro and Honorable Mentions | 20-11 | 10-1 | Individual Ballots |…
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Well, this marks the end of my third week! I have to say, as fun as it’s been, I’m just about ready to wrap this month up. I just found out that I’ll be moving in with my partner in March (exciting!) and need to do a lot of packing and prep work (less exciting!),
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The moment I saw my friend’s suggestion in my inbox, I knew I needed to prepare myself: “Huge emphasis on the dumpy 🍑” To be frank, this theme raised my blood pressure. I’ve never felt confident about my body – for most of my life, bad experiences in P.E. and team sports deterred me from
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Here’s something about working with high schoolers that I never expected; I find myself constantly thinking back to the people I wanted to be as a teenager, and wondering how all of those alternate selves could have turned out. What if 13-year-old Mo had told his parents that instead of moving to Seoul, he wanted
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Why is it that I love ships so much? There are so many reasons. Ships, from the ocean liners of yesteryear to the cruise ships of today, are marvels of engineering and design: giant floating hotels that can accommodate thousands of people across the seas. (Cruises are also shockingly cheap sometimes – and as a
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To survive academia, you need ease: the ability to walk through any place, whether a house party or a cocktail reception, with the conviction that you belong and you know how things are supposed to work. Ease may be a product of education, but it’s also a product of wealth, and just as its etymology
Mo Kim
Teacher/advisor, writer, and lifelong learner – figuring it out one adventure at a time!
Mo Kim 