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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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  • Our Favorite K-pop Singles of 2022: 1-10

    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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  • Our Favorite K-pop Singles of 2022: 11-20

    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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  • February Fashion Challenge, Day 21: Earning my stripes

    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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  • February Fashion Challenge, Day 20: Into the thicc of it

    The moment I saw my friend’s suggestion in my inbox, I knew I needed to prepare myself: “Huge emphasis on the dumpy ๐Ÿ‘” 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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  • February Fashion Challenge, Days 18-19: Sk8er Boi and the Multiverse of Madness

    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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  • February Fashion Challenge, Day 17: All aboard!

    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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  • February Fashion Challenge, Day 16: Reflections on academia (what, like it’s hard?)

    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…

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  • February Fashion Challenge, Day 15: Life in (pastel) color

    While I’m still having plenty of fun with this challenge, I’m officially past the halfway point – and the honeymoon phase is decidedly over. Some of the themes I have left still make me scratch my head, wondering how I’ll manage to pull them off (if you have ideas for Viking Day, please let me…

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  • February Fashion Challenge, Day 14: For Jason

    For Valentine’s Day, I’d like to do something different – because today’s outfit isn’t about a theme. It’s about a person. I first met Jason at a hole-in-the-wall Korean place, where we sipped bori-cha, gingerly offered each other bites of japchae and soondubu, and exchanged brief snippets of our career and life histories. I had…

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