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I selected colleges to apply to without ever visiting most of them. I even decided which one to attend without visiting the ones that accepted me. Looking back, I was pretty lucky that I ended up with a good experience. For The Daughter, college visits were a critical part of the selection process. For Number One Son, high school visits, a formal process known as shadowing, were just as critical. In this installment of the College Admissions Game, we take a look at the school visit.
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It seems like a terrible case of déjà vu but the breaking news out of Virginia Tech is that an intense search is underway for a gunman (described as a “white male wearing gray sweat pants, a gray hat with a neon green brim, a maroon hoodie and backpack”) who shot and killed two people — a campus police officer and a student. Authorities have ordered students and staff to stay indoors and secure themselves until the shooter is found. 8Asians isn’t a breaking a news site, and ordinarily we don’t post about things when they aren’t about Asians, but we still remember the day of the Virginia Tech massacre when the news broke of a gunman– described as an Asian male and re-reading the original post and comments is a reminder of what a gut-wrenching day April 16, 2007 was for our readers. [h/t: John]
Veena Malik, a Pakistani actress and comedian who is considered a feminist figure and household name in her country, is suing FHM India magazine for £1.27 million for its December cover photo of her, which she alleges was morphed and doctored to make her look nude. FHM India insists that it has a behind-the-scenes video of the photo shoot that would prove her allegations false, but has decided “not to make that video public because of the nature of the video.” The magazine images featuring Malik tattooed with the acronym “ISI” referring to Pakistan’s spy agency “Inter-Services Intelligence,” have been called a “shame for all Muslims” particularly in the context of the military rivalry between Pakistan and India.
Have you done your own original research in any field relating to Asian American Studies? Would you like the chance to win $300 for it? Are you able to travel to Philadelphia? If so, then consider submitting your work to Faces of Asian America: The First Undergraduate Research Forum on Asian American Studies. The Forum will be on March 17, 2012, on-campus at the University of Pennsylvania. The keynote speaker will be Elaine Kim.
From USA Today: “Amy Tan’s first published fiction in six years is a 42-page story titled Rules for Virgins, which she calls ‘a long short story.’ Tan’s story, released today (Monday), is available for $2.99 from several online outlets: the Amazon Kindle Singles store, BarnesAndNoble.com, and as a Quick Read in Apple’s iBook store and the Google eBookstore. Tan, 59, who’s best known for her 1989 debut novel The Joy Luck Club, says her experimental in digital publishing was prompted by a friend, Walter Kirn, the novelist and critic, who’s Byliner’s fiction editor.”
My first post on Glenn and Maggie’s “one night stand” on AMC’s The Walking Dead was a bit tongue in cheek, kind of stating that the only way an Asian American man could “get” a white woman was if we lived in a post-apocalyptic zombie filled world.
In the past few episodes, we’ve seen Maggie really starting to fall for Glenn. In Episode 6 (Season 2), after Glenn saves Maggie from a “walker” (zombie) after another trip to the pharmacy where they first “did it,” Maggie expresses her concerns and feelings for him. Maggie explains that Glenn is the under-appreciated risk taker and unrecognized contributor of their group of survivalists. This statement could be mirrored I think how a lot of Asian American men and women feel in the workplace.
Pandas are among the cutest animals in the world (next to, of course, kittens, koalas, and shiba inu puppies). They sneeze and scare their mothers, eat bamboo, and…oh my gosh, is that a panda on the offensive? Discover a new side to pandas with this “When Pandas Attack” T-Shirt ($24). Just be warned: angry pandas take a lot more bamboo to calm down.
Via the National Review: “Dr. Sunita Puri [...] who practices in the Bay Area, wanted to find out why so many immigrant Indian women in the United States were so eager to find out the sex of their unborn children, and why so many of them choose abortion when they found out they were carrying a girl. What she discovered over the course of 65 interviews conducted over several years profoundly shocked her. Fully 89 percent of the women carrying girls opted for an abortion, and nearly half had previously aborted girls,” a statistic that is sad, but not surprising given the bias for boys in Asian families.
Congratulations are in order for 17 year old Angela Zhang for winning the coveted $100,000 scholarship in the annual high school science competition put on by the Siemen’s Foundation. The high school student was inspired by the passing of her grandfather and designed research for a particle that would help cure cancer.
I was on my way to pick up Number Two Son from school when I noticed that traffic was slowing ahead. At a large intersection, I saw that the police had blocked off the left turn lane going to the post office near my house. Other approaches to the Post Office were also blocked off by police.
As I found out later, a man in a gas mask and what appeared to be body armor dropped off a package in the post office, and his suspicious outfit triggered a Bomb Scare.
A new research project is being done over at Western Michigan University on the lived experience of students (undergrad and grad) who self-identify as both Asian American and lesbian, gay or bisexual. The project is hoping to capture the diversity of experiences and interviews are going to be conducted via email (so logistically a bit simpler). The requirements are that you identify as being of Asian descent and LGB; are currently enrolled in a degree-seeking program at any level of higher ed; and were born in the U.S. or immigrated by the age of 10. If you fit the bill and are interested or have questions, contact Dr. Donna Talbot at donna.talbot[at]wmich.edu.
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