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Starting school at UW tomorrow! Go #Huskies

tl;dr- this is 2 hours late

I don't know why I decided to wake up at 8 am yesterday morning, on a solid 4.5 hours of sleep, to help a bunch of tree huggers dig out blackberry plants and pass heavy buckets of mulch down a hillside park no one gives a rat's tail about anyway, only to find myself still up at 1:30am, frantically scribbling away at my homework that I had the entire weekend to do.

But there is one thing I do know. I know that yesterday was the day where we commemorate a man who changed the lives of millions as he fought tooth and nail to bring justice to an oppressed people, a man who accomplished more with peace and love than most could dream to do with guns, germs and steel, a man whose humility and altruism inspires nobodies like me to run out of my cozy dorm on a chilly Monday morning and help restore an urban forest park. Sure, it's not like uprooting a few invasive species or passing a few buckets of dirt is going to save the planet or anything. But if there's one thing the Reverend Martin Luther King, Junior has shown, it's that giving back is giving back, period, whether it's to your family or friends, community or country. Everything counts, no matter how insignificant, and even though I might never change the world like MLK did, that doesn't stop my from feeling an obligation to honor his memory by giving back, just as he did, with UW Earth Club, volunteering for Earth Core, on this sunny day in Seattle. For lack of something better to say, Happy MLK day everyone.

The pep talk i didnt know i needed. 🥺

What is it like to have perfect pitch?

Answer: It's actually pretty boring. If you play a note on the piano I can tell you what it is. If you told me to sing the note G I might be off, but if you sang the note G and asked me what it was, I would be able to correctly identify it. Basically nobody cares about this skill except my mother, who thinks I am very talented even though I haven't played music since I was twelve. 

400th Quora answer!  Yay

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The One About Trader Joe's Chili Spiced Dried Mango

A Reflection on Life, Love, and the Universe

The abridged version of this piece that I hastily submitted to the (No) Regrets Vocal Media challenge

Listen up Jay-Z, this Muslim woman’s got something to say to you.

It's ironic how feminist pop icons sometimes have to objectify themselves to spread their message. Then again, I don't suppose there's a more effective way to spread the Gospel of Gender Equality to as many people as possible... 

https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLL77IVn4yixWDfSq9uXP2xT-Qxab2xpOb

UW’s Got Talent 2015, a talent show organized by UW’s Operation Smile chapter.

Coldplay- The Scientist

The Baklava Dude

There is the joy of eating food, and there is the joy of gifting food.

Wrote this piece in a hurry for Vocal Media’s The Perfect Pair challenge. It got removed from the challenge a couple hours after being accepted as a story, but oh well. I wanted to write about one of my quirks that I picked up in college. 

2013 World Population Map by Seven Billions