It's not that we are so timid and being over-protective of ourselves. Humans do have fear for losing their lives. I once told my friends if 2012 is the end of World. I would not be afraid to die , because , I would only be happy that I am alive because of people who I love and who love me are still alive. If they don't exist in this world. Then it's pointless for me to being alive. Then I thought about the movie I am Legend, if I were will smith, I wouldn't be able to survive. How terrified I would be if I found out no one else i know are still alive. For now, I think I still want to happily stay in this world to not to miss any thing awesome happening in my friends and relatives' lives.
NYC is filled with police cars and dogs these days. 911 must be unforgettable in lots of people's memories. I was 10 when it happened. I was at home sitting in front of TV with my grandma. I didn't really feel anything back then and probably had no clue what was going on then. Now I only have memories left both for my grandma and 911. Grandma passed away five years ago. I didn't cry when she passed away. I didn't realize she is gone just like I didn't know what was going on during 911 . How traumatize it was for those people who were on the plane and in the building and their family. It's weird. Grandma is my favorite person in the world I can say . I never felt she passed away. I have dreams about her from time to time. Of course she never comes back in real life. But I miss her just like I miss someone that is far away from me. It feels like she is just in an other country that's hard to travel back to visit me. But she is still there. I never never felt she passed away. Many times, I have the image in my head she is talking to me.
I don't like talking about death. So I will stop here and say some things about life in NYC!
Wow, I am living in a city again! Twin cities are not really cities compare to NYC or any considered a medium sized city in China.. So now , finally, I feel like I am in a city!
First of all, some complaints about NYC: Streets are so dirty. Subways in big cities are never good. Steamy and stuffiness! Buildings are old except for skyscrapers. housing is so ridiculously expensive. I can pay for three months rent in MN while I can only pay for one month in NYC.. !
But other than that, everything is fantastic! Classes are super interesting , same problem again! No matter you are in a small college or a big univeristy, you always run into issues like choosing which class to take! There are so many great courses taught by excellent professors. I don't know which one to drop! So far I have design studio , building in New York( super fun class, talking about history,planning and preservation of NYC neighborhood. The professor is said to be the person who knows every single block of NYC... really amazing!) , fundamentals of digital design ( cool computer rendering stuff.. ) , History of American cities. and possibly Exalted structure ( structure engineering on skyscrapers) .
According to professors, studio will be our main hangout/ work/ eat/sleep place.. so I will have my life in the studio basically. the guy sits next to me is called Antoine. He is from Quebec,Canada. A very cool guy , and he pays a lot of attention to quality. I used a cheap wal-mart knife to cut paper, he suggested" for you own benefits, A quality better knife will be good for later modeling work" . He studied urban planning before, and pays attention to details a lot! I got ideas for my first assignment from him . The other interesting person I met is a guy who studied Chinese literature at Yale. he wanted to go to law school and found out that he didn't like it , so now is changing his direction to architecture. He speaks pretty perfect Chinese ! Also some other awesome people that I should mention are my new roommates! They are both form Grinnelle College in Iowa. The guy is my high school friend. His Chinese name sounds a lot like Calculus in Chinese. People make fun of that and it's easy to get people's attention this way. I will probably name my children some impressive name like that. The other girl is from Beijing , she is super cute and is doing computational finance master program at Carnegie Mellon ( Their school have a branch campus on Wall street , basically one floor in a building on Wall street . The floor above them is a same program from Cornell University). These people probably go straight to Wall street after graduation. If I am not doing architecture, computational finance sounds something I would do for graduate school . I recently discovered that I like CS better than Math..lol..probably just because CS is involved in almost every subject these days.
Anyway, I will keep posting about my design studio stuff( it's getting really intense now, I don't like critics.. )
Hope everyone is doing well for the start of 2011 Fall! NYC is getting chilly as well, stay warm , friends ;)
My great grandma lived with my parents and me until I was in grade 2 in elementary school. One day, she said she would like to go back to Guilin with us for a vacation and then she said she would love to stay there rather than coming back with us at the end of the vacation. Two weeks after that, she passed away. So I was not able to attend her funeral or to say goodbye. I didn't feel anything but the fact that she was not with me then. The first time I wrote about her as a homework assignment in my middle school, I burst out into tears and could barely speak when I was reading my assignment in front of my class. Not until then did I finally realize how much I missed her and how much she weighed deep in my heart. I am with you. I hear you. 911 is terrifying not because it was one of the most famous terrorist events in the world, but because so many people lost their loves on the same single day that the world was filled with so much sorrow. It may still be.
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