Archives - Allie Tay
betterthaneveryone
A chat with engineers on the engineering superiority complex
Complaining to a friend about your upcoming philosophy paper due? Well, actually, shut up, because listen, they’re an engineer, and they’ve probably spent more hours of their lives on their weekly problem sets than you have sleeping.
busy bee
Spill the T(ay)!: I rely on my headphones more than I should
For me, plugging in and tuning out is the solution: It feels productive, or at least more productive than walking in silence.
Drag
Drag Charity Show: out and proud on campus
The event to aimed to bring visibility to ongoing LGBTQ+ youth issues throughout the Rochester area.
culture
RICE Crew dances across borders
If there’s any place to enjoy EXO’s Love Shot on repeat, Shape of You remixes, or to people-watch (K-pop edition), look no further than a RICE Crew practice.
Artist review
‘My Messy Mind’ has a personality of its own
Her music screams for your attention, but in a natural “you know you’ll find yourself here” and not in a “LOOK AT ME” type of way.
friendship
Spill the T(ay)!: To everyone, everything, that’s no longer mine
You left so many pieces of you with me — I’m a mosaic. You gave me pretty stained glass, and when you left it cracked into shards.
cultural holidays
Why your New Year’s resolutions should be indulgently impossible
It was two days after New Year’s, but I sat down and made The List anyway just because Why Not.
ever better
Quiz: Should you overload next semester?
Do you have friends/a social life? "A. If my laptop, iPad, and three-foot stack of biology notes count, then yes."
bts
On BTS, K-pop, and toxic fan culture
I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve heard people offhandedly refer to K-pop lovers as all “fangirls” or “Koreaboos.”
asia
Spill the T(ay!): Lost in translation
Once every few years, I got a taste of what it feels to be an outsider in my own culture, peering in. I was a girl lost in translation.
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