@lilypippili wow yeah it was but hey its okay !!!
@Kasey112 I’m going out to dinner with my parents. I’ve realized this year that they really are the most important thing in my life and I want to celebrate these milestones while they are still part of my life 
@LymanZerga A fan of both! I love Saint-saens violin stuff, I play a lot of violin haha. great composer. I adore Stravinsky, especially firebird suite
Obviously I don’t do it anymore but it makes me upset that it is a billion dollar industry that shouldn’t be there. And media and songs only cause more divisions
The end of my supp essay:
“Now, in my senior year of high school, I have less than a year left before I am once again separated from the people that I have become greatly attached to. I will face the change that I have so much abhorred throughout my childhood. But this time, I am not afraid. It will be difficult giving up the life I have now, but I have learned that, with the right approach, change can bring about better circumstances over time. I see myself thriving in a new, vibrant community, surrounded by people whom I can connect and relate with— people whom I can meet, befriend, and cherish, and I welcome change with open arms. Yes, change is inevitable, but it is nothing worth fearing. Change brings about losses, but at the same time, countless new doors to open, each of them potentially leading to invaluable relations that last a lifetime.”
It’s a bit weird without context, but meh. :3
@james1998iq Great to meet a fellow classical music enthusiast! Aren’t too many people who enjoy classical music in this society. I play the piano. Btw, I dont really talk like that, thats just my pseudo-intellectual trolling haha
Wow, didn’t realize the word “Tro.ll” is censored.
@QueenN22 Wow, I’ve been lucky enough to have other Ethiopian friends to fall back to, I don’t know if I could have made it this far without them…
I have so much respect for you. Of course, own that essay. You are so beautiful, inside and out. Harvard would be freaking lucky to have someone like you.
@QueenN22 what a powerful essay I’m sure. I’m glad to hear you have a healthier outlook now. What bothers me is that a lot of the people who go to my school (private catholic school) are white, which is obviously not in itself an issue. But what is is that they always say things like “black people always complain about racism but it doesn’t even exist anymore” or “minorities just complain so much but no one is hurting them so why are they freaking out” They never can truly understand the experience of a minority and how much it hurts to have our issues casted aside as “petty”.
@lilypippili @aharper98 I greatly appreciate y’all’s use of y’all (coming from NC)
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@lilypippili check your messages!
@chadur SOUTH REPRESENT. Hah! I just had this really sad realization of me moving far away from all my friends and family. 
creds @Pernix
@lilypippili Thank you. It was something I really wanted to tell someone and if it’s just a random stranger reading my essay, that’s enough for me
@tuty143 I always say that maybe it would have been better in the 60s when I knew when someone was blatantly insulting me. The worst kind is not even white vs minority but minority vs minority. Nothing boils my skin more than when black people offend each other. How could I possibly feel confident about myself when someone who looks similar to me doesn’t even like the why I look?
@QueenN22 Can I ask how you overcame that part of your life? Message me if you don’t want to post it here or you don’t even have to respond if it’s too personal, but I’m kind of really afraid for my sister… she’s too young to know about skin-bleaching and I really hope she wouldn’t be driven to that point, but the behavior she’s showing is really scaring me. Like over the summer, I would joke about how tan we were getting and she literally said she didn’t like her skin and she didn’t want to get darker, and then she said something about how I was lighter-skinned than she was so it wasn’t the same for me
@CambridgeGal98 WAH SORRY HOW DID I NOT NOTICE
There is no better place to be than Harvard to feel that you belong, no matter what minority or majority you belong to. Unless you’re a hateful bastard 
As my interviewer said, “Harvard is a microcosm of the world.”
@QueenN22 I know exactly what you mean. Nothing crushes me more than when another hispanic asks me why I’m so light…or why I have an accent when I speak spanish. You want to be accepted in your ethnicity/race but they won’t even accept you. :((
@aharper98 I go to boarding school 2.5 hours away from home and it’s honestly the best decision I’ve made in my life. I’ve met the most amazing people and would absolutely do it again if given the choice
@lilypippili what really helped me was Twitter to be honest. Following all these black empowerment pages and connecting back with my African culture made me realize that my skin was beautiful. Also with women like Lupita coming out and landing on most beautiful helps alot. I wouldn’t want her to get to the point of skin bleaching but I knew no matter what anyone told me I didn’t believe them. Sometimes in mirror, I would tell myself that my melanin is on point or give positive aspects of my skin like how flawless it is or something like that