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Late Night Noshing

Finals have rolled around, and everyone here at Cornell (is mostly) studying. And writing. And studying, and writing, and finishing up projects, et al. This results in late nights, and with late nights, comes late night eats. I imagine typical students get something delivered from CampusFood.com, venture out to Collegetown Bagels, or go to the […]

新年快乐!

Happy 2010, everyone!  In China, it’s a traditional custom to eat oranges to celebrate the new year.  We ate oranges all the time in China (being health conscious after eating the sodium and calorie fortified dining hall fare, you know) — it’s easy to get a bunch for a couple kuai on campus.  There’s one […]

2012 and 2013 Brunch

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

You’d be surprised by the quantity and variety of these desserts in China. My father’s side of the family is Chinese so I thought I was pretty well acquainted with them, the sorts that come in fours inside elaborately decorated tin cans shipped from Hong Kong and bought at Chinese supermarkets in Flushing. Two weeks […]

Ack, Where Are My Keys?

Hello, I’m Caitlin, I’m another one of the seniors in CAPS, a CAPS/Govt double major. I’m from California (Oakland), and I like long walks on the beach and whispering sweet Chinese chengyu in the moonlight. The four line for the Beijing Subway opens on Monday! Monday. That is just three days away. THREE DAYS. This […]

Week 4

真抱歉 for being a terrible blogger — September seemed to come out of nowhere, and with the internship-class pairing, life here felt a bit like pencil-diving into the pool.  I feel compelled to say belly-flopping, but that would imply that things have been painful, which they are not.  We’re all just busy. Which would probably […]

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