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...rudiments of Chinese culture: what to expect, how to act, etc. While this was undoubtedly informative, FM came up with a couple more tips we thought she should know. 1) Don’t mention siblings—that’s just rubbing it in. 2) You can tell a lot from toasting: a person of lower status touches the rim of their glass below the rim of a higher-status counterpart. 3) Chinese people will look up to you (you will be taller than most). 4) Tap your index and middle finger on the table twice to thank...
...focused on TotSpot, “a social publishing venture.” (Broukhim is a former Crimson editorial chair.) TotSpot helps parents who aren’t technically savvy share their children’s milestones on the Internet, giving “parents an easy way to tell friends and family about their kids. They can publish photos, videos, firsts, to show a phase when you are beautiful and innocent,” according to Katz. Warning to prospective TotSpot users: anything that includes braces or other such token symbols of the awkward phase ought not be included...
...that second semester stress.Adam N. Sternthal ’08, was indeed intrigued and decided to approach the group. “They have this meter: you put your hands on it and it starts jumping around,” he explains. “They’ll tell you that you look stressed out, and if you start saying that nothing’s wrong, everything’s all right, they’ll just ask over and over what you’re afraid of.” Shapiro recalls a similar experience in which...
Every Harvard student knows the freshman week routine. You meet, you shake hands, you ask the usual questions about concentrations, dorms, and roommates. Inevitably, someone asks: where are you from? For some students, the answer is complicated.When Melusi A. Dlamini ’10 tells people that he’s from Swaziland, a small nation between South Africa and Mozambique, he’s lucky if they even know the continent he’s from. “Every once in a while,” he says, “though not too often, someone will...
Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: I wasn’t trying to ignore you; I didn’t wave to you because I didn’t think you’d wave back...