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...Harvard. Her thesis film, For Beijing with Love and Squalor, which she shot in China during her time as a student at the Beijing Film Academy, has been shown at several film festivals throughout the US, East Asia, and Europe. She also has made one short film, entitled Crema Roz. Her future plans include pursuing a Ph.D. in film in London and researching a film on Moscow and the end of the Cold...
...Although both of my grandmothers, who live just a few miles south of Palm Beach, know more about politics than any person with a job, they are stymied by technology. My maternal grandmother, Mama I, is so defiantly anti-VCR and cell phone that whenever she reaches her friend Roz's answering machine, she hangs up on it and says, "What does she need with that for? Like she's some big business executive...
...hear enough to learn that my mom, who'd already changed her name three times, is now Roz Leszczuk, which sounds like a felled Romanian dictator. It made me sad to realize that my mother was now part of a family that was not only separate from mine, but whose members might expect me to remember their birthdays. Plus there's something depressing about realizing you'll never be able to pronounce your own mother's name...
...many ways, the two of them, along with my other close friends from my first year--Roz, Vani, Hema, and Katie--gave me a family away from home, which brings me to my final piece of advice: find a home for yourself at Harvard. It can be a room, a group of friends, a favorite spot in the Yard. For some of my friends it has been the Law School Library, for others it has been 14 Plympton (The Crimson), for still others, it has been the Grille. For me, it has been the company of my blockmates. But once...
...readers who wrote in suggested some terrific sites. ohmygoodness.com is funny and raunchy--a refreshing alternative to bluemountain.com the cloying market leader; wordwiseweb.com lets you mix and match words to customize such, er, unique greetings as "Amazing Friend" and "Feel Great." My new personal favorite (thanks, Roz!) is bowcreek.com Its sweet and elegant cards can be sent in batches of up to 25 people at once...