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Although the memories I have of my childhood in China are painful to think about because they remind me of the home I miss so much, holding on to them is the only way to get through it. They remind me of how grateful I should be to have had a home that was filled with love and happiness.

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While living with five housemates has its ups and downs, I do have to say our apartment reflects bits and pieces of everyone’s personality, whether it’s the decor or random trinkets we all have.

I beg you not to picture our tiny apartment kitchen with the amount of things I’ve described, as I assure you we’ve made it work. And while you couldn’t call it spacious per se, on its good days it does pass as tidy. It remains the soul of Apartment 23...

That’s the sad thing—most people are like that. They think that a house is just a thing to be bought and sold. They really don’t get it. And what’s really horrifying is that those are precisely the people who can afford a house. 

Houses, like men, have bodies, as well as all assumed components: spines upholding them, limbs propelling them and rudimentary organs enriching them.

I’ll be honest, I wasn’t planning to fall so hard for Apartment 23. She’s got her issues, and I wasn’t joking about the creaky floors or the dim lighting. She’s a small apartment, feeling even smaller with four people living there...

I’m not really sure what it means to be home.

I present to you, a rare species at Berkeley: an international student. As one of these almost extinct species, here’s a guide on how to not become exhausted keeping up with Cal while maintaining old connections. Sound long, tiring and not very fun to hear? Yeah, well, welcome to long distance.

A house and a home are not two extremes. One is not a foil to the other. They lie on the same line — a crooked one.