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Open Letter #1 – If You Really Knew Me

Posted October 15th, 2010 by Peter · 8 Comments

This week’s submission is quite different from what you’re used to on SAPL. All of us have probably felt this way at one point or another, so enjoy this very first installment of Open Letter, If You Really Knew Me, by Kendrick Au. If You Really Knew Me In light of all of these stories [...]

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#92 University of California

Posted September 24th, 2008 by ryanfriday · 25 Comments

Davis, Berkeley, UCLA, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Irvine; the Big 6 is what people like to call the Universities that Asians absolutely like. Well, on the horizon of graduating high school, Asians have the aspiration to attend one of these colleges. The evidence can be seen in plain statistics: pretty much a majority of the [...]

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#51 Higher Education

Posted April 1st, 2008 by Peter · 32 Comments

Someone very dear to your favorite writer (Peter) was recently accepted to UC Berkeley. He asked for a post to be written about academics (even though there already is one), so as a congratulatory gift, I have taken the liberty of writing a post about the most sought after commodity to all first or second [...]

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Tags: Activities · Chores · Culture · Customs · Environment · Habits · History · People · Relationships · School · Superstition · Tidbits · Work

#3 Academics

Posted February 15th, 2008 by Peter · 24 Comments

Asian kids are always pressured to do well in School. This means not only doing better than their Asian peers, but kids twice their age. All asian kids will do one of the following: 1) Play an instrument: Be it piano, guitar, or violin (strongly preferred). 2) Study math at an accelerated rate: Asian kids [...]

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