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15 Weird Things About Me

  1. I don't find TV show or movies interesting (except that slice-of-life drama that I watched for a week with mom to learn Chinese).
  2. I find YouTube recommendations boring.
  3. I got into a habit of wearing socks when I sleep after reading that it is good for you (now I hear it isn't good for you...).
  4. If I had to eat kimchi, I would warm it up.
  5. I did not watch Disney channel/Cartoon Network/Nickelodeon as a kid. I watched Qubo, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, and Tom & Jerry.  
  6. BRAINPOP WAS MY CHILDHOOD! I guess I wanted to sound smart so I remember watching a video about Communism in 2nd grade. Not surprisingly, I didn't understand a thing about it. 
  7. When I am bored, I press on the radio button of my clock and listen to NPR for a few seconds.
  8. I enjoy playing piano yet I don't listen to a lot of music. The ads on Spotify bother me so much that I gave up listening to music. 
  9. I like making Spotify playlists on the computer occasionally, but the greatest irony is that I don't even listen to my playlists. 
  10. I was obsessed with the Myer-Briggs test (16 Personalities) in middle school and asked my friends to take the test. 
  11. I am very scared of flies. If flies didn't buzz, then I would not be too scared of them. 
  12. I thought ghosts were real in 3rd grade and they would lurk in the hallways of the local high school. 
  13. If I were to appear on TLC's My Strange Addiction, it would be spending a lot of time reading MIT Admissions blogs. I probably won't get in anyway (says this on 10/20/20). 
  14. The only time I said the f word was when I was describing to someone a tourist shirt I saw that said "f*** Google." Yes, I didn't mean to say that word.
  15.  My Zoom background features 5 stuffed animals in the background.  

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