![]() I mean, I obviously dedicated a lot of my time to watching it, but it also shaped my interests and experiences. My high school friends, on the other hand, only saw me sink further and further into weeb hell…Īnime is such a core part of my identity. Yeah, uh…all I can say is that everyone at MIT met the me that had already been shaped by years of intense passion for anime and manga. High school vs college: the duality of man I was curious about whether people think one of my defining traits is weebery, so I asked my best friend from high school (the one I wrote the 200-page fanfic with) and my boyfriend what they thought. And anime is barely a part of my life now. The people I hung out with before college are so different from those of my current friends, with the exception of maybe five or six people. When I got to MIT, I didn’t have any expectations for the people I would gravitate to, but I ended up with a set of friends with vastly different interests. like, who am I?Įven in the months leading up to the beginning of my freshman year, I would binge-watch hundreds of episodes of anime with my fellow admits and dedicate quite a bit of time to maintaining the adMIT anime chat (I absolutely was the lifeblood of that group). I’m so surrounded by vestiges of my anime fangirl past that considering how little time I devote to weeb pursuits while at MIT is pretty damn hilarious. Painting hanging next to my bed, or the precarious stack of volumes of Monster on my chest of drawers, either. Spirited Away 05 my favorite movie ever uwu It’s actually really funny to me to live at home since my bedroom is such a clear snapshot of my weeby highschool self take the sheets of Hunter X Hunter fanart plastered above my desk, or the calligraphy scrolls, or the Inuyasha poster above my dresser. ![]() Tower of God 04 i have such vivid memories of the few hours i spent binging 400+ chapters of it while in Japan four years agoĪnd playing Anime Music Quiz with my high school friends again, I can’t help but reconsider anime’s presence in my life. So now that I’m home and fangirling intensely over Guys, I straight up didn’t have time for anime at MIT!!! I didn’t watch a single episode by myself-the few series I consumed here and there were with other people, and rarely, at that. Hell, I’m listening to anime openings as I write this…Īnime is such a part of me that I wouldn’t actively think about writing about it, but with quarantine prompting my former weeb tendencies to resurface, I’ve started to think about how my relationship to it has changed. 03 a volleyball anime lol i'm not even interested in sports I co-wrote a 200-page self-insert fanfiction about I learned Japanese so I could watch shows without needing subtitles. Of anime and have read tens of thousands of chapters of manga. I’ve watched someĦ0+ days 02 if you think these are rookie stats, please hit me up so we can be friends Representation that the Admissions blogs totally needed… ![]() Weeb 01 anime/manga/general Japanese culture fan
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