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Mapping My Life - Taejin Park

  • Biological: Comparing my height again, but with my sister

    This has been a thing since middle school up until now that I've noticed, but me and my brothers are significantly taller than our sister. It's not unusual, but it's still funny, it's even funnier because even though I'm the youngest, I'm still slightly taller than my two brothers. It makes me think back to when I was in 4th grade, when me and my sister were the same height. I think in 5th and 6th, my sister was taller, but then probably during 8th, I grew to be taller.
  • Biological: Going back to in person school after remote learning

    Biological: Going back to in person school after remote learning

    When COVID eventually died down, I had to switch from remote learning back to school. The thing is that my grade went into quarantine near the end of 6th grade and came back during 8th grade. I remember looking at everyone and thinking that they had all grown so tall. Maybe not in height, but I was told my voice had gotten way more deeper. I can confirm, hearing recordings from online learning sounds way different from my voice now, which sounds similar to my voice now.
  • Biological: Comparing my height through the years

    I remember when I was about 15, I started to think back to 8th grade, when I talked about my height being 5'4. Since I'm pretty short for my age, I hadn't noticed until then that I grew two inches at 5'6. I thought it and thought it was a fascinating moment where I actually saw that I grew.
  • Societal: Eating spaghetti in front of my friends

    It was roughly a year or two ago when I invited 3 of my friends over to hangout and play games. They stayed until 7-8 so naturally my family prepared dinner for them. The menu was spaghetti, so when it was time to eat, I was eating it like I usually did, by slurping the noodles down. Shortly after I started eating, two of my friends in pure horror began to criticize me on my manners. In the moment, I wasn't even upset or embarrassed, just utterly confused. It dawned to me that my whole