#new school

🚨 For the 5th consecutive night, students at Columbia University continue the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, undeterred by over 100 arrests, and returning with larger tents than before.

The students have declared that they will not stop until the University, with its $14 billion endowment, divests from zionism.

Despite a number of suspensions and censorship, students are not backing down. Tour guides for new students have resigned in protest of the repression. Support rallies continue outside the university.

The liberated zone at Columbia has inspired others: At Yale University in Connecticut, an encampment named Gaza Plaza with demands of divestment continues for the third consecutive night despite suspension threats. At Yale, a number of graduate students undertook an 8-day-long hunger strike to demand their university divest from zionism.

sometimes I feel like I transferred to another planet instead of another school.

I don’t speak the language yet.

I don’t know where to sit.

I don’t know what to do.

and somehow I already know that two girls don’t like me.

for what? being too quiet? too foreign? too new?

It’s strange how you can feel invisible and targeted at the same time.

I’m not sad because they dislike me.

I’m sad because I haven’t even gotten the chance to be known.

but maybe that’s okay.