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    The Mating Game started by lena
    likepolishingfirewood:

    new rule: you can’t volunteer to make someone a mixed tape like some john cusack circa “Say Anything” indie God out of my dreams, and then not respond to a fucking text message. it’s just MEAN.
    Kennedy has a new blog on Tumblr, a new life in Seattle, and a new distrust for men. (Thanks flaky [...]
    Enough, now. Here is the truth. started by lena
    toomuchawesome:

    Will Harvard Turn Blind Eye to Patrick Hamm Case?
    At Harvard, few have been hit by the urge to expose themselves than 20-year-old junior Lena Chen.

    Over the past few months, Chen has blogged and twittered about a new man in her life: “Patrick.”

    When she started posting pictures of her beau, “Patrick’s” identity immediately became obvious: [...]
    Quit gawking. It’s just sex. started by lena
    Read this for context. 

    I talked to Susannah Breslin today about what it’s like in college nowadays and what I think about what others think and how I handle all the shit that’s thrown at my blog and views on sexuality. Mid-interview, I verbalized for the first time something that I didn’t realize until recently. I […]
    Working it. started by lena
    I’ve been getting a fair share of critical comments and emails for appearing overprivileged and “jet-setting” all over Europe, which would actually not bother me so much if it weren’t for the fact that neither is true. Contrary to claims made by commenters on my blog, I don’t come from a wealthy family (which is [...]
    http://sexandtheivy.com/2008/08/05/the-mating-game started by lena
    Fear of Drowning started by lena
    Part of the reason why I write about my life is because I am scared of not remembering anything about it. I have a terrible memory, no doubt an ironic symptom of childhood bullying that taught me the art of forgetting terrible memories. (Truth: I routinely have problems with recalling things that happened before the [...]
    To All The Men I Wouldn’t Fuck started by lena
    (A more accurate title might be, “Sorry I didn’t sleep with you last summer!”)

    Anyway, remember that time I was abstinent? Yeah, it happened. April of last year. When I realized the guy I was into at the time was a cheater, compulsive liar, and probably a sociopath. (This was the same guy who later published […]
    http://sexandtheivy.com/2008/07/20/working-it started by lena
    http://sexandtheivy.com/2008/07/21/fear-of-drowning started by lena
    This is not enough to do justice. started by lena
    In a profile of me for her creative writing course, my friend called me the “girl alone in the riot-proof dorm.” That’s what the past year has been for me: solitude, safety, self-sufficiency. It is everything that seemed impossible less than two years ago.

    Contentment is harder to express than the depression or rage of my […]
    Things I Learned During Spring Break started by lena
    I just got back to the States two hours ago. This is what I learned:

    If you suffer from irrational fear of flying, it is probably not a good idea to go back on birth control, skip your period, and become a hormonal mess the same month you fly upwards of 30 hours.

    Yes, your nipple piercing […]
    Nights and Mornings started by lena
    I woke up Saturday morning with my cheek pressed into his chest and his hands softly gripping my back. My skin was sticky against his, and when I gently pulled away from him, I felt the faintest sting, as if I had peeled off a layer of myself in the process. His body had absorbed […]
    Enough, now. Here is the truth. started by lena
    toomuchawesome:

    Will Harvard Turn Blind Eye to Patrick Hamm Case?
    At Harvard, few have been hit by the urge to expose themselves than 20-year-old junior Lena Chen.

    Over the past few months, Chen has blogged and twittered about a new man in her life: “Patrick.”

    When she started posting pictures of her beau, “Patrick’s” identity immediately became obvious: [...]
    Enough, now. Here is the truth. started by lena

    Economists Disprove Yellow Fever? started by lena
    So according to this article off Slate, there is apparently “no evidence of the stereotype of a white male preference for East Asian women.” Of course, this is a study done via speed-dating events with subjects who attend Columbia grad school in New York fucking City. Maybe not totally representative, perhaps?

    Jezebel disagrees with the findings […]
    Press started by lena
    PRESS

    “Awkwardness.”

    –Abstinence Activist, Blogger Clash on Sex, THE HARVARD CRIMSON
    “Our Favorite Person Ever.”

    –Harvard Pro-Sex and Anti-Sex Crusaders Make Us Want To Ignore Them, Have Sex, IVYGATE
    “Chronicles her sexual encounters, mental-health issues and drug use …”<br
    Lena, The Student started by lena
    Since I had my last sections and lectures of the semester today, I feel totally free to reveal the following:

    * Some people check their email during lecture. I do that too. But also, I cyber, which is why I have that creepy smile on my face.

    * When I get really engrossed in a book and […]
    Of Werewolves and German Lovers started by lena
    Patrick is not my boyfriend. He is this great, new person in my life but I am not in any rush to define what we are, now or ever. My friends don’t understand this. “Oh, but he is!” they say. Or “Whatever, don’t even try to deny it.” Really, guys, he’s not my boyfriend. He […]
    My College Sweetheart started by lena
    A year and a half ago, I wrote a series of entries about Kennedy. Our freshman year of college had just finished and we were what I called then an “unlikely duo”. She is many things to me: my first and most significant girl crush, an authority figure who I am more likely to listen […]
    Stalling on Love, Falling for Myself started by lena
    I DON’T WANT to fall in love right now. See, I have always bent to the will of others, be they my mother or 11-year-old girls or men who cried love. And this year, for the first time in twenty, is the year of Me. I learned how to say no guiltlessly, do what I […]
    Year In Review: 2007, Simplified started by lena
    In Vegas party/paper-writing with my California friends. Please sound off on your favorite geek in the poll in my previous entry :) In the meantime, this is a cursory look at my year. Introspection tk!

    Who I Spent 2007 With …

    Guys I Went On Dates With: 9

    Guys I Dated: 3

    Guys I Fell in Love With: 0

    Guys […]
    A Look Back and A Look Forward started by lena
    Chen knew, as she told me later, that “the culture reacts differently when women make the same decisions men do.” Her own decisions were public knowledge, because she revealed them on her blog. Chen’s perspective on society, and Fredell’s, was borne out in the aftermath, as people wrote in to Ivygate, calling Lena Chen a […]
    Impressions started by lena
    In a profile of me for her creative writing course, my friend called me the “girl alone in the riot-proof dorm.” That’s what the past year has been for me: solitude, safety, self-sufficiency. It is everything that seemed impossible less than two years ago.

    Contentment is harder to express than depression or rage. How do you […]
    Opening This Saturday Night started by lena
    Directed by visiting artist Shelley Bolman and staged in Beale Street Memphis, this Ja zz age retelling of a tale of mistaken identity and romantic pursuit plays out before the rich backdrop of the Roaring Twenties. A time of blues and booze, of post-war partying and prohibition, this period in American life paralleled the raucous […]
    Lena, The Student started by lena
    Since I had my last sections and lectures of the semester today, I feel totally free to reveal the following:
    Some people check their email during lecture. I do that too. But also, I cyber, which is why I have that creepy smile on my face.

    When I get really engrossed in a book and the professor […]
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