I can see myself staying in Los Angeles

It’s still a bit early, but I can see myself staying in Los Angeles. It’s not a classically beautiful city like downtown Chicago, but I think downtown Chicago is just a tad too perfect for me. It’s a bit touristy and the city is very segregated. Los Angeles is more racially and ethnically mixed, or at least it feels that way. I think it pays to live in a liberal city and I do tend to lean left politically, it’s just the smarter choice, to be honest. 

Los Angeles also sort of reminds me of MIT a bit: again, not a conventionally pretty city, but one that really makes you have to think, almost like the MIT campus. It’s a great place to be creative, though I haven’t yet produced much in this city aside from this blog. 

On another note, I’m also starting to get integrated with the people here, mostly through the Los Angeles Tennis Association. It’s interesting, tennis is something I’m not particularly passionate about, but I have a talent for. I’m not a super athletic individual, as I do lack many of the shots that would make me a professional or division I player. I’m someone who needs a lot of practice to get to that level. I’m not a naturally strong person as I’ve mentioned before. 

My cousin also lives in Los Angeles and is a landscape architect here. She’s done a few projects for the USC campus, and her father is a landscape architecture professor in China. I don’t know much about architecture, to be honest, but I just have a feeling that that is where my talent(s) lie. It’s just a gut feeling, and the Southern California Institute of Architecture seems like a great place to get the ball rolling.