The undergrad students requested a COVID lecture this week despite my attempts to dissuade. Who wants to hear about COVID? Apparently they do! They were 12-16 years old during the pandemic, which arguably was the group hit hardest by the overall impact.

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“Dropping in” is verboten in the US. And all “visiting” requires complex negotiations. Growing up in a noisy Greek-Australian house where people were always coming and going and we were always hosting extended family and friends, America was a shocking. Just inhospitable

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Now I wonder what happens if we could find some longitudinal data about how many young people have an appropriate house that belongs to them to host in 🤔 🤔 🤔

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it's absolutely mindboggling to me how few Americans invite/visit others at home, I cannot remember a weekend in India since I turned 15 where your friends do not visit/you don't visit them and I'm talking about ppl who live like 2 hrs drive away

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so this is not the main point but as someone who hosts holiday dinners every year, even sharing the cost with my mother, what do you MEAN socializing at home is a cost-free setting

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