Our Energy, Our Power
A long, long time ago, I blogged about a really cool event the sustainability office sponsored on campus where they a lot of the people who deal with Caltech waste... Read more.
Rotation! (or figuring out where you’re going to live at Caltech)
Your first room at Caltech is randomly assigned to you. If you have a roommate, the only consideration taken into that choice is gender. Gulp. The bright side: you’ll... Read more.
Pre-Frosh, Fighter Jets, the Navy Patrol, and Stingrays
The Caltech Y organizes a bunch of events, and I’ve led a few. When I signed up to take a bunch of pre-frosh on a kayaking / beach orientation trip with Ted... Read more.
Scary Etiquettes and Icky Food
I’m slightly obsessed with what I put in my body. For me, humans, life, and basically everything just boils down to a bunch of chemistry (yup, philosophy and... Read more.
Blisters, Hamstrings, and Oranges
This is my last post about sports, I promise. (I really promise, because it is my second to last post!) We had my first real race of the season today! The rest of... Read more.
Stupid Dinosaurs!
Welcome. That’s all a convocation is. All the new students, post-docs, and faculty who want to be officially welcomed head to the wedding cake and listen to... Read more.
Temples, Houseboats, and Kalaripayattu [ITB 6]
When you’re designing products for a different place, you have to understand that place – socially, economically, culturally. We got some sense of the... Read more.
Making Friends [ITB 5]
One of my favorite parts of this trip has been getting to know the SAINTGITS students. An akward first picture — none of us really knew each other yet. We... Read more.
Educated Unemployment and Labor Shorages [India Trip Blog 4]
In An 22, the intro to socio-cultural anthropology class I took last term, we talked about emic and etic perspectives. The emic perspective is the native point of... Read more.
Three Principles [India Trip Blog 3]
The Art Center students do market research before every project, so they gave us a few tips before we got to our first field site. We need to focus on understanding... Read more.
Many Firsts [India Trip Blog 2]
I was so tired last night after landing that I can’t even remember getting to the hotel / falling asleep. I woke up at 7, thinking much more clearly than the evening... Read more.
19 Hours [India Trip Blog 1]
Greetings from SINGAPORE!! I’m sitting in the airport waiting to board my next flight to Kochi, and totally pumped / exhausted from our 19 hour stopover in Singapore.... Read more.
Chipping away on CHIP
Meet Chip: Chip is a solar, net-zero house: the Compact Hyper Insulated Prototype. It’s also the house we’re building for the Solar Decathalon at the... Read more.
Beach Trip
I went to the beach again! SURFSAC, a student group that organizes lots of social / fun events over the summer, organized the trip. We had a (coach!) bus from Caltech... Read more.
The Golden Ticket (or rather
I never did a lot of stuff before coming to Caltech – research, eating mangos, and seeing a rattlesnake – and that now includes going to a fancy schmancy... Read more.
SURF Party!
Each Friday, the SURFs in my group (aka Professor Gray’s group) and his Solar Army team meet for an hour and present on what we’ve been up to! So what... Read more.
Orienteering
What in the world is orienteering?!? I vaguely remember my HS gym teacher being really into it, but beyond that, I didn’t really know what I was getting into... Read more.
Waterfalls and Fireworks
The LA National Forest sits right behind Pasadena, so I’ve been doing a lot of hiking lately. On Sunday, I went hiking with a friend and her family. We went... Read more.
The La B()ea(ch) Tar Pits
Those of you familiar with the area might get my reference to the natural La Brea Tar Pits next to the LAC Museum of Art. It turns out, the tar doesn’t just... Read more.
Hiking + Beach(ing?)
I always thought New Hampshire, my home state, was really cool for having mountains, beaches, and Canada within day-trip distance. There’s only one problem:... Read more.
Food Fest!!! Culture Fair!!!
Last week was World Fest. That’s a week of events put on by the Caltech Y, the International Student Program, the Diversity Center and a bunch of other groups.... Read more.
Hollywood Hike
Hi Everyone! I hope those of you who came enjoyed pre-frosh weekend! I enjoyed meeting my pre-frosh and showing her around campus! Right after the pre-frosh left,... Read more.
Caltech Y Friend’s Dinner
I’m taking Bi1 right now. Bi1 is one of the ways to fulfil our biology requirement if we don’t want to major in biology and aren’t terribly enthusiastic... Read more.
MAD Day
One of the biggest Caltech Y events each year is MAD Day. Make a Difference Day takes group of 5 to 15students and sends them on a service project somewhere in our... Read more.
