Chandrew’s Recs #2: In Search of Hot Chicks (Specifically, the Best Nashville Hot Chicken)
About a month later it is finally time for the second part of our three (maybe 4??) part series where I take you through my favorite food in the Pasadena area. Today’s... Read more.
Chandrew’s Recs #1: Bubble Tea!
Hey hey! We’re starting a series where I walk you through my best finds for food and drinks in the Pasadena region, and in the LA metropolitan area.... Read more.
My Best Advice for the Class of 2025
It’s crazy to think that it has been four years now since I was applying to college. I remember it vividly. This week we’re spending some time reflecting on... Read more.
Reflecting on College Admissions
What do you remember feeling when you found out you had been accepted to Caltech? In short: I was completely shocked. Caltech had been my first-choice school for... Read more.
Photos From the Time of Covid
It’s month 6 of quarantine and I’m writing to you from Colorful Colorado (also known as the state where it snowed last week and was 95 out today). Climate... Read more.
Hello World
It is currently 1:21 in the morning and I am thrilled to be writing the first post of our new admissions blog, Caltech Fission. For those of you who didn’t follow... Read more.
Sparky, Stand Back! It’s SCIENCE Time!
Happy Friday y’all! In all my abundant free time (which obviously exists) I’ve started volunteering with the Pasadena Unified School District. I’ve been working... Read more.
Reflections
After a week being back, I think it’s about time for some reflections on what it meant to be abroad, and what I’ve taken away from it. I’m really happy to... Read more.
String food = new String(“Too Much Food”);
Hello, Java monsters! If you couldn’t tell from my EXCELLENT punning, I’m taking CS 2 this term, a computer science course about the wonderful world of Java.... Read more.
LA Zoo Lights
There’s nothing more festive than beautiful holiday decor. Something that has gotten quite popular in recent years is light displays. Around Pasadena, the... Read more.
Goodbye, Old Chang Kee
Well. I’m on a flight out of the UK right now. I’m going from London to Iceland, and then heading back home to Denver for a couple weeks. I didn’t do much... Read more.
Castle to E4, Checkmate
(Yes, I know they’re called rooks, but I needed a pun) Hiya lads and lasses! I did my final wee bit of Scotland exploration this week, which is to say, I finally... Read more.
#1
It was a farewell dinner today. The beginning of the end. Crazy to think in less than a week I’ll be back in Denver and this entire country hopping adventure will... Read more.
Drizzles in Durham
There, and back again. A Caltech student’s tale. I went back to the land of my enemy, my mortal nemesis. Or at least, the nemesis of our school. Durham, the only... Read more.
It’s Studying Time
Well, the week before finals week is finally here. And I spent that studying, but also, doing the ever-important finishing of reports, and honestly, taking a couple... Read more.
From Cold into Colder
It is COLD here. I know I’ve said that before but hOh my goodness I almost froze to death on Saturday. Of course, this wasn’t helped by how I almost froze to... Read more.
Thankful for Singapore Society
I killed today. Yes, I killed Thanksgiving dinner, but more than that, this was the first time that I’d ever prepared live seafood. But wait. You’re probably... Read more.
Cold, Wet, And Happy
Well uh, good evening from a cold and rainy Scotland. I spent the whole of today in beautiful St. Andrew’s Scotland. Funny, I know. I’m Andrew. In St. Andrew’s.... Read more.
Christmas In… November?
Cue bells, jolly music, and large men in red tracksuits It’s Christmas in Edinburgh! Take that with a grain of salt; I personally don’t believe that the holiday... Read more.
A Fusillade of Question Marks (Belfast Part 2)
One of my favorite Northern Irish poets, Ciaran Carson, passed away last month, and this second part of the trip, this post title, and my Belfast exploration was... Read more.
I Lava Northern Ireland (Belfast Part 1)
Well good morning there! Today I’m writing about what I did last weekend (as per usual). And what I did… was go to Ireland! Again! Except this was a little different... Read more.
A Scone, on a Stone, in Scone
G’day mates! Today I am writing from Edinburgh, but I just go back from Perth! Yep, that’s right: flights to Australia were reaaaally cheap this weekend so we... Read more.
Day in Durham and Fall Feels
It’s truly Autumn in Scotland now. It reached 0 degrees Celsius today, or 32 Fahrenheit for you yanks. They’re setting up the Christmas market downtown (as thanksgiving... Read more.
I’ll Be Back
And I’ll be Mozart. Greeting blog readers, random internet browsers, and Karla. It’s the last week of school. In-fact, it’s my last week at Caltech for a while.... Read more.
We’re *Definitely* Not in Pasadena Anymore, Toto
16 hours of airtime, more of just sitting in airports. And well, we’re definitely not in Pasadena. Exactly where am I though? Singapore! Specifically, the far... Read more.
Life’s Looking Pretty Beachy
Welcome to part 2 of “Chandrew has a friend in town and is procrastinating his schoolwork by hanging out with him”! Also known as “It’s a Sunday so we went... Read more.
Griffith Adventure Land
Greetings from La La Land! Actually, pretty much the top of La La Land. No, I didn’t make a trip out to Mt. Baldy; I did that last year and I suffered enough on... Read more.
OC Can You Say?
It’s Sunday night and you know what that means: FOOD! TRUCK! ROAD! TRIP! (minus the truck part of the food truck). In other words, Eric and I drove an hour to... Read more.
Watts the Matter?
Fasten your seatbelts, attach your climbing harness to your jetpack, it’s time for FIELD TRIP 2019 EDITION! But Andrew, you say, you aren’t in any geology classes... Read more.
Some Late-Night Stress-Saving Food Runs
Midterms kept up its unrelenting attack on my sanity this week – at least a little bit. And how did I solve this? Two words. Stress. Eating. Some of my friends... Read more.
Blinterhouse Round 2
Hello, my friends, it has been a long week but it’s the weekend now! And that means it’s interhouse season! This is actually the second interhouse party that... Read more.
Oh Capitan, El Capitan!
Hey fronds. Anemones. Other oceanly characters who have made the trip out to the Caltech blogs for a brief respite of fun under the sun (or fun at the behest of... Read more.
A Geology Meme a Day…
Keeps your bad grades away! (hopefully – just took the final, did not go well). Hello from Maryland! As you can probably tell, I’m a couple days behind with... Read more.
Huntington Trip
I’m beginning to get the suspicion that every Caltech humanities class tries to find some excuse to go visit the Huntington. I’m not complaining though. I love... Read more.
How much food can one boy eat?
A lot. That’s the honest and unabridged answer. I went on a food tour this Sunday night with our director of student activities, Tom Mannion. Tom has made it into... Read more.
Crow-bar None (Ge 11a Part 2)
Ok now for the FUN! Geology post. And the post where I talk a bit about the logistics of going on a 3.5-day Caltech GPS trip. The trip started on a Thursday night.... Read more.
Twisted
Got my first ever parking ticket this week. And second. Yikes. The first was for parking in an (unmarked) street sweeping zone next to a park. The other was for... Read more.
(Less Painful) Hiking!
What is crackalackin’ my dudes?! It’s yo’ boi Chandrew in the house about to spit some fresh verse regarding the freshman orientation hike I led last weekend.... Read more.
Birthdays During Rotation!
Hello dear readers (or Kristin who possibly creates the 3,000 web hits this blog gets every month herself, whichever it is). Let’s take a journey. Long story short,... Read more.
magic – a Las Vegas Story
TLDR: my dad and I stopped in Vegas, ate too much, and got a photo with Penn and Teller (but not together). What’s up party people? This is part two of the epic... Read more.
SFP
Time for week two of the SURF updates! So, what have I been up to? The answer is pretty much everything. My postdoc mentor (Miquela) was out of town for the first... Read more.
H-Mart in California (and Why Thirsty)
I decided to go out on a Wednesday night, crazy, I know. Anyways the entire point was to try this place that homemakes their boba just as I’m working with CDS... Read more.
The Caltech Dance Show
About a week ago I started seeing posters for the Caltech dance show. It seemed like a fun time and honestly I could’ve sworn I remembered seeing something on... Read more.
New Year, New Me
Man, 2019 feels like it was just yesterday. See, I’m hilarious, I promise. Happy new year y’all! It is 2020, and with that I figured it was time to chat about... Read more.
