I finally finished writing up my CS 123 (projects in databases) project from this term. I've posted about it a few times, but I wanted to share with you the entire thing! I’m a really big fan of databases. I think it’s because the work is low-level enough that I…

There are a ton of amazing art museums in the Los Angeles area. If you don't have a car, many of them are difficult to visit from campus. My freshman year, I had the luck of being able to visit the Getty Museum twice! The Getty is a private art…

Two weeks ago, the CMS (Computing and Mathematical Sciences) department held their annual Meeting of the Minds mini-conference. This event is held every year during alumni weekend as a kind of showcase of student work for the visiting alumni (some local tech companies attended this year as well). The event…

A few weeks ago, the Caltech Feminist Club hosted our third annual Take Back the Night event. Take Back the Night exists to support victims of sexual violence. It is held around the country every year, and often involves a rally, a candle lit vigil, and a march. Our event…

This past week I played hooky from Caltech. I skipped an entire week of classes and flew to the east coast for two major events: my boyfriend’s graduation from his university, and our new apartment search in New York! I flew out on a Tuesday night and we took a…

This event counts a little as an on-campus and off-campus adventure. The Pasadena Playhouse, about a mile from campus, is currently running a play called "The Originalist," about the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Scalia was a proponent of Originalism, a constitutional interpretation that rose in popularity while he…

A few exciting things have happened on and around campus recently that I wanted to share with you :) First, the March for Science on April 20th. There was a large event in Downtown LA, and a smaller one in Pasadena. Many people on campus chose to go to the…

I hope you all enjoyed Prefrosh Weekend! We love having prefrosh on campus for PFW. One of the highlights for me is always the activities fair, where we get to meet prefrosh who might join our clubs and teamsnext year. This was the Feminist Club's table: It was a little…

I wanted to share the rest of my Spring break with you before I forget it all! I was lucky enough to go home for two weeks (a pretty long vacation, as usually Caltech's Spring break is just one week). I spent most of my time running and baking, two…

Did you know that Caltech offers a cooking class? It's called Cooking Basics and it's taught by Caltech's Director of Student Activities, Tom Mannion. Tom lives in a Caltech-owned house just off campus, and the class is held in a huge tent in his backyard. The class is only pass/fail,…

Spring break was two weeks this year, and I packed a ton of sleeping and reading into those two weeks! I also got off of my butt in order to do a few fun things with my family, including visiting the Philadelphia Flower Show with my mom. We used to…

Before finals last term, I was able to squeeze in a few more off-campus adventures. My boyfriend came to visit (he attends another University), so we rented a Zipcar for two days and drove all over Los Angeles, eating as much food as we could, basically. We started at True…

Happy belated International Women's Day! Ok, very belated. We celebrated on March 8th, but I only just got around to writing a blog post about it :P This year Caltech celebrated IWD with the help of a bunch of our student clubs and organizations. Cece, a Rudd, contacted the Caltech…

A few weeks ago, my Aunt and Uncle brought me along on a trip to see Fun Home in Downtown LA. There is a huge complex of theaters at the Performing Arts Center inDTLA, and there were several productions there on the night that we went. There is a theater…

Procrastibaking: baking delicious foods because following instructions to create new products is almost like doing your coding homework, but allows you to put off doing your homework for at least one hour while still feeling productive. I love procrastibaking :P Recently I've ramped up my baking productivity, perhaps because we…

Have you heard of the Caltech bubble? It's a very, very real phenomenon where extremely busy students, splitting their time between homework and lectures and research and limited personal time, stop reading the news and rarely become aware of current events beyond what happens on their own campus. While understandable,…

The Caltech Diversity Center has begun a lecture series on campus called "food for thought," where, as you may have guessed if you know any college students, they bribe students with food to convince them to listen to amazing speakers on interesting topics (you might think that amazing speakers and…

A few of us bloggers (and some other ladies) visited the Langham Hotel in South Pasadena for afternoon tea this Saturday. Oh my goodness it was delicious. And very fancy. If you've been reading this blog long enough, you'll notice that I wrote an almost identical post last year (2015…