Adventures of Ojai
A couple weekends ago, we drove to the Ventura area to play in an invitational tennis tournament. It was difficult to finish up all my sets to leave Wednesday night,... Read more.
Easter Day
For Easter, the UCCs organized an egg hunt for the house. The eggs were hid around the house and at noon, we were given colorful baskets and set free to pickup eggs!... Read more.
Reflections on Tennis Season
The conference tournament that we call SCIACs (that’s just the name of our conference) was this past weekend, concluding our season. It was especially hot this... Read more.
Blood Moon
This past Tuesday I watched the lunar eclipse! A bunch of us sat in the Fleming Hovse courtyard watching the Moon. The house provided snacks and we sat on our artificial... Read more.
Tennis over Spring Break
While we travelled to Texas, we weren’t the only team to skip town; the baseball team played games in Arizona, and the men’s basketball team travelled all the... Read more.
What happens in Texas… goes up on my blog
This Spring Break, the women’s tennis team travelled to Texas! We played two matches against Texan teams; you can read about the matches here. And in addition... Read more.
SKI TRIPP!!!
Every house has a ski trip sometime in January. It’s always a lot of fun to be off campus for a couple days just with your house. For Fleming, we went to Big Bear... Read more.
Secret Santa!
Our house had a Secret Santa Gift Exchange last week. It’s a house tradition where we are randomly matched up with a person to gift, and someone else gives you... Read more.
The grass is always greener…
At Caltech! Quite literally. Since a couple months ago, the lawns on campus are being remodeled, for lack of a better word. It’s quite a long and arduous process... Read more.
Techers being Social?
Just a little background, Caltech’s undergrad population is divided into eight houses, each with their own uniqueness. Each house has their own social team, a... Read more.
Wallpaper. at Caltech!
The Friday before finals week, the band Wallpaper. performed at Caltech! It was one of those online competitions for which college had the most votes, and we won!... Read more.
Hello!
Hi readers! It’s good to be back blogging again! I didn’t realize how many prefrosh read the blogs until they came to Tech and recognized me from them. It was... Read more.
Fleming Interhouse Party!
This past weekend was our Interhouse party BFP, also known as Big ‘Fleming’ Party. It was similar to the other Interhouses, but this time, since I’m... Read more.
Alumni Weekend – a trip into the past
For Alumni Weekend, our house organized a dinner with Tom Mannion. The food was delicious, as always and I finally got to meet the alums that graduated a couple... Read more.
Go to Bed Frosh! Ditch Day is Tomorrow
From May 17 (sorry for the delay) One of arguably the best traditions at Caltech is Ditch Day. It started back when the seniors would pick a day to go off campus,... Read more.
What?
So I’m in a lab class this term; we have take home physics labs which involve deriving equations, building circuits, and measuring values from them. Last Sunday,... Read more.
A Day in the Life of a Caltech Athlete
At an academically oriented university such as Caltech, we probably spend more time with schoolwork here than at other places. But this is not to say that it’s... Read more.
A picture’s worth a thousand words?
Over the past couple of months, I’ve accumulated a couple of photos on my phone from a range of events. And here they are! Every term each house has formal... Read more.
Hello Again!
It’s been a while since I last blogged, and it feels good to be back! First off, I’d like to congratulate the regular decision admitted students. If admissions... Read more.
Reflections on first term
Winter break flew by almost as fast as first term, and when I come to think about it, a ton happened during my first exposure to college.I learned how to write mathematical... Read more.
Trip to LA
Since we finished finals early, my friend and I had planned to spend our day visiting the Getty Museum and the beach at Santa Monica. We were woken up a little before... Read more.
Thanksgiving with the Family
Like many colleges, Caltech gives students only Thursday and Friday off for Thanksgiving break. Lucky for me, I still got to see my family. My sister, a junior in... Read more.
Update
Before living in California, I believed that it was always sunny and warm all the time here. It has definitely gotten cooler, especially during the night: sweater... Read more.
Halloween and related festivities
As a follow up to a previous blog,I’m sorry to write that we lost our soccer game on Thursday. It was a great game though; high intensity throughout the entire... Read more.
Weekend!
This past weekend was quite eventful; I took my chem and phys quiz back to back! Just kidding well I did but what actually matters is that Caltech had its first... Read more.
Caltech Soccer
From preseason until now, soccer has been a big part of my life here at Caltech. During preseason, we usually practiced twice a day, and when school started with... Read more.
Me – a college student?
Hi readers! Sorry it’s been a while; this new college life has taken me a couple weeks to get the hang of. After preseason and a long summer’s worth... Read more.
The best of frosh camp
An advantage of going to a small school is that our incoming class is small enough that we had orientation at the Marriott at Ventura beach.We left caltech theMonday... Read more.
Welcome Class of 2016!
Sunday was an exciting day for everyone on campus because all the frosh have arrived! The soccer team had morning practice and after we came back from the gym I... Read more.
Caltech – a place for firsts not only in research
I’ve talked about how preseason prefrosh have a fair amount of free time on their hands, but not really about what we do. Instead of blogging about listing... Read more.
Room and Board
At Caltech, the dorms are split into eight houses. We are sorted into these houses after Rotation, which starts in October along with classes. During the process... Read more.
