Dourmet Dishes
I’m trying to get consistent with meal prep this term. Busy weeknights usually find me floundering at the thought of actually cooking and resorting to the... Read more.
RBG
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, affectionately known as the Notorious RBG, is a soft-spoken, eighty-five year old woman who stands just an inch over five feet tall. She’s... Read more.
Three-Ingredient Peanut-Butter Cookies
I’m usually suspicious of recipes with click-bait titles like this one. "Simple" and "easy" and "N-ingredient" baked goods have... Read more.
Watching the Perseid Meteor Trickle
It was 10pm on a Sunday night, and as I’d been lazing around all afternoon, I decided to drive up to a nature park to watch the Perseid Meteor Shower. I pulled... Read more.
Dourmet Dishes
This is the part of a series of posts on food that can be prepared in a dorm kitchen amidst the craziness of life at Caltech. I absolutely love peanut butter. Whether... Read more.
My Favorite Class Last Term
Wouldn’t it be neat to look at something magnified to tens of thousands its normal size—so much that you can see the individual hair follicles on an ant (and... Read more.
My Favorite Course of Freshman Year
A year ago, I was an excited prefrosh savoring the sweet scent of orange blossoms as I explored Caltech’s campus with my family. We’d come during finals week,... Read more.
Joshua Tree, the Bee’s Knees
I blogged about my trip to Joshua Tree National Park once already, but it was totally the bee’s knees, so here’s round two—in photos. Lizard. Bee. Tree. More... Read more.
Why I Love Caltech’s Cafeteria
Freshman year of Caltech is over, and—besides friends, clubs, and maybe classes— there’s one thing I’ll really miss this summer. Every weekday morning this... Read more.
Liquid O2 is Blue
I didn’t know that liquid oxygen is blue until last Friday, when my physics professor brought it to class and let us play with the three-hundred-Celsius-below-zero... Read more.
Good Night Sunrise
Last weekend I slept in a tent in the desert with three friends, squeezed together side by side like sardines, while infants’ wails rang from the tent in front... Read more.
My First 짜장면 (Jajangmyeon)
Today, for the first time, my friends and I cooked Korean food on our own. My mom is Korean, and when she makes Korean food, I’m typically assigned the task of... Read more.
Brioche + Berries + Bollywood
It was a fun Sunday evening. First, there was dessert. Then there was dancing. Brioche is French butter bread. It has a soft, velvety texture and a rich, slightly... Read more.
Swedish Meatballs
Meal planning, among many other things, is difficult when you’re indecisive. It’s even more so when you have a big book of four-hundred recipes out of America’s... Read more.
Ge 1 Field Trip (Part 2)
At the end of my last post, I was riding the bus towards camp and dinner. That night, after a hearty pasta dinner, we explored the camp. Behind our cabin was a hill,... Read more.
Ge 1 Field Trip (Part 1)
I never planned to take geology in college. I knew nothing about earth science and was perfectly fine leaving things that way. I was just never interested in rocks.... Read more.
Succulents at the Huntington Gardens
What type of plant is prickly and ugly—nothing but a nuisance? Not cacti, I’m now convinced after visiting the Huntington Gardens. Only a fifteen-minute walk... Read more.
Plants on Campus
When I was choosing a college, there was one aspect of Caltech which I could not get out my head. It wasn’t its rigorous academics, its world-renowned research,... Read more.
Sweet as Sugar
It was a dark and stormy night, and I had a research proposal to write and two electronics projects to complete. The pileup of work was somewhat self-inflicted,... Read more.
The Not-So-Silly Goose
Geese are not silly. They are savage. Last weekend, my friend and I spotted some by a pond. One was curled up cozily on the ground, its velvety black head resting... Read more.
Hollywood Hiking
School stress had me feeling mopey, so I called my mom. She told me that she loved college—she went on hiking trips and other adventures all the time. So I planned... Read more.
College Cooking
Ah, nothing like two hot gooey slices of chocolate-drizzled, chocolate-chip-embedded mocha chocolate cake to keep me up past my bedtime. I planned to sleep early... Read more.
