Hi there, and happy Monday! It's been a great weekend, I hope you all had good weekends too. I was lucky enough to go to Catalina Island, and if you end up at Caltech you should go too. It's relatively close (you can take a ferry from Long Beach) and…

Hello and happy Monday! I'm still resting up from the super busy week. Hopefully I can get properly rested before camping next weekend. On Friday, the new supervisor for the KPCB fellows program took me and one other intern out to lunch. The Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers Fellows Program…

Hey there! It's been a pretty busy weekend. On Friday, Airware officially moved out of its site and into a new, fancier one. I did no work. I spent all day moving and helping other people move. The internet shut off at 3 and I went home shortly after that.…

Hi there! It's been a week and a half now since I finished school and started work. I finished out my week of work pretty well, I think. On Friday, I left work and hopped on the BART (the SF subway system) to go visit Boyfriend in Livermore. He's a…

Hi there, everyone! My oh my, we have had quite a weekend. On Thursday at 8am, seniors all over campus ran around the houses yelling "WAKE UP IT'S DITCH DAY!". Excited underclassmen sprang out of bed and rushed to sign up for stacks. I got to be part of the…

Hello! Today is Thursday of Week 9. The countdown is real - only one more week of classes. I'm probably going to make it. Today I got to do something that felt like a break - I got to visit the Huntington Library with my Irish Literature class. Huntington Library…

Hi there! I did nothing for two days this weekend. By which I mean, I did no work. On Friday morning, we had a fake stack! The premise was just to catch all the seniors in your house and tape them to trees. I successfully tackled two seniors but we…

Hello! This Thursday is class registration. Everyone who's currently here will register for our fall classes. Last term there were technical issues and we had to split registration between upper- and underclassmen. Apparently those issues have not been resolved so we'll be doing that again this term; the first twenty…

Hi there, It's been a while, I know. I've been working super hard this term. TA'ing takes a lot out of my schedule but my predicament has gotten easier since I stopped having six hours of volleyball every week. Now I can pick which time I spend on exercise, so…

Day 7: Friday, March 25 Today is my last volunteering day! I have "project" today, which means I will be helping construct stairs. Everyone has a project day, 3 clinic days, and a reality tour day. Each clinic sends maybe 5 people/day to the project. On Thursday, the project team…

Day 4: Tuesday, Mar 22 Today my alarm was set for 5:45 am. We were scheduled to bus out at 6:30, so I quickly grabbed breakfast (bread, eggs, OJ) and dressed, basically heading straight out the door. Today is our first clinic day! We're at the Villanueva (?) district today,…

Day 5: Wednesday, Mar 23 I'm really tired today. There was noise in the common area until midnight. Jenny keeps her toothbrush in a crinkly supermarket bag and she woke me up at midnight (and again at 4:30) trying to brush her teeth. Plus we can't close our window to…

Day 3: Monday, Mar 21 Today we woke up at 7, but the lobby was bustling before that, so I woke up around 6:30. Breakfast was already in the dining room. Today there were scrambled eggs and peanut butter in addition to the bread, butter, jam, and bananas. I had…

Hello everyone! I just got back from the Caltech Y's Alternative Spring Break trip to Peru. The Y is an organization that used to be connected to the YMCA but is no longer; they handle a lot of volunteer coordination and camping trips. Every year the Y organizes a service-based…

Happy International Women's Day! Today is a good day to reflect on all the positive things in my life as a woman. It's also a good day to think about the things that stand in my way, and in the way of all women. As an American citizen, I am…

Hello! So as I've mentioned in many previous posts, I'm a Health Advocate in training here at Caltech. That means I receive my EMR (emergency medical responder) certification and equipment for free in exchange for being "on call" in my house all the time. Lots of Health Ads are premed.…

Hi there! I had a pretty good weekend. I took a day off and did things that make me happy, like grocery shopping and cooking. At the end of Saturday, I went out with two of my housemates and another friend of our for a girls' night. Stop 1 was…

It's cold. Let's be clear. When I say it's cold, I don't mean like... East Coast cold. It's about 50°F outside. We don't have snow; we don't even have rain most of the time. It's windy and chilly and I kinda want to just sit at home with hot food…