Ditch Day to the Stars!
Sorry for the extremely belated post. I know I’ve been really out of touch lately, and I’ll talk more about it here. So three weeks ago, we had another... Read more.
Birthday Affairs and the Getty
This past weekend, we went out with a bunch of friends to celebrate a friend’s birthday! We first grabbed a brunch at a really cool cafe and then went to the... Read more.
Avery House’s Fake Ditch Day vs. LIGO?
A while back, the Avery seniors decided to host a fake ditch day on Thursday 2/11. It seemed like the perfect sort of day, just after midterms were due but before... Read more.
Fun and games 2
Hi all! Long time no see again. Let’s just go through the laundry list of all the fun things I’ve been up to, then I’ll tell you a bit more about... Read more.
Back to school!
Welcome back to the latest iteration of Yubo forgets to blog! I will catch you up to speed as well as talk about all my commitments this term, probably in two posts... Read more.
Jorge Cham Talk + Misc
And so it happened that Jorge Cham was invited to the Caltech Physics Colloquium to give a talk, on everything related to research except actual research. As expected,... Read more.
Michelle Feynman Visit!
Last week we got a visit from Michelle Feynman! To understand why this is exciting, one much first understand the unfairly-not-household-name Richard Feynman. Arguably... Read more.
Interviewing and Jobs!
I’m not sure if the interview process I went through is very typical, but my day was scheduled to start at 11AM on Friday and go until 5PM. I generally do... Read more.
Misc fun activities (including Ditch Day video!)
Sorry for the long delay in posting; summer is a time when the days begin to blend together, and a long time flies by without being noticed. I’ll catch you... Read more.
Celebrating America’s Birthday Away From Home
This past July 4th weekend I was able to go up to San Francisco to meet up with a bunch of friends, all from different phases of my life, and it was an absolute... Read more.
More food adventures
A few more food adventures kicked off the beginning of summer for me; I promise I’ll get back to more productive matters in a bit. First, for some incomprehensible... Read more.
The most important two points of my time at Caltech. And some cookies.
While I’m positively bursting to tell the story of my most two important points, I will go in chronological order and first talk about the delicious, delicious... Read more.
Back to back birthday bashes!
Having a birthday so near the end of the school year as me is always a dilemma, since so many friends can’t make it being busy for finals. Nonetheless, we... Read more.
My first fake Ditch!
Well, I just posted about Ditch Day, what better than to talk about my firstFake Ditch Day! For reference, at the conclusion of Ditch Day, juniors become seniors... Read more.
Action-Packed Weekend!
So as promised in the last post (though at this point much belated as usual), I promised I would talk a little bit about the Microsoft College Puzzle Challenge that... Read more.
Chicago
A much delayed blog post is better than none! You might remember two weeks ago I flew out to Chicago for a George W. Housner Fund-supported excursion to a concert... Read more.
Everyone say cheese!
So I’ve already discussed once about Faculty in Residence hosting a meal, but the regular MVP of student activities is Tom Mannion, whose official title is... Read more.
Stargazing in the Physics Lab
I promised that I would post again if I got a cool physics lab, and it turns out I really liked this most recent one, and not only because it wasn’t much work... Read more.
Kip Thorne on Interstellar
Kip Thorne, the scientific advisor for blockbuster hit Interstellar, gave a talk at Caltech a week and a half ago (sorry, I got really under water with work) about... Read more.
Hawai’i or the biggest New Years fireworks ever
This winter break I went on a family outing, just my parents and me, to Hawai’i (pronounced Hah-vye-YEE). This wasn’t initially my idea; I’d have... Read more.
Bright eyed, bushy tailed
At the end of my 2014 SURF, my mentor told me that she had submitted our project abstract to the American Geophysics Union (AGU) 2014 Fall Meeting and that should... Read more.
La Salle Pleyel, Paris’s crib of legends
After going to Vienna, the world’s heart of classical music, I suddenly realised that music is a bigger part of me than I’d ever realized. Immediately... Read more.
London
The title was spared no words because it merits no more; London, perhaps the single most diverse city on the planet. Indeed, the only thing it famously lacks from... Read more.
Wein, marred by grave mistakes
The title is a pun, as you will soon come to see. Coming to Vienna has always been a great dream of mine, as it is for any lover of classical music. So when I looked... Read more.
Venezia, City on Water
Venice, Venezia, the city on water. Yet another quintessentially Romantic city added to this itinerary. When I checked online, one person described the journey to... Read more.
Firenze, the Cradle of the Renaissance
Florence, Firenze. While Rome sports its millennia of ancient culture Florence holds its own being the birthplace of the Renaissance. Moreover I personally think... Read more.
Roma the Ancient City
This week was the Vacances de Toussaint in France, and apparently reading week all across Europe. With these nine days I chose to make a trip to Italy, being inspired... Read more.
Ville lumière, City of Love
Pictures from the city of love.... Read more.
Cities of Kings
This weekend we (myself and my friends also here at Caltech for study abroad) visited both Versailles and had the first of many days’ visits to Paris. Both... Read more.
Caltech Prefrosh Send-off
So it turns out that even though I’m home, I still cannot escape Caltech! There was a prefrosh sendoff the day I got back, and even though it’s been... Read more.
Friend visited me!
"I’m sorry I wrote such a long letter, I’d no time to write a shorter one.") and discussed what made them great.We then embarked on a 30-minute... Read more.
Goldstone Tour + Concert!
This will probably be a long post, but I’ll try my best to keep it concise! So we began with the 2.5 hour drive out the Goldstone Deep Space Communications... Read more.
Chair of Student Happiness
If there is one thing that sets Caltech apart from all other schools, aside from its terrific size and ratio and all the jazz you get to hear about from the admissions... Read more.
Most Action-packed weekend thus far!
Yay, I finally had a really fun weekend, so let me tell you all about it 😀 Thursday we got a short tour of a CUBESAT development lab. For those who don’t... Read more.
Listened to an Opportunity meeting! And to Morgan Freeman!
Today (Wednesday) we got to watch/listen in on an Opportunity meeting. They ran into some technical problems and sent out an email to us interns that they would... Read more.
Electromagnetism too hard
Ugh, this was suppposed to be such a good week, but this freaking class Ph106. I should give a bit of background on the classes I’m taking: Ph12c – Intro... Read more.
