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 fake ditch day. This one in particular was a campus-wide fake, which was part of an entire day's worth of events…

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 Getty Center. Let me tell you the story in slightly more detail and then gush about my single favorite…

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 too many other sets came up, and it left more room in the year in case we wanted to…

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 my life here at the good ol' California Institute of Technology. First, a friend heard about some DineLA deal,…

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 so as not to make the post too long I got used to just wearing perpetually damp sneakers…

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, it was a talk laced with lethal doses of humor in the usually uneventful halls of Bridge Lecture Hall, but it hit…

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 the most popular physicist of the 20th century for his whimsy and way with words matched only by his "exuberant command over the native materials of…

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 my best when I'm fully relaxed though, so I took the effort to wake up extra and walk over…

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 all up in two posts, one talking about everything fun I did (serving as a photo dump) and one with…

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 blast of a time getting to see everybody! I could give the full itinerary, but it…

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 yet scrumptious reason, Tom Mannion hosted yet another campus-wide food event, this time themed around delicious crabs. I only had time…

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 cookies I baked with a friend. A good friend of mine, also a pianist, has often baked cookies and just left them outside…

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 still managed to have a nice celebration or two. A birthday celebration in Avery House generally at leastincludes one planned…

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 and seniors become "ghosts." Thus, while Ditch Day is an institute holiday,FakeDitch Days are simple days of hour-long activities planned by the…

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 we attended last weekend. So here we go.The Microsoft College Puzzle Challenge is exactly what it sounds like, apuzzle challenge.…

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 given by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. So let me relate that much-awaited tale. The day began at 5:30 AM on…

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 "Senior Director, Student Activities and Programs" but is more colloquially recognized as the "chair of student happiness." Why he is so called comes as…

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 (in case I haven't mentioned it before, this class lets you choose the labs you do, so…