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Farmer's Market and Goat Yoga

Yes, you read that correctly: Goat Yoga. Doing yoga with baby goats around is actually real thing. Most of you would probably think that it's bizarre, but it's actually pretty fun and exciting. I had the opportunity to try goat yoga at a farmer's market event put together by my internship, and I can affirm that it's worth trying once in your life. So the farmer's market event is more to promote healthy eating and sustainable food choices, and the... Read more →

Exploring Pasta-bilities

Apologies for the bad pun, but I had to do it. I've been on a severe pasta kick lately and have been eating way too much carbs and cheese that my semi-lactose intolerant body can handle. It doesn't help that the friend I usually hangout with loves bolognese and will gladly eat it any meal and every meal. Over the past two months, I've checked out a LOT of pasta places on the west side and have now formed my... Read more →

A Day at the Getty Museum

The Getty Museum is one of the most iconic LA landmarks. After getting an aerial view of it from my quick flying experience, I really wanted to go. I can't believe that after living in LA for the past three years, I never bothered to make my way there. It is slightly far from campus, but it's still quite accessible. A lot of freshmen tend to go during their summer SURFs, but somehow it evaded me. Nevertheless, it's never too... Read more →

The City That Never Sleeps

Last weekend, another Techer and I drove down to New York City to spend a weekend visiting friends, seeing the sights, and eating food of course. Being that I am originally from the Midwest and go to school on the west coast, this is my first time really seeing the east coast and my first trip to New York City. We met up and stayed with a recent Caltech alum who generously let us sleep on her couch for the... Read more →

M’laysia

Hello hello! I celebrated Singapore’s national day this weekend… By going to Malaysia! So funny thing about Singapore national day – it’s not exactly the fourth of July. In-fact, most people I knew were either going on holiday, or had people visiting them. Apparently, you must get tickets for the national day parade months in advance. I didn’t do that, and I didn’t want to stick around for the fireworks. So, I grabbed two of my friends (two interns from... Read more →

Ending on a High Note

Well, after 8 weeks of delicious food and good friends, I started having to say the first of my goodbyes in Singapore this week. I’d been hoping to catch up on blog posts this week but yikes I fell even further behind. My best friend from fencing, Alvin, is fencing in Taiwan next week, so I won’t get to see him before I leave. And that’s very sad. I’m starting to miss Singapore already, and I’m still here for a... Read more →

The Hunt For Red Chicktober

I finally did the one thing I’d been trying to do for my entire time in Singapore – got the second Michelin starred hawker stall’s food. This might not seem like a huge deal (after all, it was just chicken and rice) but I had been battling with this stall to find its food. This was my THIRD time going – seemingly every time I went it was closed. And so, I suppose it was a fitting beginning of the... Read more →

The I-Couldn’t-Think-of-a-Pun-But- Was-At-a-Conference-This-Week Post

Hello from Suntec City! Well, actually I’m writing this from home, but I was at the Suntec mall/convention center all week for the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society convention. I’ve spent my week going to talks, perusing the poster presentations, enjoying the fine dining of the Suntec for the week. This was much smaller than the AGU conference I went to last winter, but it was very nice. I attended a couple of great talks, learned a lot, and made a... Read more →

A Real Live MUMMY

So far in Boston I have visited two different art museums, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). Although the museums were fairly close to each other, I did visit on different days. Both are very accessible from the green line, which was super convenient considering how blistering hot Boston has been lately. Also, something I learned recently is that MIT students get into both art museums for free by just showing their ID, so... Read more →

First Time Piloting

One of the perks of working next to the Santa Monica airport is that you have plenty of co-workers with pilot licenses who are eager to take you on a ride when code just takes too long to run. Recently, when my code completely broke and was taking ages to rebuild, I went flying with an alum. He took up piloting a couple years after graduating and earned his license after ~60 hours of piloting. The airport was pretty empty... Read more →