Caltech

My First 3D Print!

The Caltech Techlab gives members of the Caltech community free access to 3D printing. It is located in the Sherman Fairchild Library, and any registered user can use it when the library is open. There are currently 4 working printers that can be used for personal projects, and additional printers that can be used for school-related projects. To become a registered user, all you have to do is sign up for a training session. During the training session, you learn... Read more →

Bobalicious

Greetings everyone – I’ve got some unfortunate news. It’s been a boring week. You heard that right, I, Andrew, am letting you down in terms of my off-campus adventures. Minus the whole San Diego thing that is. But I did manage to make my weekly run to get boba. In-fact. I enjoyed it so much that I made my weekly run to get boba 6 times. Probably too many times. But it just happened without me actually trying to get... Read more →

San Diego… Round 4??

I’m baaaaack! In SAN DIEGO!!! Wait. What? San Diego?? I’m practically a UCSD student! It’s the 4th time I’ve been there this year! 3 times for fencing, once for my friend’s birthday. I really have been spending a lot more time than I’d been anticipating spending down South, but San Diego is really growing on me a lot. It’s a beautiful place and somehow the weather is even better than Pasadena. What was I doing there this time? NCAA Regionals!!!!!... Read more →

LACMA

Caltech is starting a new Visual Culture program funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and headed by the Caltech Humanities and Social Sciences Department. The program will include new courses, a postdoctoral instructor, artists-in-residence, guest lecturers, and the addition of a visual culture professor to the faculty. The first artist-in-residence is Leslie Thornton, who is an experimental filmmaker. She'll be teaching a class on the concept of time in filmmaking next term, which seems really interesting! As part of... Read more →

Ski Trip!

Every year, Page has their ski trip at the start of second term. We go to Mammoth Ski Resort, and spend Thursday or Friday night to Sunday morning there. Typically, we stay in the same few cabins every year, and since this is my 4th year on Page ski trip, I can recognize many of the rooms :P On the first day (Friday), I went skiing. It was a beautiful sunny day, so it was nice and warm with my... Read more →

Flea-ing Responsibility

Today I bought I roll of Gorilla tape and a deck of SeaWorld playing cards for $5. No, I wasn’t using Craigslist or at a garage sale. I wasn’t thrifiting or sifting through the racks at the one-dollar store, I went to the Pasadena City College (PCC) Flea Market! I’d been meaning to do this for a very long time – as a kid I was super big into going to flea markets and exploring for trading cards, fossils, or... Read more →

Bro-ba – Marcel and I Did it Again

Hey party people! Or not party people. Normal people. Parents of prospective/admitted Caltech students. We’re back again with another BobavendtureTM. I was asked to cater boba for Hacktech, the annual Caltech Hackathon. The numbers: 500 people, 5 gallons of honey, one case of half and half, 6 pots of tea, and a case and a half of tapioca pearls. We did this a little differently though – Marcel and I made all of the tea the morning of (we served... Read more →

My Photo Wall

Because I’m sick this week, I’m going to take the opportunity to write about something I’ve had saved to post for a while: my photo wall and my quote board. Each Caltech student decorates their room in a way that’s representative integrally of their personality – and for me that’s with photos. I have about 70 photos on my walls. My photos are from all four years of high school through last year and this summer. I’ve been meaning to... Read more →

Sickness.

I’m really sick. Again. This seems to happen about once a year or so where I’ll catch a nasty cold somewhere in-between December and February, suffer for a few weeks, and then miraculously recover like nothing happened. And well, that’s where we are right now. There’s a phenomenon at Caltech known as the frosh plague, and I believe I’ve caught a strain of that. The frosh plague occurs because we’re all living in very close quarters in the dorms, and... Read more →

Ski Trips!

Almost every house at Caltech runs their own ski trip. The members of social teams choose a weekend to reserve a cabin at resorts like Big Bear or Mammoth Mountain, and offer this accomodation for their members for the weekend for people to go skiing and snowboarding at these resorts. As I’m a part of two houses, Avery and Blacker, I get the chance to go on both - which I am happy I got to do this year! Usually... Read more →