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Providence (Not Rhode Island)

Providence. Oxford Dictionaries defines providence as the protective care of God or of nature as a spiritual power, timely preparation for future eventualities. I’m not sure how that applies to this weekend. But last weekend we went to Providence the restaurant. Now normally this isn’t exactly a restaurant that as a poor college student I’d be able to afford, but my friend Michael had a gift card from his birthday in last July and I was fortunate that the first... Read more →

Huntington Gardens with H132

This past weekend, our Humanistic Ecology class had a field trip to the Huntington Gardens. Our professor, Dan Lewis, also works as a curator there and has access to its incredible archives. Although the class is about the impact of humans on ecosystems, the field trip was more of an opportunity to learn about the development of ideas in ecology, and to gush over the important manuscripts. We started off the day looking at printing blocks made of lime stone.... Read more →

Life’s Looking Pretty Beachy

Welcome to part 2 of “Chandrew has a friend in town and is procrastinating his schoolwork by hanging out with him”! Also known as “It’s a Sunday so we went to the beach”. We specifically went to my old favorite beach – the place I went the first time I came to Los Angeles: Santa Monica! After a quick lunch in the morning of In-N-Out (gotta get that 3x3 and animal style fries every day), we took the trek out... Read more →

Griffith Adventure Land

Greetings from La La Land! Actually, pretty much the top of La La Land. No, I didn’t make a trip out to Mt. Baldy; I did that last year and I suffered enough on that hike! So long story short, one of my friends, Dave, is visiting from Colorado. He’s looking at moving out here some time next year (now pretty sure that he’s going to make the move) and so he figured tot come out for a few days... Read more →

Ditch Day 2019

This past Friday was ditch day, the day that seniors are the most deprived and every one else is most excited for. Ditch day is supposed to be a surprise, i.e. whenever you ask a senior about when Ditch day is, they would answer "go to bed, ditch day is tomorrow". However, there are subtleties on campus that you can pick up such that you can anticipate when it will really happen. In the past few years, ditch day has... Read more →

OC Can You Say?

It’s Sunday night and you know what that means: FOOD! TRUCK! ROAD! TRIP! (minus the truck part of the food truck). In other words, Eric and I drove an hour to Irvine to go to the Orange County Night Market. Funny enough, I saw the announcement for this event a few months ago on Facebook and figured “hey, why not?”. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, the night market is somewhat of a county-fair style thing, only the... Read more →

Watts the Matter?

Fasten your seatbelts, attach your climbing harness to your jetpack, it’s time for FIELD TRIP 2019 EDITION! But Andrew, you say, you aren’t in any geology classes this term. And you’re right. This was something special. Something unique. Something just odd enough to be beautiful: an English field trip. English field trips are different. It’s not about going out and collecting samples, or getting long, painful lectures about rocks. Instead it’s about getting out and exploring the world, placing your... Read more →

Pershing Square!

Hello hello people! I present to you a wonderful photograph of The Palace in DTLA! But wait a second! That’s not the title of this post! This post is supposed to be about Pershing Square! And it is – I took a late-night trip to Pershing Square to explore and take photos. Yet again, this is a wonderful byproduct of my class English 180 – a mixed architecture/English class. And today I started doing some research for my architect presentation:... Read more →

Some Late-Night Stress-Saving Food Runs

Midterms kept up its unrelenting attack on my sanity this week – at least a little bit. And how did I solve this? Two words. Stress. Eating. Some of my friends say that I post too much about food on this blog, but to the contrary I think that I don’t post enough about food. So that’s why I’m writing the chronicles about my stress eating binges for the week. And the weekend. Even though I wasn’t exactly stressed this... Read more →

Oh Capitan, El Capitan!

Hey fronds. Anemones. Other oceanly characters who have made the trip out to the Caltech blogs for a brief respite of fun under the sun (or fun at the behest of a written blog post). We’re under a sea, I guess. It’s raining in April and late at night. But the weather works in mysterious ways as do the ways of the world in general. I’m up late tonight. How late? Very late. Approximately 3 AM if we’re being totally... Read more →