No grandiose sweeping themes for this post, simply a brief fun moment from last week I wanted to share. As this year marks my first autumn away from home, I became painfully aware of the absence of a hallmark of the season, pumpkin pie. I was distraught to learn that not only was pumpkin pie […]
Growing up in California, my experiences with winter and cold have been mild at best. Now that winter has descended upon Cambridge I find myself responding to the climate in rather unusual ways. Every morning now starts with a game of “How will I Handle the Cold Today”. For example, I still try to wear T […]
As I promised in my inaugural post on this blog, I won’t be updating on a regular schedule because sometimes there just isn’t enough to write about. After taking time to reflect on the last week and a half, I finally have something worth saying. It is quite common to see people complain about having […]
My apologies for the delay between posts, I have been quite occupied each evening and have continued to put off writing this post until I had a good amount of time. Starting from last Wednesday life has been rather hectic, with research during the day and events in the evening. I shall start with the […]
Now that my back is finally healed, it seemed like a good day to have an outing in town. Of course the weather is a fickle mistress and has other plans, so I had to wait until 10:30 for a sunny gap within a rain storm to explore. Today’s destination was the Cambridge University Botanical […]
The past week has been a fairly calm one, with just research during the day and relaxing in my room at night. The days have been getting noticeably shorter, to the point where the sun is almost setting by the time I leave lab at 5. Eventually I will be coming home at nighttime, so I […]
While the past weekend was mostly spent at home or running errands around town, a few events did occur that will have lasting repercussions. The most important of these was matriculation on Saturday, which is a rather sophisticated way of describing orientation. Apart from a rainy class photo and sitting through talks on administrative affairs, […]
Now that I’ve taken care of the major concerns with setting into a new school, I can finally get around to working on my thesis here. Monday was my first full day in the lab, though safety interrupted the middle of week so very little progress was made until Thursday. Now would be an appropriate time […]
As I said in my first post, I do not intend to post on a regular basis given the irregular nature of my time abroad, in case anyone was confused by the gap between posts. I have now just about settled into my house in Cambridge, after a few days of orientation and welcome events. […]
So as I alluded to on Sunday, a lot has happened between leaving London and arriving in Cambridge. To summarize my journey in brief, I traveled to Edale via Manchester to start hiking the Pennine Way, England’s oldest National Trail. From there I hiked 16 miles to Crowden to spend the night, and another 11 […]