Viterbi Voices

This weekend has been full of long, extended study sessions. Materials science, physics, a paper for my GE, and some computer programming -- there has been a lot to do! So, naturally, I decided to take a break and compose a list of my favorite ways to study: 1. With friends -- study groups can be super helpful for classes like physics or materials science where you have a lot of problems that a...more

I went ice skating today! It was a lot of fun, but it was a really weird feeling to go ice skating in warm weather. At home, I get bundled up in scarves, gloves, and layers upon layers of clothing in the winter. It is a ritual every time you go outside in the winter in the Midwest, and you have to allow yourself an extra ten minutes at least to get ready before leaving the house (excluding time to...more

Even after a long day of classes, writing papers, going to work, and sorority meetings I was SO down for a night out with a bunch of friends. 8 of us piled into my friends party van last night and started heading west to the beach. There has been a big meteor shower happening this week all around the world and we needed to get out of downtown LA and all of the light pollution in the city to see it...more

On Tuesday night I took a break from homework and joined AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) for a social event of old-school roller skating in a local indoor rink. About twenty students, most if not all are Chemical Engineering majors, piled into cars and drove about ten minutes west of campus to get our skate on. I have gone indoor roller skating once before during college with my s...more

My big project of the semester is almost OVER, which means I can actually have a good time on my birthday!  Tomorrow's my 21st birthday and I couldn't be more excited!!  Tonight is my sororities formal, aka at midnight it turns into my birthday party...and then hopefully when i get back to campus I'll go bar hopping downtown.  Then, tomorrow is DISNEYLAND!! annnnd it's decorated for christmas.�...more

Wow, so it's been a while hasn't it? Sorry for the lapse. It's been a busy few weeks during the peak of the semester, but I'm pulling through and am still managing to have some fun along the way. On tap for this week are a couple standard engineering assignments, as well as a final project for my MATLAB class. But finally taking the spotlight this week are some more enjoyable events. I've decid...more

Hmmmmmm is what we say when we get ready to dig into a good meal, when we are relaxing, or when we are just trying to make it through life.  In some instances, we will use this expression over the course of a very short time. For me, I used "hmmmmmm" in nearly all three cases today, and in the past week in general. Considering Case I, I had a great Turkey Meal at the 29th Street Cafe, which...more

I have a very busy week ahead of me. I have a lot of work to do in my classes: BME 404: project (pediatric femoral fracture fixation using elastic intramedullary nails) BME 403: homework, maybe look at the MATLAB assignment AME 302: homework, project AME 309: homework mobio: lots of reading But I can't let my homework get in the way of my plans for the weekend and what I'll be doing over...more

So my latest life crisis involves my running playlist for when I go to work out. My ipod, which is semi-broken, can only hold about 10 songs for some reason. This wouldn't be too much of a problem except for one thing - 10 songs doesn't allow me to put both my Taylor Swift and my Miley Cyrus music on my ipod. So I have been forced to choose between the two lately, which has been extremely unfortun...more

It's getting to the point in the semester that we are tired, just plain tired.  As of right now, I have exactly two weeks (10 days) left in the semester.  10 days.  Two to finish off this week, three next week, and then a full 5 day week post-Thanksgiving.  If I can hang on that long.  This has been the semester of unending work, arguably brought on entirely as a result of my own fault in tak...more

For the past week I've been especially busy with my project for ISE-232 Manufacturing Processes. My team came up with the idea of a solar powered beach umbrella... imagine being able to charge your laptop or power iPod speakers while out on the sand!  As we near the end of our project, we are in the final stages of building a functional prototype (a working model of the product on a smaller scale...more

This year I'll be having two Thanksgivings.  I'm flying home this weekend to visit my family and have an early Thanksgiving, but I'll be spending Thanksgiving proper in Los Angeles. So what are my plans?  Well, I'll give you a hint that they mainly involve food, food, and more food.  I baked my second pumpkin pie today so I can make sure that the final one on November 26th turns out perfectl...more

Indeed Frankie Valli, what a night. But I have a feeling my night went a little different than yours… First off, it was the second Friday of November, not “December back in ‘63” and my roommate and I were headed to Malibu to see our friend play in Pepperdine’s performance of “Sweeny Todd”, the play. It had already been an eventful week—an OChem test on Wednesday, followed by a f...more

Today we had a Biomechanics lecture in our professor's lab, far far off campus.  Actually, it wasn't that far off campus, just at the very edge of the tram route.  We were supposed to be at the lab at 5:20.  But of course, things start going wrong....At 4:45, I was with a classmate waiting for the tram that's supposed to run every half hour.  But there was traffic, and so it got there at 5:15....more

Sorry I haven't been around the last couple weeks! It's been so busy. Midterms are over now!! (Hopefully, I might have one more next Monday... but my professor hasn't decided yet, cross your fingers!) So what is new in my life. Not much to say the truth... I am going out to Yogurtland with my girlfriend in half an hour, so I am excited about that. I also can't wait to go home next week for Thanksg...more