Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Madelina”
Hi folks! When you finally settle on a college, everyone will undoubtably ask you why you chose your school. When I first was accepted to USC, I didn’t have an answer to this question. Slowly but surely, however, USC won me over and I could not be happier to be a Trojan. I was not a Trojan fan from the start. …
Hi everyone! I hope you’re all having a wonderful day wherever you are – This past week I had the opportunity to visit Indonesia as my second to last trip in Southeast Asia. It was an unbelievable experience seeing Bali, Lombok, Mount Rinjani, and Gili Air Island. Selamat Datang di Indonesia! (Welcome to Indonesia! in Bahasa) BALI ISLAND We arrived …
Hi folks! Being abroad it is always nice to stop and reflect on just how great it is to be home – in the spirit of home I’d like to share with you a little about the places I’ve called home over the past couple years at USC as well as the current place I’ve just started calling home in …
Maligayang pagdating sa Pilipinas! (Welcome to the Philippines! in Filipino/Tagolog) Our trip to the Philippines was one of the most physically and emotionally exhausting in many ways. Not only did we spend way too many hours on cramped ferries traveling to distant islands, but we also saw some of the starkest and most brutal poverty in Southeast Asia. When looking …
Hi everyone! I hope your day is exciting, wherever you are and whatever you’re doing 🙂 These past few weeks in Singapore have gone by in a flash – its hard to believe I’ve already been in Singapore for more than two months, which means there is less than two months to go! I know I’m going to miss this place so …
Hello folks! I hope you’re all enjoying a great season this March – and for all of you starting to make college decisions, I wish you the best of luck in finding what place is home for you (and I hope it’s USC – Id love to welcome you to the Trojan family!) Selamat datang ke Borneo! (Welcome to Borneo! …
Hi folks! Here is the last blog of my recess week travels, which concluded in Vietnam! When I look back on Vietnam, I will remember it most clearly as the Vietnam experience, as these four days had a fair share of highs and lows. Chào mừng bạn đến Việt Nam ! (Welcome to Vietnam! in Vietnamese) Every now and then …
Hi everyone! As promised again, here is my blog about my short trip to Laos – and its probably the most fun one so far! I finally got to see (and ride no less) an elephant, which justifies the plethora of elephant print clothing sold everywhere here. ຍິນດີຕ້ອນຮັບ ລາວ ! (Welcome to Laos! in Lao) Of course, the one time we …
Hello Everyone! As promised here is my blog about my layover in Bangkok! It was a short trip, but jam packed with lots of neat experiences. ยินดีต้อนรับสู่ประเทศไทย! (Welcome to Thailand! in Thai) We descended over the city into brown smoke. There is no sky in Bangkok, only pollution and smoke and dust. It was almost painful to see our plane …
Hello everyone! This past week I had the amazing opportunity to travel to several countries, which I will be posting about soon. The first, and the place where I spent the most time, was Myanmar. Read on if you’d like to hear a little more about this amazing experience. *** Also as an important note – an interesting engineering project …
Hi everyone! This week I’ll be sharing with you all about some of my favorite USC traditions from home as well as some of my new favorite Singapore traditions here at NUS. They might be 8,769 miles apart, but it’s neat to see how people celebrate with the same school spirit in both places! USC Game Days At USC, there is …
Hi everyone! Today I’d like to share with you all about my favorite class this semester here in Singapore. There’s a lot of great choices to choose from, as I’m taking all engineering courses this spring (which clearly means my course load is really cool). However, I think my favorite so far has been my biomedical electronics class, BN3401. In …
Hi everyone – Happy February (and Happy Almost Valentine’s Day!) In the spirit of the season of love, here’s a cool quote by Da’Vinci about LOVING studying! “Study without desire spoils the memory and retains nothing that it takes in.” – Leonardo Da’Vinci This week we’re talking about study spots (which after my last post about Cambodia …
Cambodia is a country of dirt streets and motorcycles and sandals and burning trash and dust-filled skies and houses made of wood and hammocks hung from Bamboo trees and chickens and leaves painted the rustic red-brown of volcanic clay. After decades of conquest – raided by Thailand and Vietnam, inhabited as a colony by the French, and bombed by the …
Hello everyone, I hope this email finds you enjoying a wonderful start to second semester – this spring is shaping up to be super duper exciting! I hope all of you have an amazing second semester filled with lots of surprises and blessings 🙂 Salutations from Singapore! (English) 來自新加坡的問候 ! (Chinese) सिंगापुर से बधाई ! (Hindi) salam dari Singapura ! …
Hi everyone! I hope you’re all enjoying a wonderful holiday season (best of luck with exams to everyone in school!) At the end of a great semester I think its important to look back and be grateful for all the great memories – so the theme of this blog is the TEN best memories from this Fall! I listed the …
Hi everyone! Happy November – I hope you are all enjoying this Thanksgiving season – at USC we are starting to gear up for finals and are looking forward to enjoying some much needed vacation! When I first considered going to college, Los Angeles was on the bottom of my list. I thought I would dislike living in such a …
“Okay, Okay, Okay Okay Okay Hey!” (^ This is one of our Troy Camp chants to get everyone’s attention – it sounds better in person with the whole group 🙂 ) There are very few places in this world where we let out the weirdest, most loud and childlike part of ourselves, and can then be totally socially accepted. I …
Hi everyone – I hope you are enjoying the beautiful changing autumn season as you read this! This week I’d like to tell you about all things non-engineering – I love my major (which you can read a little about in my post from last week about the Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering), but it’s the whole spectrum of extracurriculars, …
Hi everyone! I hope you are enjoying a beautiful autumn season as you read this – change of weather is in the air, leaves are falling, rain clouds are forming, and its starting to feel like fall, which is so lovely here at USC! One of the most exciting and nerve-wracking aspects of college is the way reality sits on …