When I grow up, I want to . . . My lovely RWS professor assigned this blog today, and I wanted to include the words she used to underline its importance: If we don’t have goals, we probably won’t achieve the things we dream about. If we don’t identify those things, we may not reach …
A couple months ago, I was invited to speak to a class of freshman on my advice for them. What lies below are the main pieces of advice I had for them in going through college. I think it’s important to remember that everyone has different definitions of success; for some, its might be finding …
In November, I had the honor of being one of ten undergraduate students selected from across the country for a scholarship to the American Medical Informatics Symposium in San Francisco, California. There, I learned more about what informatics is – the art and science at the intersection of computer/data science and health care. It was …
While an image of sitting on spiky fenceposts certainly conjures a few giggles from a wide audience, its consequences aren’t as funny. We’re taught mainly to evaluate other people’s writing in our primary & secondary education; only rarely are we encouraged to express(or form, for that matter) our own opinions. I find it ironic that …
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James Paul Gee, a professor at UCLA wrote an introduction to language. And not just grammar, I mean real language. How the context of a situation underscores the necessary syntax we use. It’s why we have such a hard time interpreting foreign languages. Without context, those words are just bunches of letters, clumped together like …
This is me, the friend you never knew you needed. I’m the girl who often ignores her own needs to help those around her. It’s a cloak I assumed in the throes of insecurity in middle school, when I thought helping people was the easiest way to fit in, and it’s a cloak I drew …
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The Ace Hotel is a grand old place in Downtown LA, but not such a great place to find parking. I circled it for what felt like hours in the June heat, but must have been about 20 minutes. Finally I gave
Now that I’ve had a while to collect myself after the Do-Lab’s dream world – Lightning in a Bottle – arguably the best time of my life, here are my top five moments from the festival: Desert Hearts: If you’ve never heard of Desert Hearts before, you’re missing out. This San Diego-based touring house team …
As a recovering Yelp addict, I used to always want to know where the best spots were, what was trending, what people enjoyed. In San Diego, I visited new restaurants, museums, installations, photo spots. I compared my experiences to those I found on Instagram, Pinterest, Yelp, Facebook. Then I realized I always went in with …
My freshman year at San Diego State, I took a sustainable development class and we talked a lot about all the aspects of sustainability. The definition of sustainable is “able to be maintained at a certain rate or level.” It’s not just recycling and cleaning beaches. It’s not just bringing reusable bags to the grocery store …