My first (pitiful) experience with cooking ended with a reasonable success! To be frank, I didn’t make an epicurean delight, and I didn’t try to be bold with anything as this was a test run to see whether or not I COULD cook and not poison myself or burn the kitchen down. All I made [...]
Fourier Series/Transform – Last night (well technically this morning) was the fourth time I had to stay up for a prolonged time toiling over evaluating Fourier Transforms and finding Fourier series. Don’t get me wrong. The concept of Fourier series is very interesting insofar that one can express any function … well, if you factor [...]
On Friday, I had the chance to see how professors live — or at least, I got to see my lab primaryinvestigator Professor Thomas Maniatis’s home for a “farewell party” of sorts for the postdoc that I had been working with for about a year. It was an interesting experience as the only other professor [...]
For those of you curious, I am taking: MCB 192 – Principles of Drug Discovery Taught by Greg Verdine (who taught Chem 285 from my last semester), Vicki Sato (former Vertex Pharmaceuticals President and excellent lecturer – although this past lecture she gave was not at her best), and Mark Fishman (head of Novartis’s research [...]
I just came back from New York. Highlights:1) It was good to finally see my uncle and aunt, whom I haven’t seen since I was about 5. They are very nice people. People talk about how individuals take on different roles in their life. In my case, I find myself oftentimes speaking not as myself, [...]
Having finished my mathematical biology presentation and paper about bacterial quorum sensing, as well as my one and only final for my Chinese film class, I am going to embark on a trip to Long Island to visit some relatives. It’s a trip I probably should have made a while ago, as my uncle has [...]
This is my first Blogger post, just to see if this works. Which it obviously does if you (or myself) are looking at it.