Black Tie, Garden Hike

Simba and I exploring the garden.

Last weekend was another eventful couple of days in Santa Barbara. One of my fellow lab members and his housemates were hosting what they dubbed the 4th Annual Wine and Cheese Conviviality.

Famous Firsts

For my first official Trivia Tuesday segment, I’ve decided to go with the theme of famous firsts. I’ll start on a galactic scale with the first planet from the sun.

Yosemite Adventures

Even though I grew up in California, I never truly appreciated how close I lived to one of the greatest national parks in the world.

Feynman vs. Gell-Mann

Tuesday Trivia is a weekly segment, introduced here, that will highlight anything I find interesting and fun to learn. Today’s post will just be about why trivia is important (a contradictory statement) with a little bit of trivia sprinkled in.

Night Out, Beach Day, Locked Out

The past few months in Santa Barbara have been a combination of long weekdays filled with studying and research  and ephemeral weekends crammed with exploration and adventure. Friday night, as we do often, Kierstin, Simba, and I walked down to State Street.

First Day of Discussion

I taught my first discussion lesson on Monday.