So, today is the last day of this wonderful program, and I am quite sorry to realize this fact. The dorm rooms are experiencing a high degree of chaos, people are running past our door at around one person per five seconds, and nobody seems to plan on sleeping. Of course the universal plan is […]
Of course the memorable event of today was our seeing the 6th Harry Potter movie, a film that although it may not seem so at first glance, this is a movie that has a lot to do with the scientific and artistic concepts that we so often discuss. A striking fictional element within the […]
It was so cute. Black in color and extremely smooth to the touch, we gazed in the adoration as it playfully traveled around the little blue plate. Our precious ferrofluid. We were proud. Today was essentially the very first time we got to “get our hands dirty”, this expression in our case […]
Today was a relatively unconventional day, we had Victoria Vesna come and speak to us about her career as an artist, and the way that her life was very random and took her in so many directions from her home country of Lebanon to school in Jakarta, Indonesia and then all over the United States. […]
As we walked to our daily movie today, Brent stopped and pointed to the sky, “I like looking at the sky from here because the yellow leaves make the sky look purple.” We looked up; it was true, the light must have bent differently. And I could not help thinking that the theme of […]
As I found out today, more than 250,000 people die of cancer every year in the US. This is a grim statistic, a statistic which doubtlessly inspired countless people to engage in the battle with tis frequently fatal disease. Progressive research in the area of nanotechnology as it relates to targeted medicinal delivery is quickly […]
I sat on the wooden floor of a dark and serene room, completely calm and aware of my surroundings. The room was dark except for the neon projection of jelloey structures floating on the wall surface. I used the motion of my shadow to manipulate these floating bubbles using slow, intentional motions, unknowingly slipping further […]