Back home?
Posted December 20, 2018
It’s been a pretty consistent theme in my life that I don’t feel an intimate connection to a home, a place of belonging, nostalgia,...Category: Exchanges
goodbyes
Posted December 20, 2018
Goodbyes are so hard. For me, this entire past week has consisted of alternating between fermenting in the library to prepare for exams and...
Bugs
Posted December 12, 2018
Singapore lies 1.5 degrees from the equator and has a tropical rainforest climate with temperatures that constantly linger around 30 degrees Celcius. Naturally, bugs...
living my best tourist life
Posted November 16, 2018
UCL has a really strange term set up; reading week is the first week of November but exams are mid-December. Consequently, this week doesn’t...
Wine for Education?!?
Posted November 2, 2018
When I began my exchange at ETH Zürich, I did not expect to take a class in wine production techniques. In reality, the class...
mindset reset
Posted November 2, 2018
I felt academic fulfillment for the first time in a couple years this past week. For an anthropology class called Introduction to Material and...
Being sick while abroad
Posted October 17, 2018
It’s true that when you fall ill while away from your home and family, that’s when you start feeling homesick the most. I have...
Asian American in London
Posted October 1, 2018
Only two weeks have gone by since I’ve arrived in the UK but I’ve already come to realize how much of a niche I’d...
Navigating Singlish as an English-speaking foreigner
Posted September 14, 2018
While several of my exchange student friends have noted that one of their main reasons for choosing Singapore as their study abroad destination is...
Rematch
Posted September 14, 2018
The last time I was in Switzerland, Switzerland had won. On my last visit to the land of chocolate and fondue, I was romping...