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11.25.18 sunday Another trip home, another drink (this drink tasted like liquid dessert tho it was so sweet and filling). Had a SUPER restful few days of Thanksgiving break after a lot of stress from the last week. Met up with a few people, saw most of the people on my dads side of the family over Thanksgiving, and ate a lot of good food. Made a few online purchases throughout the week (Black Friday deals were tooo good for some skin stuff). Also caught up on all the lectures I neglected while studying for midterms LOL

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July 8, 2018 // Sunday 

Guess where I went again today (T to Tea). I’m always so productive there. I came to UCLA at night and ran 2 miles without stopping!! That’s probably the first time I’ve ran more than like ¾ of a mile without walking at all lol and this is my second time at the track in a year…so I’m making progress okAY. Also when I opened the door to my room it felt as if I was walking into a sauna like it was probably 90° in there. It’s 2 am right now and there’s a slight breeze from the window, but I’m still sweating by just sitting in my chair LOL. Clearly my tolerance for temperature change is very low. Anyways today I printed my notes and I’m amazed at technology

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July 5, 2018 // Thursday

Met with my PI on Tuesday, but there are some scheduling problems so I’m not sure when I’ll be starting yet lul. I went home afterwards for July 4th. My family ate at a somewhat new chongqing restaurant aka Sichuan spicy stuff (honestly Sichuan spicy tastes super good for like the first 3 seconds and the aftertaste is so bad lmao like when I drink water afterwards it’s so gross). I rewatched Guardians of the Galaxy 2 with my dad and bro too (tbh I teared up at the same part again sos also baby groot is so cute and entertaining). When I got back to school at night I could see some fireworks at the beach from my room heh the view is so good~

Taking lab in the summer is legit man I have 3 prelabs, 2 postlabs, and a midterm for it next week LOL. Also I realized I always dread going to 3 hr lab in the morning (esp when I’m walking there and it’s hot af), but I end up finding the experiment to be pretty fun

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As an incoming freshman, what materials do you recommend getting/ are you currently using?

hmm if by materials you mean note-taking supplies and the like

Honestly I could just survive with my double ringed, unruled Muji notebooks and a laptop. A lot of the notes you see here are taken on my iPad, and it’s definitely nice and fun to write on, but I could totally just use a normal notebook LOL. So I’d just find a notebook that you really like and get a few of those. I’ve always liked the double ring notebooks that you can fold over (spiral ones work too) but I realized how useful they are in lecture because the desks in lecture halls are TINY. For writing, I use both the 0.5 G2 pens and 0.38 Muji pens (I’ve found that Muji pens run a bit thicker than most) and the Mildliner highlighters 

For the classes I have to take a lot of wordy notes in (like bio or other non-stem classes), I like to use OneNote. The notebook system is too suitable for semester/quarter-long classes. I prefer OneNote (instead of Google Docs/Pages) because it opens up a lot faster and it’s easier to switch between notes because everything’s in once place. If you have a MacBook, it also maximizes nicely in multitasking mode LOL and it’s free!!

Hope this helped:) if this isn’t what you meant by materials just shoot me another ask lmao

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July 1, 2018 // Sunday

It’s July. I’m not sure if I’m ready to face the heat in long pants and close-toed shoes for lab LOL. I ate lunch with my family at Boiling Point and went to T to Tea afterwards for a few hours and got most of the week’s work done! I helped my mom cook a little afterward and packed again to go back to school. I think I’ll be going home a lot this summer (especially since I eat 3 meals a day and I only have 15 meals a week LOL so I really need to go home for food). Also I went to the orthodontist on Friday and was able to have my retainer fixed, so I don’t have to buy a new one whew

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June 9, 2018 // Saturday

My latest work of art l o l jk and one of my fav places to study :D I keep waking up like half an hour before my alarm goes off which is really weird because I’m getting less sleep than I usually do but my body is waking me up earlier. Also I usually don’t mind studying and sometimes I even enjoy it, but the last few days my mind has just gone into treat yourself mode and I want to go home to friends and good food and good boba already. I have read and reread bio and chem ENOUGH literally I have been dreaming about doing chem problems

Also I talked to Jeff about sustainable fish today and I learned caviar comes from sturgeon and I looked it up and one fish can hold SO many eggs and I thought it was super funny idk also I use the word also too much but its just a good connecting word for my stream of consciousness posting sry