I visited a playground on October 22nd. I had offered to purchase my friends’ some tickets for a Halloween soiree since I had some free time. I had some time to kill before stopping by the booth, so I walked around mindlessly and came across a park with a playground. It was late morning on […]

This semester, the undergraduate program at the Graduate Institute consists of only three students: me and two guys, one from Canada and the other from China. It was a laughable at first, but the small size has become convenient for excursions. We visited Montreux yesterday as our social outing, where we saw Château de Chillon. […]

During my last summer internship, I did a site visit to Massachusetts’ first networked geothermal project in Framingham. By tapping into the earth’s natural heat, geothermal heat pumps provide clean and affordable cooling/heating to those in the geothermal network. I’m staying at the Grand Morillon Residence this semester, and according to the institute’s website, the […]

The sky has been melancholy, and the air has been feeling cooler lately. Despite the unyielding wind and dropping temperatures, I can feel the warmth of tradition as the season beckons cultural events, like désalpe. It’s been raining often here in Geneva, but I think it rains much less heavily here compared to Massachusetts. I […]

I arrived in Geneva, Switzerland exactly three weeks ago. Whenever I go through the motions of change and inevitably face uncertainty, I never seem to get used to it or have the ability to stay level-headed by referencing how I tackled difficulty in the past. Sometimes this anxiety I feel turns into a source of […]