I am constantly curious about the world. That curiosity has immersed me in art, literature, social sciences, and mathematics. It has led me to travel. I have ziplined through the ruins of Angkor Wat, parasailed in Thailand, dipped in an onsen in Japan, and traversed across Europe while studying abroad at the University of Cambridge. As Voltaire once wrote, "We must cultivate our garden."

HER LAST BOW

April 19, 2016 by Adrienne Ou in LIFE AT UCLA, AFTER UCLA

On the many, many things that have happened in my life since I wrote "Encomium." Number one on that list? I got a job.

IN RE MOTIVATION

January 17, 2016 by Adrienne Ou in LIFE AT UCLA, BEFORE UCLA

How I've grown in four years, and how I haven't changed at all. The more we stay the same, the more we change. But I always like to think like I'm on Dagobah: luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

CONSTANTLY RUNNING

February 13, 2015 by Adrienne Ou in LIFE AT UCLA

This isn't a post about exercise in the traditional sense. But if you believe that thinking powerful thoughts is exercise, then I suppose that this is an exercise in how I live at UCLA. Or: Adrienne gets advice and doesn't know what to do with it.