2025 Pasadena Coffee Passport: Third Round of Reviews
Time to review three more coffee shops featured in the 2025 Pasadena Coffee Passport! Last issue, I reviewed Mandarin Coffee Stand, the Boy & the Bear, and Lavender & Honey. This time, I have explored another three coffee shops of the fourteen shops in the passport.
A Letter to Future Generations: On the Philosophy of Happiness — Part I: Unhappiness
I know you’re probably sitting in your dorm room right now, stressed about midterms, wondering if you picked the right major, scrolling through Instagram and feeling like everyone else is happy and has their life figured out except you. Spoiler alert: they don’t.
A Pinterhouse Fit for the End of the World
Page Hovse kicked off Interhouse season with a full-throttle throwback to the year 2000—back when the world braced for computer doom and dial-up tones counted as much.
A Talk with Bill Gates: On Innovation, Sacrifice, and What Really Matters
I sat in Beckman Auditorium last night, November 3rd, my iPad open, my pen ready. Around me, students whispered excitedly. Faculty members settled into their seats. The air felt heavy with anticipation—that particular Caltech energy when something important is about to happen.
An Overdue Conversation with Tom Mannion, Caltech’s Cornerstone of Student Life
Tom Mannion (left) and the much-beloved Davey (right).
ASCIT Board of Directors Meeting Minutes: November 16, 2025
November 16th, 2025, 10pm – 11pm, Hameetman Conference Room
Behind Integrated Core, Caltech’s Grand Experiment in First-Year Teaching
On a late September morning, a caravan of first-year students and faculty packed into SUVs and drove about 30 miles down Highway 101, windows down, the smell of salty ocean air rushing through the cars.
Gut Feelings: How Microbes Might Be Shaping the Mind—and More
One afternoon, a father gave his young son an antibiotic for a routine throat infection. Days later, something changed. The child became withdrawn, stopped making eye contact. Within weeks, doctors diagnosed him with autism.
Nostalgia
They call it the American Dream, but no one talks about the weight it places on your shoulders.