Lessons From my Chinese Friend

This is one of the smartest people you can come across, and very humble at the same time. He smiles all the time, no matter what. In his broken English, he can be an extremely erudite speaker. “If I write one line about my life, I say: When you think that your life is going [...]

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Alice and Bob in Wonderland

Child-like questions are both innocent and beautiful. Almost every one of us has asked: why is it dark at night? Well, it is not just because the sun is on the ‘wrong’ side (the universe has billions and billions of stars, as good as the sun when it comes to brightness, so shouldn’t the entire [...]

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Perimeter Scholars International, a Student’s Experience

This post is meant to be a reflection on my 5-month experience in the Perimeter Scholars International program. I hope it is also useful to those who are exploring the possibility of applying to PI. Perimeter Scholars International (PSI for short) is a 10-month, intense Masters program in physics during which you complete almost twice [...]

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Bhangra Magic

Regardless of nationalities, languages, cultures, there is something universal about the energy that Bhangra brings in!

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PSI Asian Lunch

Vihn, Yiming, Lokman and Changhong got together to invite us for a delicious treat of Vietnamese, Chinese, and Hong-Kong food. Never knew that Coca Cola Chicken was a local delicacy in HK. The veggie spring-rolls were awesome.

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The Perimeter of New Things

26 people. 16 countries. maths, computer science, physics, engineering. Makes for an intimidating bunch, and intimidated I am. The 10-month ordeal seems very challenging, but I am beginning to like it already. PI has an aura of freedom and creativity, in a building where black walls merge seamlessly in to blackboards, where people like to [...]

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