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."

FOR YOU THE FLAG IS FLUNG

February 17, 2016 by Adrienne Ou in LIFE AT UCLA

An ode to my teachers. Yes, the title is from Walt Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!" and it is a reference to Dead Poets Society (1989) above all.

WHEN WE WERE YOUNG

April 16, 2015 by Adrienne Ou in FRIENDSHIPS, BEFORE UCLA

Sometimes your past comes back to visit you, and it's surprisingly mundane. When I was in middle school, I was bullied. And then I met one of the people who hurt me in middle school at a university class lecture. Or: Adrienne on childhood pain and the simple trajectory of human growth.