My New Apartment

Where I live this year!
Green marker is my current apartment, blue marker is my school, and the purple marker is where I work most of the time. I live pretty much right in the middle of the city and next to a big park (it's that green triangle south of my house), which is awesome.

The pink thumb tack is where I lived last year.
The yellow marker is where I have to work sometimes - like all of June.


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Our living room. The one door in the middle leads to my Taiwanese roommate's room. The door on the far right leads out onto our balcony. Wow! A balcony! It's about a foot and a half wide and has our laundry machine and is where we dry our clothes. Not the most exciting place.



My room and Pierre's rooms are in the middle of this picture, to the right of the filing cabinet, which isn't really a filing cabinet, but holds like 25 pairs of our Taiwanese roommate's shoes.


Our bathroom:


Our kitchen:


My room, still complete with decorations and sheets from the French girl that lived here before me. I think everybody would be pleased to know I've since gotten new sheets. It's like 8*7 square feet or so, built in closet.






View outside. We live on a busy street, which is awesome.




Pierre's room was the other option I had when I moved in - it's bigger with a larger closet and had a double bed, but was more expensive. I

College + Graduation

Few pics from senior year and graduation-

Unit Ops Lab: 4 hour lab sessions on applying chemical engineering concepts - I unfortunately seem to have lost the pictures of me mopping the floor. I spilled water more than anybody else in the section. Whoops. Damn well prepared for a janitorial career though.


Unit Ops Presentation: Our poster is awesome. It lost to my roommate's, which was glued together about 5 minutes before it was due.



Lounge - homework for something:


Studying - Reactor Design:　The excitement is thick in the air


Studying - Process Control: Even more exciting


Double Dragon Chinese Food - I ate here at least 3 times a week.


Senior design projects - a semester to prove that you're a real chemical engineer... lots of time on the computer

Computer Lab - Saturday morning


Computer Lab - Tuesday night:


Computer Lab - Sunday morning


Reception for presentations - awesome. probably not worth the work.




Everybody!


Our group with our advisor


Graduation!!



CBE Crew:


The cupcakes weren't really that good, but they WERE free.


This is a friend's brother's picture of a picture of myself (really) and said friend on the screen during the engineering slideshow. Pretty sure that blonde hair is my mom, which means our families were right next to each other for the ceremony. We're also both named Robert.

My Philly Apartment

Entrance to our apartment:


Kitchen:


What I eat:



The homework table - I cleaned it off! It's usually cluttered with like 3 books, multiple pencils, an assortment of packets, various colored scratch paper (yellow is the way to go) , and at least one cup we forgot about:


Bathroom:


Tom's on the left, I'm on the right:


My room:


My desk (also usually covered with papers):


Tom's Room - in his defense, his bed is usually made. Guitar hero 4 is kind of like our seventh class:


Our windows open onto the roof, dental school is across the street (on the left), the three main dorms on campus are the three high rises there. We're literally half a block from the edge of campus:

More food

Drunken chicken: It's cold and basted in some sort of alcohol (hence the name). It's really good.


I don't remember the name of this, but it was a noodle shop that was open at like 3 am only about 3 blocks from my apartment and it was delicious:


Japanese fish:


More shaved ice!


This doesn't have the fruit topping, but rather an assortment of fillings. I forget what I got here exactly, but the purple round things that look like fish eggs were taro, the orange chunks are mango, the black and white things were some sorts of sweet tofu, maybe? Delicious

Danshui

Lover's/Valentine's Bridge:




It apparently doesn't qualify as a night market, but this alley is home to many, many delicious things, most of which come on a stick:



Quail eggs, you get to roll them in hot sauce, some other sauce, and salt(MSG?) to your liking:



Fish balls! Same deal as the quail eggs, though the sauces might be different?

Fried mushrooms:


Green tea ice cream:


This soup and chicken dish is from a restaurant right down the street from Taiwanese pop superstar Jay Chou's former high school, and is supposedly a favorite of his. It was pretty good, though it didn't really offer the Asian pop megastar feeling that it advertised: