Update: 17 minutes before scheduled liftoff on the 27th, the launch was scrubbed due to weather. The next opportunity is on May 30 at 3:22:45 PM, and I’ve updated the timetables below to reflect that. When I was 12 years old, I watched the Space Shuttle Endeavour lift off on mission STS-127. It launched into […]

If you’ve ever been to a Disney theme park, you may have taken a trip on the “Soarin’ Over California” attraction. It’s an immersive, simulated hang gliding flight over the American West Coast. You feel the wind rush by you, your seats tilt and sway in harmony with the screen in front of you, you

On April 29, 2017, I visited the Georgia Institute of Technology for the first time. I had just heard from the school that my application was accepted, meaning I would transfer in the upcoming fall semester. My family and I visited the school with a friend who had graduated a few years prior; he was

I spent a lot of time in 2019 meditating on the resurrection of Jesus. I know of no other word in the English language that singlehandedly contains the story of the gospel – life, death, and life again. I revisit it every so often because confining the memory of Jesus’ resurrection to one Sunday a

Have you ever wondered what would happen if a spacecraft returning to Earth attempted to replace its heat shield with an equally protective layer of cheese? Have you ever pondered how much cheese would even be necessary for such a task, or what cheese would perform the best under these circumstances? Then you’ve come to

A few Sundays ago, I found myself talking to a friend at church who happens to be in seminary. She told me about her current assignment: write a funeral sermon for someone you know. It was an unusual but valuable task. How do you distill what truly mattered about a person’s life into a handful

Cast iron cookware is the greatest cookware on the planet. There, I said it. I received my first cast iron skillet shortly before leaving home for college. I was an ignorant novice and completely failed to properly maintain it. I ended up with a sticky, gunky mess at the bottom of my skillet that left

I’m not one for New Year’s resolutions. The concept is simultaneously noble and flawed, brilliant and defective. As humans, we know we are capable of (and require) constant growth and improvement. We rarely make a conscious effort to change, though. That’s why January 1 is such a tantalizing reset button. This iteration is perhaps even

When I write a personal rendition of My Favorite Things, podcasts will inevitably be on the list. I listen to them while walking to class, cooking, washing dishes, solving Rubik’s cubes…you get the idea. When executed well, they can transport you to a new world, make you think deeply about a novel idea, or even

If you’ve met me, you know I like space. The infinite nature of the universe, our smallness in comparison, the unending possibilities of discovery. You also know I like Rubik’s cubes. On a smaller scale, the cube is equally infinite. There are over 43 quintillion permutations of the 3×3 cube, a set of possible states