COSMOS 2019
A Letter from the Editor
Allie Huang (Cluster 9)
The definition of a Macrocosm is a representation of the entirety of the cosmos. Through the establishment of the UCSC COSMOS newsletter, we hope to be able to provide the UCSC COSMOS community with a representation of our complete experience throughout this month.
As the second weekly issue of Macrocosm is published, UCSC COSMOS students have completed week two of their classes; in other words, our time here at COSMOS is halfway to completion, yet there still is so much to learn and so many new people to meet.
This week, clusters delved deeper into their respective focus topics, with many students having already begun their final projects, sacrificing their precious sleep to research new theories and ideas. Despite this, we all still found time to create towering ice cream cones in the cafeteria, brainstorm ever so creative cluster chants, and to joke around with our cluster mates when walking back and forth (and back and forth) from the quad to our classrooms. These are all fragments of the moments that Macrocosm seeks to record, so that even when the memories in our minds become hazy we will always be able to come back to this online newsletter and remember what it was like to be a UCSC COSMOS 2019 student. From articles about weekly discovery lectures to pieces about residential life, encompassing everything from the dilemma of sorting lights and darks and the importance of #noCOSMOScouples, I hope that this newsletter will be able to capture the spirit of this month long experience.
As always, a big thank you to the newsletter team who helped put together this week’s edition of Macrocosm. While COSMOS is a STEM camp, I am so happy to have been able to meet so many of my peers who were willing to lend themselves to journalism in order to document our experience to be remembered in years to come — and hope that they all enjoy being a part of the team as much as I do.
Above all, I hope that the UCSC COSMOS community enjoys the second issue of Macrocosm, and through this online newsletter, are able to gain insight into this week’s events at UCSC COSMOS.
Until next week!
Allie Huang (Cluster 9)
Macrocosm Editor-in-chief
As the second weekly issue of Macrocosm is published, UCSC COSMOS students have completed week two of their classes; in other words, our time here at COSMOS is halfway to completion, yet there still is so much to learn and so many new people to meet.
This week, clusters delved deeper into their respective focus topics, with many students having already begun their final projects, sacrificing their precious sleep to research new theories and ideas. Despite this, we all still found time to create towering ice cream cones in the cafeteria, brainstorm ever so creative cluster chants, and to joke around with our cluster mates when walking back and forth (and back and forth) from the quad to our classrooms. These are all fragments of the moments that Macrocosm seeks to record, so that even when the memories in our minds become hazy we will always be able to come back to this online newsletter and remember what it was like to be a UCSC COSMOS 2019 student. From articles about weekly discovery lectures to pieces about residential life, encompassing everything from the dilemma of sorting lights and darks and the importance of #noCOSMOScouples, I hope that this newsletter will be able to capture the spirit of this month long experience.
As always, a big thank you to the newsletter team who helped put together this week’s edition of Macrocosm. While COSMOS is a STEM camp, I am so happy to have been able to meet so many of my peers who were willing to lend themselves to journalism in order to document our experience to be remembered in years to come — and hope that they all enjoy being a part of the team as much as I do.
Above all, I hope that the UCSC COSMOS community enjoys the second issue of Macrocosm, and through this online newsletter, are able to gain insight into this week’s events at UCSC COSMOS.
Until next week!
Allie Huang (Cluster 9)
Macrocosm Editor-in-chief