Week1, Post 1: Hello!

    Hello World! My name is Alisha Manandhar and I am currently a fourth year undergraduate bioengineer major at UC Berkeley. I am graduating in May 2013 and am planning on working in the industry. I'm really interested working for biotech company as a an engineer.
    I'm from El Cerrito, California. No, not that random city in SoCal called 'Ceritos' but the city five minutes north of Berkeley with two BART stations (EC Plaza and Del Norte). I've grown up going back and forth in between Berkeley and El Cerrito. So I guess....I've been in Berkeley for a long time.
    In my spare time, I really enjoy baking. I bake a variety of items: from cookies to cakes, breads, and pies galore! Due to my baking extravaganzas, I have another blog dedicated to recipes and other sorts of things that I bake up. I was on Cal's Taekwondo club team (I'm a blue belt with a red stripe) until I got pateller femoral syndrome last January. I basically could not walk on my own without being in excruciating pain after years of extreme stress on my knees from soccer (i used to play varsity in high school and was on a traveling team) and taekwondo. Since then, I've gone through a lot of physical therapy to get both of my knees back in shape ( I use to wear two knee braces for 6 months!!). I finally am able to start running again (literally, I just started again three weeks ago). I soon hope to rejoin the team and continue with Taekwondo after I graduate.
    Since I've been in the area for a long time, I have some favorite spots in Berkeley that I still continue visiting. My favorite past time is to watch the sunset or the fog roll into the bay from the Grotto in the Berkeley hills (just up the hill from Indian Rock, but a LOT less well known. It's never over crowded as Indian Rock gets. I guess being a local has perks like this).