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About Me

Hi, I'm Marianne Clare Reyes. You can call me Marianne or Maan. 

Third-Year Biomedical Engineering Student | The University of Texas at Austin

I'm from Sugar Land. It sounds like a magical candy heaven, but it's actually a huge suburb of Houston, Texas. It's extremely Texan but beautifully diverse at the same time. It's where my accent's from. But my name and face come from somewhere else. ​

​"Wait, but your last name is Reyes." 

My mother and father are from the Philippines. (Still confused about my last name? Do a quick search on Spanish colonization.) I'm proudly Filipino American, and I hope my work leads me to my parents' homeland one day. ​

"Um, the American flag has fifty stars."

Yes, you're correct. The American flag has fifty stars, and the Philippine flag has three stars and a sun; hence "Fifty-Three Stars and a Sun." 

"So...what is this?"

This is a place to document my thoughts on my experience as a Filipino American, an Engineering student, and more. 

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