Without much necessary explanation, this year has been pretty terrible, for the world globally, but also for a lot of people personally. I too experienced some lows with the many things that I had dreamed, envisioned, and planned on accomplishing that just never came to fruition or simply got canceled. However, I readily acknowledge this…
Category: School
Leaving CMU… Life Updates + Gap Semester Plans
Long time no talk. I’m still here. Quite literally. I’ve not left my house since my last blog post four months ago except maybe for a handful of trips to the grocery store and socially distanced walks around my neighborhood as I’ve been trying to do my due diligence to stay quarantined. If you weren’t…
Sophomore Spring Semester Classes at Carnegie Mellon
It’s here. Finally. My biannual blog post about my college classes. Why am I posting this in August nearly 3 months after the end of the spring semester you might ask? Well, I started trying to write this blog post back in late May, but I only made it through half-way before hitting a writer’s…
Qualities of a Good Teaching Assistant
When describing the culture of CMU SCS, I think its undeniable to in part cite our TA culture and the uniquely commonplace experience for undergraduates in SCS to simultaneously maintain the dual roles of being a Teaching Assistant in one class while being a student in other classes. For me personally, becoming a TA has…
Why Can’t We Be Friends
Reflections on friendships written by two online friends for my senior year Advanced Philosophy of Friendships class. **In the new age of normalized online communication and online only interactions during quarantine, I thought it finally fitting to share arguably my proudest piece of writing in collaboration with my fellow classmate. ***If you’re not feeling up…
Carnegie Mellon SCS Admitted and Prospective Student FAQs
Hi everyone! It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but I figured since COVID-19 is preventing a lot of high school students, especially newly admitted ones, from visiting campus and attending a lot of the admitted student events at Carnegie Mellon that I would make this video to answer some of the frequently asked questions…
Learning From Freshman Mistakes and a Newfound Focus: Sophomore Fall Reflections
As you can probably tell, school and stress robbed me of my time and creativity for yet another semester as shown by the drought of posts on this blog but I’m finally back to catch you up on all the half-baked and half-formed thoughts and revelations I had this past semester but had to keep…
Sophomore Fall Semester Classes at Carnegie Mellon
Hellloo and happy holidays! I’m finally back and on winter break and doing better than ever! Academically, this semester has been my best semester so far so I’ll give you a run down of the classes I took and my thoughts on each of them. Just a quick reminder if you’re new here, I’m a…
Sophomore Year Move In + Room Tour
I’m back! Just finished editing a long overdue video for the Youtube channel with video clips I took back in earlier September. 😅 I filmed this not to be particularly cliche, but because there was a real lack of CMU dorm room videos 2 years ago when I was an anxious pre frosh trying to…
10 Places to Visit While at Carnegie Mellon (or in Pittsburgh)
Disclaimer: I don’t leave campus much. Because CS consume my life. I also don’t do sporty adventure things. Nor am I really a foodie to the great disappointment of my friends. So this is probably a super basic take on aesthetic photo places nearby Carnegie Mellon, but I’m also using this post as an excuse…
