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School

  • Top 6 CS & EE Classes At Stanford

    After 7 years, my time as a student at Stanford is coming to a close, and it seemed like a prime occasion to reflect on all the new stuff I’ve learned over the years. I have taken over 30 classes in the CS & EE departments, most of them related to my concentration in Signal Processing, Control, and Optimization.

  • Actually, it is rocket science.

    One of the most signifcant parts of my college experience was being part of the Stanford Student Space Initiative (SSI), a student-run organization that grew to 250+ members over the few short years I was there. I’ve compiled here a growing list of snippets that reflect my perspective on those experiences at different points in time.


Money

  • Moneyview

    One of the things I’m most proud of when it comes to my finances is my sustained charitable giving practice. I made a commitment to myself when I was in college - before I had any real income - that when I did get a job, regardless of how much or how little I started out making, I would commit...

  • Managing Money Madness

    There are some things that I just get way too carried away with. When it comes to money, I’m obsessed about managing money. I was a long-standing Mint user, despite its many flaws in categorizing my transactions, but never loved how much I’m sure they were profiting off of everyone’s financial data and selling it to credit card companies and...


Tech

  • How I solved all my Linux woes - a love letter to WSL

    From the time I was first introduced to Linux in high school, all throughout college, and into my working professional years, whether on work or hobby projects, I maintained dual-booted partitions for Linux and Mac or Windows on almost every computer I laid my hands on. But as the story goes, things are never as they seem. Even with...


Life

  • Everything I know, I learned from ballet

    I’ve thought for a while now that I knew what I wanted to write here about ballet being my greatest teacher. It taught me about passion and determination. Discipline. Resilience in the face of tremendous difficulties. Self-inquiry, self-improvement, and self-expression. Creativity through structure. The power of a good story.