reflections
the translation of feelings and experiences into verbiage is a lossy process
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Confession Letter
From the first time I met you, I didn't know what to expect of you. And the more time I spend with you, the more you surprise me. What do you call that force which brings people together? I've heard of…
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Life Alone
I often wonder about being other people, how life feels taking the decisions I would never take. It's probably why I like reading biographies and listening to people monologue about themselves, because I can…
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The Wonderful World of Physics Simulators and How to Choose One
There's a lot of simulators out there, and with each simulator trying to sell itself for being the best of its kind, deciding which simulator to use is a whole task of its own. The target audience for this post…
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Graduate Fellowship Guide: Research-based Master's
A master's at a private school is really expensive. I was going to be extremely broke but now I'm only going to be kind of broke when I graduate thanks to NSF GRFP! Fellowships I Applied To - Hertz Fellowship…
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New American
I originally wrote this for my Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship application. I didn't get it, but I still like what I wrote. ~ 🌷 ~ My early memories are marked by frequent drives into the jam-packed streets of…
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Equity Practices
In the early 1900s, if you were a woman who wanted to work, people would laugh and tell you to stay at home. In the 2000s, working is a normal expectation to have of all young people. However, the statistics…
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Our Place in Time
It feels like we're at that point in the human history curve where things are starting to get crazy really quickly. The rate at which history is being made has accelerated so much that it seems every year hits a…
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You Are Important
Millions of students are being misled to believe that they have to be passionate about something. I certainly was, starting with college application essays. When I first tried to answer the question of what I…
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What Value Is
What do you believe is intrinsically valuable? Life? Love? Truth? God? Does something that has intrinsic value require a human to point out its worth? Why do we still put these words on a pedastool when the…
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Thoughts on Society
A certain someone made me read Industrial Society and Its Future[^1] and it took a while for me to sort out my thoughts regarding it. Here is the result. Industrial Society presents modern societal structure as…
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Transfer guide: California Community College to UC
All the adventure stories I loved growing up featured little kids taking their destiny into their own hands. Yet when it became time to navigate college on my own, I thought it was unfair to think that I was…