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This is my blog. I use it for keeping track of life and sharing on the Internet, because I still hope the Internet can be a neat place for learning and sharing.
My primary hobbies have developed over time and all sort of fit together. They’re most of what I write about on the blog. I’m a fan of:
Whatever I’m doing in the moment changes depending on the semester, because I’m a student, but I’ve been lucky enough to have some neat opportunities:
…In fall 2025 I’m in Taichung City, Taiwan trying to make career connections and doing intern things in a research group. Taichung is truly the world’s greatest underrated and underrepresented city (the bus capital of the world, jazz capital of Asia, and the home of Lu Shiow-yen, 3:15 PM milk tea, and the super fancy Chun Shui Tang restaurant chain that originated boba tea for the world to enjoy). If you’re not in Taichung, you can enjoy the soundtrack to the city, or, at least, its tiny and short but adorable metro system….
…In spring 2026 I’m in Rochester again, taking mostly EE classes for the first time in my undergrad and hoping that it will make me feel more focused. I think, overall, I’ve learned a good bit about myself, how I think, and how I want to live in the past couple of years, so now I’m looking forward to the future just a little bit more. I no longer have a car, which I feel like is ironically going to raise my quality of life a lot (I mean, I like walking. Buses and trains are also great. Again, I got super into urbanism and I have no regrets).
I try my hardest to love the places that I go, and I’ve been successful so far. While I can’t readily travel wherever I want, whenever I want, I do love traveling and especially “being a tourist in my own city”. I walk around, take pictures and then edit them obsessively while stumbling down the sidewalk using my smartphone like a tourist with no shame.
Rochester is a place that is both easy to love and easy to hate (see: optimism and pessimism on rocwiki.org). Considering that it’s where I’m going through my college experience, seeing things, starting to have a life, friends, and things to do, I prefer to stay optimistic. I encourage other people to do the same.
On this blog, I’ll mostly write about the places that I go and the things that I see and do as they relate to my interests (seems like a good general description of any blog, actually). I like keeping the topics focused, but the things that I write about usually just come out of my fingers, through the keyboard and into the screen.
See you around!
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