Category Archives: Musings

Future 101

I joke with my friends that even though I’m only taking 3 classes (including thesis) this semester, my 4th class is Future 101, where I’m applying to fellowships, grants, grad school, studying for the GREs, and figuring out what I can/want to do next summer. So far I’ve worked on a Daniels and a Schiff [...]
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Movies

哎呀, so busy recently.  I had a great fall break with Nick, who came to visit me at Wellesley.  We went to the MIT Nightmarket, met like 50 of my friends, and watched some movies:     I would recommend all of them but didn’t quite like Beijing Bicycle because it hit me pretty hard emotionally.  [...]
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Skritter

My good friends Nick, Scott, and George have released beta testing for Skritter, an online web app that helps you learn Chinese characters by prompting you to write the characters and tones and giving you stroke-level feedback. The program spaces out the characters based on whether you get them right or wrong, so you can [...]
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Photos and stuff

My panoramas and new macros have been moved to Flickr for better storage/viewing, but you can see a slideshow on the Photography page. All the panoramas should be there, and macros will be added soon, as long as my monthly upload limit hasn’t been reached… Enjoy!
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Fall Semester updates

Back to school again, this time as a senior!  First few weeks have been busy figuring out schedules and finding a balance between academics and post-college business namely grad school search/applications and GREs.  I can only say that I’m really grateful for my wonderful thesis advisors who keep me sane and for having started my [...]
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