There are a few key problems I face currently. First, validating my idea. This is tricky because of the nature of the software I intend to build–it's not as straightforward as the missing supply for robotics data, nor something for which a simple MVP will suffice. It&
France was very good. I am glad I trusted my intuition. I'd had a keen sense that I should study abroad since December and generally expected the education and cultural immersion to be worthwhile. Academically, I anticipated that things would mellow after a rough start, which was mostly
I didn't anticipate myself partaking just now, although that is a trivial fact. Presently I feel tense because numerous messages I have sent remain unresponded to. These include one to which I expect an eventual reply, one that is slightly odd because the girl was kind to me
Probabilistically, it feels ("probabilistically" and "it feels" successively..)* implausible that an individual can be wrong about most things they reason about back and forth. This makes me think that we must be correct about basic, big, reasoned-out ideas concerning ourselves more often than we are
My friend LLS says stress helps her work. I disagree that this is true in general. A large part of my big problems over the past two years were a result of undue/self-imposed stress. It just isn't an ideal state of mind. I'm realising
At first, I despised the primeval nature of this college. Our dormitories were old, unmodernised. The websites for academic majors looked the same as they had 10 years ago. I looked to Harvard and Princeton for comparison; their effortless animations and elegant font made Yale seem tame. In some sense
A long stream of revelations/realisations/just reflection. I'm feeling fairly melancholic. I've been distanced from civilisation, out of routine, did something new that makes me feel really weird emotionally and miss Olivia and how close we were. I also feel a bit wasted and unhappy
Note: These are live notes from a conversation at Jackson that I partly attended. Duque: We prioritised policy over politics. Made sure people could see the data. Mahuad: Politics is way to decide who gets what and who pays what price for it. Gettysburg Address, despite being <300 words,
Feeling so sad right now. Had E-board elections and senior speeches. I'm gonna miss all these guys so much. Seeing them around, looking upto them in many ways, just having them be here; I can't imagine that changing and not being the case next year.
This is not the first time this has happened. I hate this feeling so excruciatingly that not releasing a barrage of expletives onto my screen feels like exceptional self-control. Math AAHL 2024, somewhat same thing. Froze. Linear Algebra, froze. Now today, easiest fucking midterm of my life, chance to
I tweak in my head too much and it affects how calm I am, how much I can focus, what habits I revert to and the new things I do. I ought to relax. I'm "going hard" on the wrong things. Being tunnel visioned about this
I feel daunted at the thought of living by myself, if I'm being honest. It's not as much a factor of being alone as I think it is of the opportunity cost of living alone. It obviously sucks to not have a living situation of choice
Incredible team; one of the best I've been a part of. Edit: post writing this, maybe this is a bit glazey and not completely true. However, fantastic trip and experience regardless. I'll begin with the short criticism I have: Nick gets upset over seemingly unimportant things
Let me begin my saying that I don't quite like how I write at the moment. I feel the need to take a class on it, read shorter books and generally just improve a lot. Summer is a tense topic. On the one hand, I feel calm when
Right now–ideal summer would be spending six weeks learning French in Paris, one month in San Francisco figuring my shit out & meeting people and then one month in India doing my research. I think this would be quite awesome because I'm genuinely hoping to be able
I love this class in case I haven't already said so. I am learning a lot. -The 'creative process' isn't coming up with genius idea after genius idea; it is being able to generate 100s of ideas. Hopefully, you and your team can determine
I listened to Tom Nides recently. Very humorous guy. I don't think it's common to get really smart intense students to lighten up so easily, especially being in his shoes. I wonder to what extent his personality has helped him achieve what he has. However, I
Past couple days I just haven't been feeling like studying to be honest. I haven't been able to go through notes and feel the joy of knowledge absorbing into my brain the way I previously did. There are also tons of other things on my mind,
I feel spent asf. Body is still sore from the last 2 workouts. Dandruff is still a massive fucking problem. I'm behind in both important classes and got an unbelievably horrible grade for one of them (haven't yet received the other). Haven't started building
Holy shit I love this class. The last two sessions have been incredibly captivating. I can say that I've learnt a lot. I mean, despite being on basically no sleep I got through the class enjoyably. Makes me wonder to what extent our body's reactions are
Written in context of just studying for the past couple days. The amount of focus that having a singular objective brings is honestly kind of awesome. I mean, if I channel this sort of one-dimensionality into other things then I think I'll just be quite at peace.
From now, for this semester, I shall only give time to things that serve me. Strength, knowledge, practice of my craft and creating something of my own. Nothing else matters as much. I have slivers of doubt thinking about how I might regret my lack of "campus involvement."
Do I build for India or do I try to build India? Are those questions the same? Are those even the right questions? I want to build a company but I also want to be in politics. I love debating and I want to keep doing it for the rest
I come home excited; looking forward to meet everyone, yet each of the past 3 times I've been greeted with bitter disappointment. These people are the same as they were, except it is worse because our circumstances are not the same and therefore I don't think