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Fall quarter has concluded. Winter is coming. Highlights NSO: New Student Orientation has a hectic amount of events to attend. If I am being honest, it was totally not necessary. New students also got frequently lost, so the orientation part was ironic. The highlight of that event was seeing Daddy Marc Tessier-Lavigne give a speech to our class. Band Run: On the last night of … Continue reading Stanford Freshman Fall Quarter
Happy Valentines Day dear reader, Just as in the previous quarter, sh*t hit the fan this week. Week six: brutal. While this week proved itself to be really overwhelming the first couple of days, I’m still standing and that’s what counts. This month is not only the month of love, but it’s PHE-bruary. A play on the acronym PHE (peer health educators) PHE-bruary is meant to … Continue reading A Love Letter to my Mental Health: PHE-bruary and Duck Syndrome
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“rosy glasses, crimson pills” by psyberartist is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Some of the most closely guarded secrets in the world are also some of the most important. The formulas and synthesis methods for a variety of crucial medications are patented due to the billions of dollars companies make off of them. As prices of prescription medications skyrocket, stories abound of pill-cutting… Continue reading How to Make Drugs – Without Patents Getting in Your Way
Adapted from the Stanford Daily Many of us have been there. We just finished a midterm exam or a big presentation, and the night is calling. To party or not to party becomes the question of preference, despite a p-set full of unanswered questions on partial derivatives. Too often, however, social life – and, in particular, party life – is dismissed as a luxury. With … Continue reading Party pack: Things I’ve Learned While Partying
Dear reader, It’s already week 5 of winter quarter. “Oh my!” I know. This is the 15th academic week that I’ve been here. We’re here for 30 weeks so I’m technically halfway done with my freshman year. It’s crazy! I know. While January took forever to go through, it feels like February has just flown by. Before this quarter picks up an even greater pace, … Continue reading Winter Quarter Week 5
Adapted from The Stanford Daily; my first article on the Grind section If you’re like any other millennial sharing a single Netflix account with all your friends and family, then you’ve probably seen “Black Mirror”’s new interactive movie, “Bandersnatch.” If you haven’t, just know that it involves you, the user, making “life-changing” decisions for Stefan, the protagonist of the film. In light of this self-proclaimed … Continue reading Bandersnatching my day
Buenas tardes reader, Long time, no blog post. Since last I spoke with you, I’ve become a lot more active on campus. For one, my leadership positions have risen in some of the organizations I am a part of. For two, I have also been busy grinding on Math 51. However, given the amazing weekend I just had, I knew I had to come back … Continue reading Stanford FLI Conference
Help me raise money for Lucile Packards Children Hospital https://my.supportlpch.org/fundraiser/1765493 Continue reading SUDM 10K IN 1 DAY
How are you doing dear reader?!! I hope great! Truth is, this week has been a bunch of ups and downs, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything. With the start of this week came the return of the sun and dopamine. I went to the Stanford Dish trail twice this week and was also able to recover from last week’s bombarding of problems. With … Continue reading Winter Quarter Week 3: The Return of the Sun
Adapted from The Stanford Daily On Wednesday evening, members of the Kofi Annan Commission on Elections and Democracy in the Digital Age gave a panel discussion on the opportunities and challenges technological innovations create for electoral integrity. The panelists cited examples of political candidates leveraging social media to ascend polls and authoritarian leaders shutting down the Internet to squash nonconforming political views. Hosted at the Gunn-Stanford Institute for … Continue reading ‘They muzzle technology’: panelists discuss technology’s role in elections
Hi dear reader, Long time no see. That’s because last week was rough. It was rough, rough. Not only was it raining and pouring and not only was I wet, drenched, and sad pretty much all of last week, but horrible luck just kept coming my way. My laptop charger broke (turned out, my laptop did too) and I lost the key to my PO … Continue reading Week 2 Blues: Rainy Days
