It's been a while. This isn't actually a real post, but I ever do get around to writing a real post, this is what I'll talk about:

• China (briefly, since I kept a Blogger in China)


• Korea (also briefly, for the analogous reason)


• How much I have come to dislike flying


• Moving into Yale


• ST job training (perks and downsides)

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I've made this resolution to myself at least twice in the past already, but this summer I really will learn the Fridrich Method for solving the Rubik's Cube by heart. (Third time's a charm?) It's been nearly four years since I learned Leyan's layer-by-layer method, and at one point I was able to solve the cube with an average time of about a minute ( Read more... )

Weather forecast for Santa Clarita, CA (from AccuWeather.com):


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CASPY (Chinese Adopted Siblings Program for Youth) was a lot of fun. I wasn't actually a big sib, because (1) I'm not Chinese and (2) I had to do photography for the event. But I still got to play with some of the kids, especially the ones who thought (or seemed to think) that my camera was some sort of evil machine with which I was stealing their ( Read more... )

I took a two hour long nap on Cross Campus today. The sun was shining, a breeze was blowing, and the temperature was in the seventies.

It was glorious.

There is not a moment when I'm on my laptop that Tim Be Told is not playing on iTunes. One of my favorite songs, "Dirty Shoes," is already third on my all-time most played list, behind "Open Skies" by David Crowder Band and "How Can I Keep From Singing" by Chris Tomlin. I learned the lyrics of "O What Mercy" by ear in a matter of hours. There's ( Read more... )

I need to buy my plane ticket to China before prices get out of hand. I also need to tell my teachers that I'll be in San Antonio for Nationals from April 10 to April 14. It appears as though my propensity to procrastinate has returned with full force. This does not bode well for the last four weeks of the semester ( Read more... )

Some people go into science because it comes easiest to them. Other people go into science simply because they love science. As surprising as this may sound to people who know me well, for most of my life I've been part of the former category. I'm not tooting my own horn; I now simply accept it as a fact that I'm far better with math and science ( Read more... )