internship recap
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this summer was okay, some things great and other things poor, and other things just mid, but that’s just how it goes.
Blog posts
2026
Reflecting on Spring 2026
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Overall, I think this semester was great, built projects, learned a lot, and got all A’s for once. Although the outcome was really well this semester, the journey was more intentional than other semesters, due to the fact that I was consistently reflecting on everything that I did. I also did took on a lot more leadership roles whenever available, whether that’s being the team lead for undergraduate research, to inquiring to becoming a director of a school organization, to becoming a vice president of the church fellowship that I go to on campus.
website thoughts
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i honestly don’t really like the way the website that i have looks, it seems standard and doesn’t have any personality. its basically like a copy pasta of what someone who’s a full time researcher or in academia has, only with different links for social medias, publications, and resumes.
i forgot march
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uh, i made a goal to write up at least a blog every month, and i lowk failed. but forget all my failures here’s all the good things that i remember tht happened in march:
so i tried sushi
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on sunday, i tried sushi for the first time, i went to sushi sack with my roomates to the spot, because one of my roomates brother was in town, and it was valentines day. i think we stayed there like 4 hours. there was like an houor and 30 minutes cooldown in between each round of sushi rolls. Oh also, I forgot to mention that it was a all you can eat sushi, so we paid $125 for 5 people and we eat like 17 rolls of sushi. i think that each roll of sushi has 10 thinly sliced pieces.
reasons to study cs
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- CS majors adapt across industries
- quant finance / trader / dev
- swe / ai / ml / cloud / cybersecurity / devops
- embedded systems / robotics / systems analyst
- data science / analyst / block chain / IT
- bioinformatics / research scientist
- Combines multiple academic fields
- cs + x major = higher impact
- cs + math = computational theory, ai/ml, optimization
- cs + physics = simulations, modeling, quantum computing
- cs + bio = bioinformatics
- cs + poli sci = ai policy / regulation, ai ethics
- cs + psych = hci, ui/ux
- cs + x major = higher impact
- AI has expanded cs value; not diminish it
- programming -> systems
- for SWE, just a shift from programming systems to understanding systems and showing the AI model how to create code that aligns with the system that you have in mind
- Fundamental building block for the future
- frameworks, programming languages will change, but logic and reasoning won’t
- it is essential to pick up this line of reasoning as it will help you solve so many problems
- similar to learning how to solve proofs in mathematics
- CS trains your creative thinking
- algorithm: tradeoffs between memory and time complexity
- systems: designing tools/programs that scale and don’t break
- debugging: finding uncertain creative solutions to unintended errors
- abstraction: creating structured logic that serves a pursue (library, data structure)
- Prepares you for life-long learning
- the nature of the field requires you to learn, if you don’t you will drown & lose your spot
- innovation is just tuesday
- reflection is friday
- mastery never ends, and there’s always something new to learn everyday
- CS is a very inclusive field
- Getting to a point that it’s similar to math and literature, where a huge chunk of fields benefit with advancements made in CS
- most inclusive: math & literature
- most grad programs will require you to utilize some sort of programming language or tool to model your findings
2025
Goals for 2026
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Although I took the starting steps from SWE to Scientist in 2025. I think what I do in 2026 should probably ease the transition.
Reflecting on the fall 2025 semester
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This semester felt like the first time everything started to click for me academically and personally, and that matters more than having a perfectly clean transcript. I made the decision to aim for graduate school—leaning toward Ph.D. and post‑bacc programs instead of a traditional master’s because the funded, research‑heavy route makes more sense for the kind of long‑term ROI and impact I want. Even though I barely missed my “all A’s” goal by a few points in two classes, this was the first time I actually cared about my grades from day one, and the outcome reflects that shift in mindset far more than any single letter on a report ever could.