PhD Year 3 In Review
My 3rd year flew by. I still don’t believe it is already over and I feel like I still have not done much research. Things I accomplished: Got engaged! ...
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2021
PhD Year 2 In Review
The second year of this PhD was strange. I don’t feel like I was particularly productive and I’m not sure if I can disentangle how much was pandemic and how ...
2020
Learning to Type Again — Split Keyboards
In August of 2020, I spent a night indoors — like every night this year — and while failing to be present in the moment I got sucked into the dark space that...
What happened to my startups?
“Is this a real startup?”, I’d often ask myself in the time between working on projects. One of the characteristics of labeling a project as a startup is you...
Why Do You Want to Start a Company?
The purpose of this post is to force myself to reflect on my life decisions, have a record of my decision process as a young adult on the internet forever, a...
2019
Initial View of the LA Biology Startup Scene
I’ve been telling people my goal is to start a company at some point during my Ph. D, and since I’m going to be in LA for the foreseeable future, I did some ...
The Different Fields in Computational Biomedical Science: A Confused Students Perspective.
For people generally interested in biology, computers, medicine, and engineering there are too many fields for what feels like the same thing. While attempti...
Why I Have A Blog
I am now a terrible writer. I intentionally misspell words, use the wrong form of there/their/they’re, and have proved that my high AP English test score mea...
2017
So I Impulse Bought a 3D Printer…
About a week ago I was feeling overwhelmed by my minimum wage paycheck and impulse bought a 3D printer. Specifically this one, the Monoprice Select Mini fo...
Project: Genome Circuit Figure Creator
Over the last week or two I have been building a small web app to help create genome figures for use in scientific papers. All it really does is draw arrows ...
How to set up the Intel Joule on a Mac
I spent a stupidly long time trying to get my Joule set up for the first time using primarily Intel’s documentation, so I’ve decided to write a post detailin...