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Getting into reading
As someone who is studying in one of the top academic institutions of the world, I am not particularly fond of reading. I guess I’m one of those students this famous article from The Atlantic is talking about. 1
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The Atlantic article: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/the-elite-college-students-who-cant-read-books/679945/ ↩
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The life and pursuit of research
This summer, my main goal was really to attain a balance between work and life. As I tried to experience a preview of what graduate school might look like, I experimented with setting boundaries between the two, making sure that I got the best of both worlds.
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Paying it forward...
In this blog, I am going to change it up a bit. I want to share my experience as a facilitator of our outreach program with middle school students in one of my lab’s projects. With no expectations in mind, I joined the program, only to come out of it with my goal of championing quality education and mentorship being reinforced.
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Multidimensional problems require multidisciplinary approaches
Unfortunately, climate change, a global phenomenon disrupting the lives of many species, is difficult to tackle when we are not aware of its complexity and not equipped with the necessary knowledge. Having physical and meteorological data is not enough. The people affected and the established support systems are often overlooked which vastly differs from country to country—developed to developing.
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Saving Earth with Space Tech
When we hear the words “Space Tech”, we often think of rockets, astronauts, Mars Exploration Rovers, NASA, etc., but this is only one side of the coin. The other side involves using space technology to improve (or shall I say, save) life on Earth—which is the focus of the lab that I’ll be working in this summer.
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Spending winter break alone (not lonely)
The understated struggles of international students
Last August 2023, I started applying for software engineering internships around the US—apparently, I was already late to the “game”. My peers have already been applying since the start of the summer. I got demoralized—it was not the best news to receive. But I continued since I’ve already set my mind. They said it was normal to apply to more than 50 companies—so I did. However, chances were so slim, rejections piled up, as expected. What was unusual was that my rejection email was sent 5 minutes after I submitted my application. It turns out that the company was unable to sponsor me a working visa.
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Silence is consent.
Yesterday, I met one of my heroes: Maria Ressa. Before then, I failed to mentally and emotionally prepare myself for such a moment. She entered the room where we were about to have a discussion group and the way she smiled at me when she was approaching her seat was nerve-racking. When she started to talk, all her lectures and symposiums I had watched on YouTube suddenly came to life, appeared two (physical) meters from me. 1
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I recommend watching her Nobel lecture ↩
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