What to do in Austin, Texas?

I love going back home to Austin. It’s a fantastic city with many things to do. Although I spend most of my time with family, I occasionally have the opportunity to go to my favorite nostalgic places. If you told me you were visiting Austin right now, here are my

From photos to video diaries: how I remember the past

One challenging question I’ve always had was how to remember the past. I know that my memory isn’t the best, and when my friends and I reminisce about the good ol’ days, our accounts begin to differ. Who knows what another few years will make of our memories? We include

Thoughts after moving to New York

As I’ve finally settled into New York, I wanted to talk about the good and the bad of moving to New York. A half of a year has gone by in a blink of an eye. It was only a year ago that I thought summer internships were short… Full-time

Writing

Metafiction in The Things They Carried

Here’s my take on Tim O’Brien’s book The Things They Carried:   When we look at Tim O’Brien’s book The Things They Carried, we delve into a very deeply thoughtful book about metafiction. However sometimes we need to take a step back from analysis and think as if we were

Rants, Thoughts

Monopoly — The Board Game

I remembered a while back I came across Monopoly: Ultimate Banking edition. This was Hasbro’s latest (failed) attempt to digitalize the board game yet still keeping the board. , where property cards and cash are all stored within the electronic device.   I don’t think this should be the way

Thoughts

Not Recognized

So last week, I participated in UIL State for swimming (which was really fun!). It was a two day event, lasting 7 hours each day; I walked into the swimming center with the hot sun on my back, yet I walked out to meet a dark landscape, with only a

Thoughts, Writing

Rewind

They follow us around. Sometimes haunting, other times it stresses. More join everyday, as we plod on through our life, accumulating. Those, the regrets, the burdens of which we created. If not careful, they could consume the entire conscious, destroying the perception of reality. But in most people, it isn’t

Thoughts

Movie Theater Life Hack

Everyone holds their pee until the movie is over. If you don’t, well you just missed 4 minutes of crucial plot development or missed an epic battle scene. So when the movie ends, there is a mad frenzy to the bathrooms. So the thing I noticed is that instead of

Thoughts

Things I will never do

We all have interesting lives. We grow up in such disparate environments, which molds our lives in more ways than we will comfortably admit. I hear all around me ‘crazy’ stories about things this person did, that person got, those people had. In most cases, they are ‘crazy’ because I

Thoughts

Multipliers are actually Exponential

GPA modifiers disproportionately affect low-achieving students Everyday millions of students walk with backpacks strung behind their backs to school. Although school is meant to be a competitive learning environment, meant to foster the inquisitive nature in all of them, it isn’t always the case. Every day is a fight to

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