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Merry Christmas to all

I’m staying up to wrap a few last-minute gifts for my family, send out a few e-cards, and register a domain with Google. That’s right: Google offers domain registration now, so I couldn’t pass up the opportunity when I thought of a cool name: planetsc.com. That’s Planet ‘SC, as in Planet USC, a domain for…Continue Reading…

Software engineers are “sickeningly overprolific”

Sometimes people ask me how I can do so much. I have multiple websites, a full courseload, update my blog almost every day, and sleep 9 hours a night. I’ve built a solar car, interned at JPL, and am active with InterVarsity. And I try to do my best in all of it. How does…Continue Reading…

Developments from World War II

I think I’ve posted on this before, but it’s just so striking. Wikipedia’s article on the Manhattan Project says: Together with the cryptographic efforts centered at Bletchley Park and also at Arlington Hall, the development of radar and computers in the UK and later in the USA, and the jet engine in the UK and…Continue Reading…

MM: Last week of classes

It’s been awhile since I wrote a Midnight Message. I believe my last one was two weeks ago. Quit a few things have happened since then. I’m mostly getting caught up in schoolwork. I’m finding that I really dislike it. Maybe it’s just because I’m tired, but I think I’d learn just as much, if…Continue Reading…

I go insane at night

And forget everything the next morning. No, I’m not partying nor drinking, nor even hanging out with people. I’m looking at my math homework now, which I was struggling to finish last night. Right in the middle of a math problem, here’s what I have written, in pencil and scrawled in strange shapes, as if…Continue Reading…

Humans are emotional creatures

One of the strangest things I’ve ever experienced happened last night. I wrote a paper and had no idea what I wrote. My mind totally blanked. How do I know? Because when I woke up this morning, I read the paper– and was absolutely shocked by what I saw. This was an abstract for Core…Continue Reading…