Re: Life (Aug 15) / Gaining EXP
My life condensed into variably interesting posts on the internet
Welcome to Re: Life, where I chronicle my life, thoughts, and work in biotechnology on the internet.
Why a newsletter? So that one day, a long, long time from now, aliens might find these little time capsules and put them in a museum. Now that you know my motivations are pure, let’s get started.
What I’ve been up to
:// Now that I’m back from California, I’ve been preparing for Cambridge’s ENGAA entrance exam. (Most of it is just a throwback to high-school physics, but boy, can that get tedious sometimes). This week, I’ve been reviewing mechanical deformation and electromagnetism.
:// For the fun of it, I wanted to see if I could make a janky reflectance spectrometer with four coloured LEDs and a photo-resistor. Turns out it worked - although it still can’t tell the difference between my finger and empty space - but I love it to death.
:// I was also chugging along with my university application essays. If you plotted my writing performance over the past week, you’d see that my productivity increased exponentially (I actually felt like George Eliot for a bit) and then everything crashed.
Since last Thursday, I’ve been suffering from some gnarly writer’s block, so I might get hold off on anything literary for a bit.
p.s. Just got my G1 driver’s license. Now that I can finally start using cars, you should probably reconsider the idea of walking on any sidewalk ever again :)
Thought of the Week
Russian author Leo Tolstoy’s thoughts on becoming more antifragile:
Strong people are always simple.
Any engineer will tell you this; the price of adding more parts to a system is the increased risk that any of those parts will break. The more pieces you need in place to achieve anything, the less reliably you’ll achieve it.
Becoming a better person, then, is like sculpting. It means chiseling away every distraction, every sliver of unwanted stone until every atom of what’s left behind is necessary.
Ask yourself: What’s one thing I can chisel out of my life that would leave more room for what matters?
//: Thanks for reading! I’m Aaryan - I’m a high-schooler from Sudbury, Canada. My main work lies at the intersection between hardware and medicine, trying to build better diagnostics / imaging systems to help us treat cancer. When I’ve had enough of that, I watch the occasional episode of Silicon Valley and listen to lo-fi music. Frankly, I have no idea what I’m doing here, but that’s fine, since no one else really does anyway ;)