Re: Life / on ice cream, immunology, and seeking discomfort
My life condensed into variably interesting posts on the internet
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Welcome to Re: Life! I’m Aaryan.
Till recently, I was a high schooler in the snowy town of Sudbury, Canada. Now, I’m a freshman at Stanford diving headfirst into a realm of biology, hardware, and mild sleep deprivation.
You’ve stumbled on the weird place on the internet where I chronicle my life, thoughts, and the random things I create, from wind turbines to medical devices.
Let’s begin.
What I’ve Been Up To 🛠
// Continuing work at the Bollyky lab! Lately, I’ve been helping edit a paper on multi-phage therapies that we’ll soon be submitting for review.
// Weathered some existentially-concerning calculus midterms, wrote essays on the rhetoric of biosecurity, flipped through the pages of Kuby’s Immunology in Stanford’s aptly-named Bender Room.
// Otherwise trying my best to seize the special moments of college life. Since my last post, I tried my hand at rock climbing, indulged in late-night ice cream in Palo Alto (shoutout to Aspen and Grace for taking me with them!), and demolished the entire Squid Game series with friends.
Thought of the Week 🧐
Entrepreneur Henry Kaiser on the nature of difficulty:
”Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.”
Luck often lurks on the other side of discomfort. Remember that your next chance might be hiding in plain sight.