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Finishing My Third Year and Summer Projects
I’m officially done with my third year of college. Six semesters completed, and only one more to go before I graduate. This year’s definitely been the most interesting, fun, packed, and memorable year of my college experience thus far. Every single year has been a new adventure but this one...
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What I Learned Developing Amelior
The proof-of-concept of Amelior, a health app I’ve been developing for the past semester with a team of colleagues, is complete. This was the first time I’ve touched Android app development in a long time and it’s been quite a journey learning Kotlin. Along the way, I’ve learned a lot...
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Finals Season Stress
Finals season is in full swing currently and it’s been a particularly stressful finals season this semester. This week was my last week of instruction, and next week is full of exams, presentations, projects, and more for my peers and me. I don’t even have that particularly large of a...
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What a Typical Day Looks Like for Me
A typical day for me is hectic and stressful. It’s full of class, 2 jobs, endless meetings, and work, work, work. I wish I had more hours to myself these days, hours to just sit on the grass in the breeze and exist with no expectation of doing anything productive....
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No Post This Week
There will be no post this week, not necessarily because I’ve been going through a mentally rough patch (thankfully), but simply because I’ve been so stressed and swamped lately having to pull in extra hours playing catch-up for Amelior. Best regards.
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How I Hacked a DDR Mat to Fly Drones
This afternoon, I taught what will probably be my last workshop as a student at UC Merced. We were going to be flying drones with Python. ΑΣ had the idea of using her Dance Dance Revolution mat as a controller, so we hacked it to fly drones. Let me explain....
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Where I'm At
I buried my grandmother last Tuesday. Anyone who’s ever had to bury a grandparent probably knows that though the pain of losing them is great, the pain of seeing the grief of your parent, for whom they’ve lost their parent, hits in a different kind of way. Perhaps you come...
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How I Safely Connect to My Desktop From Across the Internet
My everyday ThinkPad X250 laptop is a mobile road warrior, but unfortunately it – as laptops usually do – is not the powerhouse that my desktop at home is. This makes sense; laptops trade power for mobility, and desktops trade mobility for power. However, you can get the best of...