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It was my first time traveling to Bali, and it was eye-opening to me as someone who mostly travels to first-world countries and never explored Southeast Asia outside Singapore. These are the small pieces of culture shock that I experienced.
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I am hoping to get back to posting quarter blogs. This one was written retrospectively, but for the next one I will do my best to write it during the quarter.
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This blog post is disappointing because I didn’t write a single world of it in 2024. But anyways, I’ll try my best to keep the trend going and be better organized in Q1 of 2025.
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Somehow I didn’t get to writing up a blog post for the past three quarters, so this blog post will be about the whole year.
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I’m a bit late to write this point, but I’ll still try to recount my experience from July to September.
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I learned a new Chinese slang phrase recently called 摸鱼, which means “slacking on the job”. It captures how I feel these months pretty well. The fact that I’m writing this post after the entire quarter further underscores the unstructured feelings and lack of intentionality these days.
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This quarter was filled with travels and family time.
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This quarter was pretty eventful with my move to mountain view, a bit of traveling for EMNLP, and transitioning to a permanent role at Google.
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I won’t discuss research in detail here, but I did spend a good amount of heads-down time at my computer. The FLAN project has been the biggest work I’ve been a part of.
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This quarter was tough in terms of work but I had to do it. Starting May 2, for five weeks I spent as much time as I could working, only playing tennis three times. One week, I spent 47 hours on coding/experiments (this is a lot of time for me).
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This past term at home passed by fast. I worked, but it feels like I didn’t make too much progress.
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This quarter, I started my AI residency at Google. In other words, it’s grind time, and I need to get my life together.
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This summer, I worked on a couple of projects and played a bit of tennis.
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For my senior spring, I lived at home, got in a daily routine, and spent a lot of time on research.
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For my first term in the new decade, I started a senior thesis, got accepted to grad school, and lived in my fraternity house.
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I interned at DoorDash in San Francisco this fall and also did a bit of traveling.
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I spent the summer in San Francisco working as a software engineering intern at Blend. Like some other terms, I grew tremendously, both personally and professionally.
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I had a good time this spring, although I didn’t achieve many of the goals that I had set for myself.
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This winter, I split my time between Hassanpour Lab and AI research at Protago Labs. Living at home and being with family was a big source of joy.
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This fall, I did an exchange term at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in Lyngby, Denmark, just outside of Copenhagen. I lived outside the US for the first time in my life and visited cities in Europe that I had before only dreamed of seeing. It was the most incredible term I’ve had in college so far.
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According to legend, the Sophomore Summer at Dartmouth is a glorious term of warm weather, class bonding, and free time.
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For the spring-summer interim break, my friend June and I went on vacation in Australia and New Zealand. It was the first time I had planned a trip on my own, and it was a great experience.
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This spring quarter, I interned at Oracle (previously Dyn) in Hanover. I had ample time to work on machine learning projects both at Oracle and for my research since I was not enrolled in classes, and I’m grateful to have been close enough to campus that I could spend time with friends and work as a teaching assistant for a machine learning class.
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A lot of students find winter term challenging because of the cold weather. At times, I definitely felt like ignoring all my work and just watching youtube videos in bed. But overall, it was a good term filled with personal and intellectual growth.
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This post will be the first of a series of blog posts documenting my time in college by term, starting from sophomore fall. It’s basically a compilation of my experiences, observations, and random thoughts.
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I went to Iceland with some Dartmouth friends from December 1 - December 9, 2017. We started at Reykjavik, drove down through the South to Vik then East to Hofn, and back to Reykjavik.
