This post is a recount of my backpacking trip to Mt. Marcy in New York 08/07/20-08/09-20. My friends and I planned a trip to summit Mt. Marcy via the Van Hoevenberg trail. The original plan was to arrive on Friday, hike some of the trail, set camp for the night, summit Marcy the following day, …
Well, my fears have been realized. My posts, specifically “Quarter Life Crisis” and “Time,” have caused some readers to become upset and concerned about my mental health. I knew the risks of publishing such content and decided to do it anyway (hint: see the description for this category of blog posts). I am very grateful …
If I asked you what the most important thing in your life is, what would you say? Is it money? Health? Family? Friends? A hobby? Your career? Those are all fair answers to the question, and everyone’s priorities are different, but my answer is none of the above. My answer to the question of what …
I was stumbling around YouTube the other day watching random videos to kill time. I came across a Tedx talk titled “The Mathematics of Weight Loss” by Ruben Meerman. In his talk, Ruben describes how your body metabolizes fat and the (very basic) associated chemistry. Straightforward enough (I only watched the first 5 minutes of …
Date: July 3, 2020. Conditions: Sunny. Temperature: 85 °F. Summer was here, the virtual worst time of year to fish. I figured I could have gotten up at ass o’clock to hit a wild trout stream, but the shortage of rainfall and recent heatwave would have likely made my outing an exercise in catch and …
I recently wrote about my ongoing existential crisis (see post titled “Quarter Life Crisis”). To summarize in as few words as possible, the post outlines how my existential crisis arose, the associated feelings of meaninglessness, why I think those feelings evolved, and a survey/evaluation of possible solutions. As mentioned in my post, one possible solution …
This post is a recount of my backpacking trip to the White Mountains in New Hampshire 06/12/20-06/14/20. My friends and I planned a trip to backpack the White Mountains in New Hampshire. The goal was to cover a 25-mile semi Pemi Loop from Friday through Sunday, then camp near the foot of Mt. Adams Sunday …
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Don’t worry, you don’t always have to wait until midlife to have a crisis. You can have one at 25, or 26 (my current age), or 20, or 30, or at any other time. That’s the great thing about life: crises can happen at any time! The crisis might happen suddenly, like a brusque slap …
I earned by B.S. in chemical engineering from SUNY Buffalo in May 2016. I graduated with a 3.98 GPA, earning straight As, save three A-minuses, one in English (doesn’t count), one in physics lab (hadn’t taken a pre-req course), and one in computer programming (the irony). In my science and engineering courses, I would be …
