I recently graduated from UC Berkeley with a double major in Chemical Engineering (ChemE) & Computer Science (CS). Over my 4 years as an undergraduate I gave and received a decent amount of advice to and from a decent number of people on whether or not to stay as a…

“How do I know if this path is the right one for me? What if I should have gone down a different path instead?”: My thoughts on decision making. — Decisions come in a wide range of shapes and sizes. Apparently we make on average 35,000 conscious ones each day (Sahakian & Labuzetta, 2013). That’s around 1 decision per 2.5 seconds. Let’s agree that this number is absurd and probably includes things like “I’m going to pick up this fork…

“What do you do for fun?” — I guess I enjoy creating cool stuff, and art is pretty cool. What constitutes “art” is super broad. As a computer graphics nerd, my interests are in creating computational and generative art. As an artist my tastes lean towards the abstract. This article aims to highlight a recent project, done…

This is the second half of a two-part article titled “If you don’t create content, you don’t exist” that is primarily focused on the topic of “content creation”. It can be read as a stand-alone article, but naturally works far better in tandem with its first half. If you have…

“So what made you want to go to grad school?” Since making the decision to start a PhD program at UC Berkeley earlier this year (2019), I’ve been asked this question a lot from friends, family, and even strangers. As a result I’ve had many opportunities to refine my stock…

I recently had the pleasure of being a guest on episode 32 of “Decode your 20s”, a weekly, video-documentary series produced by my friend Andrei Margeloiu on Facebook and Youtube, where he presents his views on the world and how they change as he navigates his 20s. I thoroughly enjoyed…

This is a very unofficial travel guide written for a target audience of US based, roughly college / youngish professional people planning a trip to the beautiful country of Thailand. Please keep in mind that I have absolutely no Thai history, culture or tourism experience other than having lived in…