• books,  tech

    I Forced an AI Bot to Write a Warrior Cats Book

    If you know me, then you probably know that one of my biggest obsessions through elementary and middle school was the warrior cats book series by Erin Hunter. Part of the reason that I fell in love with this book series and the warrior cats universe is how much content there is to get through— with over 100 main-series books, novellas, and super-editions combined, there was a never-ending flow of content for little me to consume. I used to read every single new book as soon as it came out, and even though I haven’t been keeping up as closely since graduating middle school, the series still holds a very…

  • life

    my favourite restaurants in nyc

    Officially, I was in New York this summer to work. Unofficially, I was there to eat all of the delicious food that the city has to offer. So here are my reviews of some of the highlights! 🍥🍥🍥 麻辣香鍋 (mala dry pot) at Zhang Liang I absolutely love spicy food, and my favourite thing about this dry pot restaurant is that you can choose exactly which ingredients you want in your dry pot (or soup, however you prefer it). You just grab a metal bowl and a pair of tongs by the entrance and choose the ingredients you want, then pay by weight and wait for the cooked dish to…

  • life

    things look a little different around here

    This Thanksgiving marks four years since I started this blog— I remember working on my first couple of posts sitting at my cousin’s house during Thanksgiving break in 2018, just like I’m doing now! It’s crazy to think back and reflect on how much has changed since then… I’m no longer in high school, for starters, and I’m now going to college on the East Coast, which is pretty far away from where I had been living in California. (I’m actually pretty close to finishing off my bachelor’s degree, which is crazy to think about, assuming I can get through the last couple of classes, that is.) Even though there…

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    Ten Books I Read This Month

    Whenever I get asked the question “what do you like to do for fun?” reading is always one of the hobbies I list first— I think I actually wrote one of my MIT application essays on how much I liked books— but this past semester I spent the majority of my time reading textbooks and pset problems and articles on dummies.com and not much else. Tragically so, because reading was a huge part of my life back in high school, but since starting college and no longer having access to the neighbourhood library that I used to frequent I’ve been reading a lot less than I used to. So as…