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Filter by tag (any match) and sort by date or grade. Graded by my critical self, out of 100.

13 posts tagged Thoughts

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How I Built This Website0/100
A storyboard, a weekend, and a lot of arguing with a language model about spacing.
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A Letter From My Younger Self (2016)88/100
An article I wrote as a high school junior, republished in full, annotated with a decade of context attached.
Gamifying My House Remodel by Accident88/100
I set out to pick a rug size and ended up building a first person walkthrough of my own house. The 3D view caught three layout mistakes the floor plan had quietly approved.
A Letter To My Younger/Older Self (2026)12/100
The other direction. Writing forward instead of annotating backward, to the kid who wrote that article and to whoever reads this in another ten years.
Why I Financed My Car80/100
The opportunity-cost math behind financing instead of paying cash, and where that money went instead.
Analyzing My Own College Essays90/100
Going back to the essays that got me rejected from most UCs and talking about it. (I'm half joking, it was mostly my poor high school grades. I think these essays were stronger than my transcript.)
My Thoughts On Grad School65/100
What two degrees at UC Davis actually taught me, and what I'd tell someone deciding whether to go.
My Powerlifting Journey25/100
From a first meet as a teenager to #1 national ranking, and what the sport has taught me about discipline.