Last week, my lab members and I had our first ‘scrum’ session. It was intended for us to share the challenges and failures we have encountered over the past week and to provide both emotional and practical support to each other. Vicky started by sharing her frustration over the inability to obtain statistically significant results…
The feeling of disorientation is a rare experience for New York City, and Central Park is one of the few places where you would find it. Recently, as I started running in Central Park, the sense of disorientation has become stronger than ever. I would usually start my run at the 77th street entrance on…
I did not form the habit of reading until after I started to work. Having just committed my first serious job-related mistake and dreaded by the subsequent criticism and self-doubt, I decided to embrace reading as a distraction. I picked from the shelf Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky–a book I purchased in my freshman…
The COVID-19 has substantially transformed my mode of living. Having stayed home for more than a month, I find myself dwelling more and more upon my memories traversing the city, particularly via bike. As I foresee the epidemic to continue throughout the summer, and my imminent moving to graduate school somewhere else, I am occasionally…
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I graduated from NYU in 2018 and am currently a PhD student at the University of Southern California, where I am exploring my interest in emotion, morality, and social networks.
When not doing research, I like to read, take photos, and play various sports, especially tennis and skiing.
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