Thank you for visiting!

This is my blog. I use it for keeping track of life and sharing on the Internet, in hopes that the people reading are cool and nice. If you’re here, you probably are. Thank you.

My primary hobbies have developed over time and all sort of fit together. They’re most of what I write about on the blog. I’m a fan of:

• 中文
• Urbanism
• Politics & history
• Photography
• Electric things

I’ve studied Mandarin for a few years, I’ve listened to lots of podcasts about city design and the climate, and my mom taught me to appreciate the power of protests. I like taking photos on bad digital cameras (I have a Sony Mavica FD83 and an iPhone 3G for that purpose). I like any espresso (good, bad, Starbucks, whatever).

I’m from Concord, New Hampshire, but I’ve been going to school at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York for a few years now. I’m still an undergrad. I started out majoring in microelectronics/electrical engineering/that sort of thing and then added a double-major in Chinese language.

In fall 2025 I’m in Taichung City, Taiwan trying to make career connections and doing intern things in a research group. Taichung is truly the world’s greatest underrated and underrepresented city (the bus capital of the world, jazz capital of Asia, and the home of Lu Shiow-yen, 3:15 PM milk tea, and the super fancy Chun Shui Tang restaurant chain that originated boba tea for the world to enjoy). If you’re not in Taichung, you can enjoy the soundtrack to the city, or, at least, its tiny and short but adorable metro system.

I try my hardest to love the places that I go, and I’ve been successful so far. While I can’t readily travel wherever I want, whenever I want, I do love traveling and especially “being a tourist in my own city”. I walk around, take pictures and then edit them obsessively while stumbling down the sidewalk using my smartphone like a tourist with no shame.

Rochester is a place that is both easy to love and easy to hate (see: optimism and pessimism on rocwiki.org). Considering that it’s where I’m going through my college experience, seeing things, starting to have a life, friends, and things to do, I prefer to stay optimistic. I encourage other people to do the same.

On this blog, I’ll mostly write about the places that I go and the things that I see and do as they relate to my interests (seems like a good general description of any blog, actually). I like keeping the topics focused, but the things that I write about usually just come out of my fingers, through the keyboard and into the screen.

Thanks for the visit. I hope my words are valuable to you, somehow. That’s the goal, anyway.

See you around!