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
• Espresso

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 a newly-acquired 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’ve been majoring in microelectronics/electrical engineering/that sort of thing and recently added a double-major in Chinese language.

I need to study abroad in order to finish the language double major, and for fall 2025 I’m in Taichung City doing an engineering internship, but will need to go back for a language program. I went earlier in 2025, too, for a week, and did plenty of studying and reading up in the meantime, but probably won’t be able to go and express my opinions with the power of signs and protests without violating the terms of my visa, which is disappointing.

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!