coming to mit was powerful for me. not the most pleasant — perhaps a little boring — but still powerful.
my life has largely revolved around being a generalist, and i think that is what separates me from the people in labs here (not in a good way). i'm not that far behind in terms of aptitude, skill, or sharpness (although i shall admit that people are way smarter here, but reaching there for a particular subject matter is not impossible).
i need to become specific, if i am to go down the path of research. or i can choose not to too, and be good at a bunch of different things, and make peace with the fact that i may not become a researcher.
itp is a wonderful place. we have the facility, we have the people. we may not be doing technologically-advanced work (and perhaps a lot of it is old technology reapplied), but i think there is still something there.
some of it is luck; some of it is being fearlessly sure of the thing you are doing and want to do.
automatically, i beat out a lot of people with sheer relentlessness. the rest of it is being at the right place at the right time, a little bit of luck and going with what the universe presents itself with.
i need to be wiser with how i spend my time. i don't need to surround myself with mediocrity, egocentricity, bullheadedness, boringness. i have every right to command over my time, and look at time as a far more precious resource than i do now.
become so good that you command respect.
surviving as an immigrant, working technology & the arts requires you to be loud, famous on the internet, et-cetera. i wonder if i want to do that with my life.
is the quality of my life worth more than the cost of my ambition?
we also won an electronics-prize at the hackathon — at a hackathon with engineers from the top schools of the world. that goes to ascertain that i'm not far behind.
what we made:
other projects:
using electrodes to control body.
duck typing by ling dong huang. i didn’t have the courage to speak with him.
all people before the presentations: