Sometimes all you need is a clean microfiber cloth

Ever since the daylight savings were turned off over the first weekend of November, I have been having a hard time driving. As the sun sets earlier, my evening commutes were in the dark. Since I live in the PNW, my commutes also began involving the rain more often.

Year 2024 in Review

My annual review for 2024 is here (after skipping the 2023 version). This contains less stats and more personal reflections. And you will see why.

Ph.D. Graduation Speech

The Department of Statistics at the University of Washington held its commencement ceremony for the 2023-2024 academic year on June 7, 2024. I was nominated by the Ph.D. students to give a speech at the ceremony. You can find the speech here. Here is the transcript:

Looking behind at 2022 and looking ahead at 2023

Since starting in 2016 over the winter break of my first year as an undergrad, this annual retrospective seems to be the onlt thing keeping this blog alive. I do ocassionally write some guides, but nothing for the blog itself. I hope to add more to the blog but, right now, I don’t have a timeline for that. In the meantime, I intend to keep the tradition of these annual round-ups of the past year.

Looking Behind and Looking Ahead: 2021 and 2022

Here it is: the annual retrospection for 2021.

I started writing this on January 6, 2022. And this was sitting in my drafts for almost 2 months. Don’t ask why.

Looking back on 2020

2020 was an interesting year to say the least. You’ve probably heard it phrased a dozen different ways from a gross number of people. So I won’t try to describe it more, except that I’ll use it as an excuse for being 3 months late. It’s also an excuse for why I won’t do the usual by the numbers format I did the last two years.

This time, I’ll just list the highlights (ups and downs) of the past year, and the things I’m looking forward to this year.

Identifying the Why

The why is one of the most difficult introspective questions to answer. There are different why’s in life. Why is my current life this way? Why is my ideal life that way? Why is there a difference between the two? These are difficult questions to answer because they are broad, abstract, and often have no one right answer. After spending a good amount of time thinking, in this article, I try to develop a framework for approaching these questions.