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About me

• Hobbies? Being with friends, writing stories, playing video games, creating video games.
• What games? Couch co-op, horror, Pokémon, Minecraft, really old games.
• Comms? I have been a part of AVComm, KitchenComm, Fruit Comm, and MovieComm.
• Favorite foods? Steak.
• Favorite music? Trap, hardstyle, heavy metal, happy hardcore, nightcore, EDM, or really anything so long as it sounds good™.
• Want to hear a joke?
  Why did the man fall into the well?

  -- Because he could not see that well
• Have more questions? Talk with me, I'm usually at Floor Pi.
• Have too few questions? See here.

My Courseroad

My home is a lovely suburban area in Northern California. Not only did I move to Massachusetts to complain for several years about its inferior weather, but also to study at MIT. This is my courseroad:

Prior credit

• 6.0001 Intro to CS programming in Python (ASE)
• 18.01 Calculus (AP credit)

Freshman year

Fall

• 3.091 Intro to solid-state chemistry
• 8.01 Physics I
• 12.000 Solving complex problems
• 18.022 Multidimensional vector calculus
• 21W.031 Communicating science & technology

Spring

• 1.016 Complex environmental issues
• 7.014 Intro biology
• 8.02 Physics II
• 18.03 DiffyQ
• 18.05 Intro to probability & statistics

Summer

• UROP in Materials science & engineering

3.091 in the Fall got me interested in majoring and UROPing in course 3, which is what I declared at the end of freshman year.

Sophomore

Fall

• UROP in Materials science & engineering
• 6.152[J] Micro/nano processing technology
• 6.002 Circuits & electronics
• 21W.747 Rhetoric

By this time, I've decided I'm a course 6. I ended up helping my graduate student by coding an algorithm that uses statistical and machine learning techniques anyway. I chose 6-2 for a few reasons, including that I was confused between the differences between 6-2 and 6-3. I'm more of a 6-2⅖ in the end.

Spring

• 3.987 Human evolution
• 6.003 Signals & systems
• 9.00 Intro to psychological science
• Lab assistant for 6.002

I didn't take any HASS classes in freshman Spring, so I decided to take two this semester.

Summer

I worked on personal projects back home in California. I might write more here later.

Junior

Fall

• 6.034 Artificial intelligence
• 6.036 Machine learning
• 6.S081 Human computational intelligence
• 6.801 Machine vision
• 9.85 Infant & early childhood cognition

Instead of 6.S081, I actually wanted to take 21M.361 Electronic Music Composition I. I attended their final project concert the previous semester and was inspired. (1), I'm a fan of electronic music and would like to have a taste of producing it professionally, and (2), it's already my Junior year and I still need to satisfy the HASS-A requirement. Sadly, it didn't fit my schedule. So instead, I signed up for 21M.080 Introduction to Music Technology, a brand new HASS-A subject at the time, teaching material similar to 21M.361. I was kicked out due to over-enrollment. That's fine, I took 6.S081 instead, a rewarding class with Bob Berwick, which, by petition, helped partially satisfy my major's AUS2 requirement.

I also recommend 6.034 with Patrick Winston. For AI, Patrick is the person to go to; and the grad students running behind the scenes put love into that class.

For Splash, I cotaught a class on chocolate science & truffle making.

I decided to minor in BCS, since I'm interested in BCS, I've already taken a few of the required classes, and CS and BCS make a great pair.

IAP

• 21G.901 Korean I

I also signed up for 6.S097 Introduction to Julia (the programming language), as I had heard about it from Deniz Yuret's talk on Knet in 6.034. By email, I was told to drop the class for going over a credit limit of 12 units. I immediately asked if it could be changed to listener status and did not hear a response until after 6.S097 was over, so I never attended any of their classes. (You can in fact take a class as listener during IAP without setting off this credit limit warning.)

I also participated in a student-led American Sign Language course.

Spring

• 6.08 Intro to EECS via interconnected embedded systems
• 6.UAT Oral communication in EECS
• 3.094 Materials in human experience
• 3.985 Archaeological science
• Lab assistant for 6.002

6.08? An Introductory EECS subject? Finally! I've been wanting to take 6.08 as my Introductory EECS subject since sophomore year, but it never fit my schedule! Due to this, this class was the most forgiving I've ever had. I am a big fan of the Internet of Things. 6.002 is a good continuation of 6.08.

Turns out BCS is no longer a HASS concentration; I had to shift gears this semester and choose to concentrate in archaeology, since it interests me and I've already taken 3.987. I had to squash so many of my precious course 9 subjects into next year and take three HASS classes more than planned. Yes, I'm salty.

TBD.

Summer

• UROP in 6-2. TBD.

Senior

Fall

I am planning to take:

• 9.01 Intro to neuroscience
• 6.021[J] Cellular neurophysiology and computing
• 9.46 Neuroscience of morality
• 3.986 Intro to archaeology
• 6.UAR

According to the catalog released a few weeks before the time of typing this, 6.021 and 9.46 conflict with each other in the time slot. thdbgah;gkthcabnachd (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Spring

I will probably be taking:

• 9.40 Intro to neural computation
• 6.006 Intro to algorithms
• 6.UAR

Personal projects

TBD.