Science
Why does ice melt?
Ice, water, and steam are all made of the same molecule, so why does one turn into another at a sharp temperature? Melting is a trade: the ice gains entropy, the room pays for it, and temperature sets the exchange rate.
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The Journal
My online scrapbook
Essays4
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Entropy and the arrow of time
Physicists say no law is more sacred than the second law of thermodynamics. With the help of a stopwatch, a box of coins, and a little fifth-grade counting, you can see what entropy really is and why time only runs one way.
Ideas
i love you, bro
Men are given little social leniency to be physically and emotionally intimate with other men in a way that is race-dependent. This has led to the intersection of male intimacy and race being used as a comedic punchline both in social media trends and Hollywood films.
Ideas
The passion for learning grades
College students are more worried about their test scores than their actual understanding of the content they are learning, to no fault of their own. Read about this issue and my proposed solution on the Emory Wheel.
Notebook5
Browse by topicSymmetry transformations of fields Physics
How scalar, vector, covector, and general tensor fields transform under the symmetries of a group.
What is Astro? WebDev
A simple introduction to Astro — the web framework powering this website.
What is WebGL? WebDev
Use that GPU!
Why random walks spread like √t Physics
A one-paragraph intuition for diffusive scaling.
A picture proof of the product rule Math
The product rule falls out of a rectangle — no calculus required.
Science
Why does ice melt?
Ice, water, and steam are all made of the same molecule, so why does one turn into another at a sharp temperature? Melting is a trade: the ice gains entropy, the room pays for it, and temperature sets the exchange rate.
Science
Entropy and the arrow of time
Physicists say no law is more sacred than the second law of thermodynamics. With the help of a stopwatch, a box of coins, and a little fifth-grade counting, you can see what entropy really is and why time only runs one way.
Ideas
i love you, bro
Men are given little social leniency to be physically and emotionally intimate with other men in a way that is race-dependent. This has led to the intersection of male intimacy and race being used as a comedic punchline both in social media trends and Hollywood films.
Ideas
The passion for learning grades
College students are more worried about their test scores than their actual understanding of the content they are learning, to no fault of their own. Read about this issue and my proposed solution on the Emory Wheel.
Math1
A picture proof of the product rule
The product rule falls out of a rectangle — no calculus required.
Physics2
Symmetry transformations of fields
How scalar, vector, covector, and general tensor fields transform under the symmetries of a group.
Why random walks spread like √t
A one-paragraph intuition for diffusive scaling.
WebDev2
What is Astro?
A simple introduction to Astro — the web framework powering this website.
What is WebGL?
Use that GPU!
2026
Jul 31
Back from the Boulder summer school in Colorado
Mountains are nice.
Apr 10
Spoke at the inaugural Dean of Science Symposium and patron's dinner
Represented physics at the inaugural symposium, and told my story at the Patron's Dinner.
2025
Oct 31
Promoted MIT to Hispanic and Native-American students at the SACNAS conference
Science is for everyone
Jul 4
Back from the IHES summer school in Paris
Bless the urban designers of this city.
Mar 12
Passed my candidacy exam
All but dissertation!
2023
May 20
Graduated from Emory University
Onto the next!
Mar 21
Admitted to MIT Physics with fellowship!
I'm going to be a doctor!
2022
Dec 26
My study abroad in Korea
I love bulgogi.
2020
Mar 14
From premed to physics
I went from having never taken a physics class to declaring a physics major in the span of two semesters.
2019