Reflections 2017

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Hello again

It’s been a while. I’ve been pretty busy do­ing se­nior year things like col­lege ap­pli­ca­tions and se­nior re­search (cough not re­ally). But any­way, I fig­ured now would be a good time to re­flect on this past year - what I did, what I did­n’t do, and what I should be do­ing next year.

This Year in Numbers

563 Github Contributions

1 Palantir Social Impact Prize

4 weeks spent sur­viv­ing PHP and MySQL dur­ing my in­tern­ship, dur­ing which:

  • I added 18 ho­tels
  • processed 64 im­ages
  • and mod­i­fied 10055 lines of code!

6 col­lege ap­pli­ca­tions sub­mit­ted (and 1 ac­cep­tance re­ceived!!!)

In Ion, I made 168 com­mits, with 4230 ad­di­tions and 6669 dele­tions.

I cleared 10 feet in pole vault, very nar­rowly qual­i­fy­ing my­self for states!

3 AP ex­ams taken

Revisiting Last Year

I made a post on January 1st that listed some goals for the year. Let’s see how well I did.

This Website

There’s still lots of work to be done, par­tic­u­larly in the lit­tle “terminal” easter egg on the home page, but I’m very happy with the site.

I def­i­nitely worked on the web­site quite a bit this year. I fixed some big bugs with the ter­mi­nal, and added some use­ful tools to im­prove my work­flow. It’s def­i­nitely a lot of fun to work on.

This Blog

I def­i­nitely plan on post­ing more, and hope­fully at least once every week

Oops. I kinda dropped the ball on this one… That said, I did post more of­ten than be­fore, and I at­tribute that en­tirely to a smoother cre­ation flow.

This Life

That said, I’ll take to heart Dory’s ad­vice of “Just keep swim­ming”, and keep you guys up­dated.

Update: I kept swim­ming, and fin­ished ju­nior pretty darn strong. It was hard, but to­tally worth it.

Looking for­ward

Here are my res­o­lu­tions for this year:

  • Go to col­lege
  • Clear 11′
  • Double the num­ber of blog posts
  • Get 100 stars on Github.