To everyone who's asked, here's why I'm gapping:
- be more intentional with school
- travel while I'm young
- work on side hustles without visa restrictions
- find my north star again
and the list goes on
in my 20 yrs of life, why has the hardest thing to learn not been
PDEs in 5 hrs
quantum physics in 1 day
400 pages of ochem in a weekend
3 yrs of chem in 2 months
but that i am worthy of love
Anyone who knows me knows that I was the BIGGEST
@Poptropica
nerd as a kid. Istg I learned so much from that game:
- How to extract DNA (Cryptids)
- How to build a lemon battery, where + how to build a fire, where + how to fish (Survival)
- Buy low sell high (Skullduggery)
1/
I’m excited to share that I have been selected as an official recipient of
@TheDMZ
’s Women of the Year award of 2022!
It's truly an honour, and congratulations to all recipients!
#DMZIWD
Had a wonderful time this morning chatting about funding, waste repurposing, non-profit vs for-profit, and childhood pet stories on a walk-and-talk with
@DStrachman
!
So cool to visit the
@Shell
House for the Women in Tech & Innovation brunch at
#SXSW
right after getting to work with them on building a net-zero future for the past month!
cc:
@theksociety
Day 26/30:
- croffles & lattes after morning hike!
- free solar power banks, portable speakers, ice scrapers, etc.
- space heaters literally solve all problems
- first karaoke in SF!
- cooking
@easya_app
@vechainofficial
all day today
- Viet coffee ice cream
@humphryslocombe
😋
Learn a new coding language with me in an hour 6 hours before leaving for my flight while not being a lazy bum! They really meant it when they said you can learn to code anywhere 😂
@easya_app
My dad and his selfie stick earlier this morning solo-tripping in Prague on country no. 96
and me remote working from a cafe on a hot af Sunday in Kyoto having taken 36 flights in the past year
it runs in the blood
I got to meet THE
@ShelleyZalis
, CEO of
@femalequotient
today at
#SXSW
! Love everything you're doing with closing the gender gap and hope to one day become a thought leader too.
- Art forgery detection + who painted The Scream (Counterfeit)
- Alcatraz (Escape from Pelican Rock)
- How to turn manure into fuel (AstroKnights)
- How to beat the 3 towers of Hanoi (Game Show)
- Lock picking (Mystery Train)
- Osmium is the densest element (Monster Carnival)
2/
Crazy to see how much
@Poptropica
unleashed my curiosity and fueled my desire to explore. By providing the space to engage with the immediate world around me, it taught me how to synthesize information, solve problems independently, and learn as you go by interacting with others.
- Important historical events + who built the Statue of Liberty (Time Tangled)
- Lemon juice as invisible ink b/c heat oxidizes the carbon compounds (Shrink Ray)
- How to play mancala (Nabooti)
- What a Geiger counter is (Lunar Colony)
- Parts of Immune system (Virus Hunter)
3/
Loved getting to meet more women in blockchain today, including
@damaderoca
, CCO of
@Collab_Land_
! Really enjoyed getting to connect on the "why" behind our continued engagement with Blockchain over the hype.
I'm super excited to announce that I've been invited to the Canadian Chemistry Olympiad National Training Camp this year after earning a bronze medal and achieving one of the top 20 scores! I'll be writing the final IChO team selection test at the end of May.
Was super inspired by
@PhnamBagley
and
@MardisBagley
's talk on how we can design systems for the future to tackle society's greatest challenges, from community-centric design to computational school design.
@NonfictionD
Shoutout to
@DXdao_
for giving away crop tops as merch at
#ETHDenver2022
, when a lot of other sponsors didn't offer anything smaller than a medium.
Let's remember that people in web3 come from a diversity of backgrounds and in different shapes and sizes.
#InternationalWomensDay
When it takes over an hour to get through airport security b/c while you're going for a tech conference everyone else is escaping Toronto for March Break
the reality of gapping behind the scenes:
i was always a good kid, but didn't always listen to my parents
but tbh the biggest part of growing up was learning to think/make decisions for myself
i've put them thru a lot, but forever grateful for them raising me to be independent
What an honour to hear
@lizzo
keynote at
#SXSW
! I absolutely loved how she can talk about serious topics while also being herself and having a bit of fun.
Day 28/30:
- in flight omw to Brussels rn!
- stopped by SF pride parade yday it was so lit
- need to lock in where I'll be after Brussels; looks like I'll be posting up in Kyoto bf Tokyo
- mind blank for sentimental bday lessons think I'm still tryna avoid acknowledging the fact
Had some of the most serendipitous encounters here tonight - so crazy to bump into
@avantikaVC
again from SXSW and to meet
@nihalmehta
.
Thanks
@CharlieNYC
for inviting me!
Waited at a bus stop for 15 mins to get to the Austin Convention Center and had over 10 cars passing by honk their horns at me in that span of time.
Did not expect to get cat-called 10 times in my first 3 hours of being here?
Excited to launch FeedMeFree with
@0xDMello
today at the
@easya_app
hackathon! We built a dapp that tackles food waste and food insecurity on college campuses, allowing students to discover leftover free food and get rewarded with B3TR tokens for posting.
#360DaysofVeChain
Day 6/30:
- took myself on a saturday solo date in the city, got a free honey lavender latte
@CapitalOneCafe
, went thrifting
- realized how much money I could make if I sold all my crypto shirts to thrift stores
- fear of judgment is preventing me from posting; want a clean slate
An absolute honour to meet
@sandy_carter
today at the Unstoppable Women in Web3 brunch! From leading roles at IBM to AWS and now to
@unstoppableweb
, you are an absolute powerhouse and inspiration.
@UnstoppableWoW3
Day 13/30:
- looks like will be pit stopping SF again for a weekend before Brussels
- got catcalled yday in NY wrt my
@RaymondJames
tote bag I'm ded 😂
- almost reunion call w
@mattkrnwn
@maniksethii
minus
@ArivGupta
- heads down grinding immigration td, everything else can wait
Day 11/30:
- lowk why is crocheting so hard
- late night coded, setup Ubuntu
- got into
@Starknet
hacker house! gonna be in Brussels from 7/2-7/12 now (and turning 20 there)
- have to record for a vitamin commercial but I'm breaking out so bad rn 😭, ironic AF & worst timing ever
the cure to everything:
- 600 mg ibuprofen (leftover from wisdom teeth extraction)
- 1000 mg emergen-c packet (taken straight from the packet no water)
- 200 mg caffeine pill (pls with water do not chew)
istg no one is matching my freak
Day 24/30:
- leveraged
@Delta
free wifi on board & was hella productive; unfortunately discovered u cannot take zoom meetings in the sky
- need to stop falling asleep on random ppls shoulders 😭
- why did no one tell me it was SF deep tech week!! 😍
- i. am. so. cold. hElp
My besties r inspiring - I'm locking in as well.
I have 30 days before I turn 20 and I need to grow tf up bc I won't be a teen anymore.
If I don't post a wake up tweet by 6:10 AM EST I will venmo $1 to my first follower who calls me out.
That's it, I need to lock in.
There are 16 days left for this semester, and I need to hold myself accountable.
Starting tomorrow, if I don't post a "wake-up tweet" before 6:10 a.m. PST
I will venmo the first follower who @'s me $1
this is so fax and why I stay
there's no other industry that moves as fast, forces me to learn as quick, and allows me to see the world for free at a young age
Crypto is the best space for proactive smart kids -
People who get into rabbitholes for no reason other than it’s interesting
People who enjoy building and learning things on weekends just for fun
People who research through problems and write long-form pieces
It gives
My mom has finally learned how to use ChatGPT and now no longer needs me to edit her emails for grammar and professionalism. Feeling so grateful for how technology can be so enabling.
For the month of October, I'll be building in public - sharing my goals, thoughts, reflections, projects, and progress every day. I find that we tend to only show the presentable results, rather than the process and failures.
Kicking off Day 1 with goals for the month:
Just completed the Stellar passkey activation at the
#SheFiSummit
! Here's to advancing blockchain and empowering women in Web3. 💫 💪
@stellarorg
@shefiorg
Day 19/30:
- baked matcha cinnamon rolls yday! + tea spill catch-up
- should go all the way to South Philly for a Penn asian alumni mixer in this heat 😭
-
@CapitalOneCafe
workers rmbr'd me; love brands that build little community spaces & make temp relationships more meaningful
Super happy to announce that my team along with
@harsehajd
was chosen as one of the 4 finalists and awarded a $5000 prize at the
#DMZHackAgainstHate
hackathon hosted by
@TheDMZ
@PennyAppealCa
!
Tune in to hear us pitch to the public at
Day 2 of
#buildinpublic
Two main priorities for today:
1. Writing my SAT - let's crush this 😎
2. Analyzing an MIT case study - more on this later today
Life is like a figure 8. There are 2 circles that you could be in: a positive or negative feedback loop. You have to be the one to figure out what you must change to deviate from the path that would keep you on the negative loop and steer you into the positive loop.
Everyone getting fucked up at this
#SBC
crypto bar while I'm sitting here tip tapping away on my laptop finishing my
@southpkcommons
application munching on hichews
@xElenaYangx
Move to Denver :) not small b/c it's a city but the mountains are 30 min away and they're breathtaking. The amount of "city" was the perfect amount so I'd have enough to explore and I thought it was just such a quaint place and the ppl were so nice they gave me Toronto ppl vibes
Day 22/30:
- acc cried tears of joy when my immigration lawyer replied to my email yday & was super impressed w my profile, here I was re-evaluating all my life decisions
- been feeling out of my head/not grounded/not myself recently...idk what this is
- last day in Philly tmw 😮
Day 9/30:
- woke up naturally at 5 YAY
- 600 mg ibuprofen + 1000 mg vitamin C always does the trick
- Soft Matter Symposium day 1 today!
- hitting sips today SO EXCITED
- bought bus tix for ny this weekend bc ube fest is back
- made a new gaslighting sign for o1 accountability
Day 27/30:
- hack due at noon! time to lock tf in rahhh
- frat partied way too hard last night
- random mega cravings for salad yday
- flying to Brussels tmw ✈️ gonna miss SF :(
- last SF adventure: explore tenderloin today? watch sunset? discover yummy Viet food? 🤔
Day 30/30:
- was born at 5 AM est on the dot, last 7 hrs of being 19!
- jet lag is so real my
@StarknetFndn
HH roommate & I have opposite sleep schedules
- everyone here is so smart I feel so lucky to be here
- locking in till morning w zk threads research
- HH is SO BOUGIE
I'm so honoured to have made it onto the 25 Most Inspirational Girls in
#Web3
and
#Metaverse
List!
A huge thank you to
@UnstoppableWoW3
and
@MissOCoolGirls
for this opportunity and for all the nominations!
See the full list here:
Day 4/30:
- fell back in love w reading research papers yday
- earlobe support patches ACTUALLY WORK
- we be shippin in internships 😃
- finally caved and tried
@motionapp_
- think I wanna become a smoothie girl this summer 🤔
- NEED TO CLEAN ROOM SO I CAN MAKE DRINK CONTENT
Day 5/30:
- made janus particles in the lab yday;
@skyler_chan_
said it looked like boba 😂
- think my toxic trait is gaslighting/torturing myself into productivity but it works? 🤷♀️
- been productive but still have too many things half done; need to implement one-touch policy
Day 5 of
#buildinpublic
Featured in
@tdotwomen
's magazine today!
1. Participated in a round table with
@CareerProCanada
this morning
2. Finishing up remaining school work
3. Focus mode on uni essays for tonight
Insight of the day 👇
Today I popped by to say hi to my undergraduate coordinator and she told me "Remember your main responsibility is being a student, so focus less on your side things"
...lol
Day 7 of
#buildinpublic
I spent way too much time today giving feedback & delegating tasks, and wasn't able to finish personal things I wanted to get done. I felt frustrated knowing that I could have finished the task faster if I just did it myself. Thoughts on overcoming this?
This week I’m participating in the
@TheDMZ
#DMZHackAgainstHate
online competition in partnership with
@pennyappealca
💪 Excited to be finding solutions to combat hate crime with digital technology!
Looking for a place to stay in Austin from March 10-19 for
#SXSW2022
. Does anyone know of any hacker houses / places I can check in as a minor? Would appreciate any help I can get 🙏
Day 23/30:
- SIPS w parents was crazy; tried caviar & foie gras for the first time
- flying to SF tmw morn!!
- 1st meeting w immigration lawyer! went so well maybe I've underestimated my impact on the world; now just have to make the ask for sponsor...
- send Japan recs!
imagine spending ur 20th bday half asleep due to jetlag, being a code monkey, freezing to death, having none of ur loved ones around u, and getting food poisoning 🥲
why did I choose this path for myself