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2024
Your Bi 1 in April
“It’s the first spring wind!” — Your Lie in April
Back
“Like a worm in the bud…” — Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Habits
“He arranged his things very nicely / and decided to sit in his chair for a while.” — Ezra Jack Keats, Peter’s Chair
Ain’t It Fun
“…living in the real world?” — Paramore
Play Imitates Work
“All of these stars are actually shining just for you.” — The Boxer
Physics in the Shower
“Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.” — R. P. Feynman
You Are My Special
“And he tasted both…” — Prof. Hosea Nelson
Resolution of 366
“但我坦然，欣然。我将大笑，我将歌唱。” —《野草》鲁迅
2023
Her Year
“I want your midnights.” — Taylor Swift, “New Year’s Day”
The Giving Tree
“Cut down my trunk and make a boat… Then you can sail away… and be happy.” — The Giving Tree
Nineteen’s Summer
“Because I choose to.” — Thomas A. Anderson
College Admissions Guide
“Pursue excellence, and success will chase you… pants down.” — Rancho, 3 Idiots (2009)
For Protofrosh
“将军，我们已经有一个礼拜没有吃到冰淇淋了！” — 《甲方乙方》(1997)
The First Season
“There’ll be others. To the others, all of them.” — Peaky Blinders
Food Review
“反正我已经习惯晚睡，不知不觉又要三四点。我好害怕害怕失眠，更怕妈叫我吃早点。” — 《习惯晚睡》Ronghao Li 李荣浩
T for Thanksgiving
“缓缓飘落的枫叶像思念，为何挽回要赶在冬天来之前” — 《枫》Jay Chou 周杰伦
One Must Imagine
“I miss you more than I remember you.” — Ocean Vuong
The Perfect Machine
“Wait, if they collude with us and we collude with them, it’s a win-win!” — Anonymous
Sonder
“I am nothing, but I must be everything.” — Karl Marx
Safe and Warm
“I’m addicted to psets.” — J
Paper Stars
“The admissions team didn’t make a mistake—you did.” — Caltech students
One Cruel Summer’s Day
“He got my heart beat / Skipping down 16th Avenue.” — Taylor Swift, “I Think He Knows (Taylor’s Version)”
Joys of the Job
“A sense of reality breathes life into a piece of work, and goes hand in hand with entertainment.” — Kishibe Rohan
Inherit the Wind
“If the result is all that matters to you, you start taking shortcuts. And when you take shortcuts, you start to lose sight of the truth.” — Abbacchio’s part...
Open
“Do you ever get weak like Monday morning, baby girl?” — Dominic Fike, “Hey Blondie” from the Barbie Movie
Seal of Approval
“The winter months are always the most difficult for the pyroshark, so the summer sun gives them plenty of time for the necessary hunt.” — Jerma985
Smort
“There are two reasons a person feels the desire to teach something: either to pass on successes or pass on failures.” — Koro Sensei
IT’S OVA
“Wasn’t even all you.” — Jeremy Elbertson
High Horses
“We can run the bases, y’all should just stick to titrating them.” — J.T.
Internmediate
“The best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher.” — Richard Feynman, Foreword of The ...
Onward!
“Man is the joy of man.” — Havamal
Triple
“‘Not when you’re looking back at them,’ she said. ‘You wonder how they vanished so quickly.’” — Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
I, Chatbot
“‘Not when you’re looking back at them,’ she said. ‘You wonder how they vanished so quickly.’” — Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
Curtain Call
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” — Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
DiscoTech 2023
“The best part is that I get to read 3 days of webtoons” — Unknown scribe
Change is Good
“The village, to grandfather.” — Anton Chekhov, “Vanka”
One Hundred Years of Decline
“One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!” — Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Snow Day
“I’m tired of failing that boating test. I’ve already taken it 37 times.” — Spongebob Squarepants, Season 1 Episode 4
Old Driver
“Night wraps the sky in tribute from the stars.
Year of the Rabbit
“There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people’s eyes.” — Zhu Guangqian
Jumpstart
Reality is made of expectations
2022
The Young Boy and the Sea
“Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?” — Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
Back to the Present
“You’re not thinking fourth dimensionally.” — Doc Brown, Back to the Future, Part III
The World
“Fallen leaves on the windowsill and my memories fold together.” — Jay Chou【枫】
Stuff To Do
“That season, whatever you call it, often feels more like the new year than the New Year itself.” — “A Short, Welcome Season” by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Dinner
“That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day.” —Life of Pi
Last Seasons of 17
“All rivers flow into the ocean; when will they return?” —《长歌行》
Golden Snake: Summer of Math Exposition 2
“Life lies in movement.” — Voltaire
Summer Learning
“There is always a bigger fish.” — Unknown
Speaking and Thermodynamics
“It could have been otherwise.” — Jane Kenyon, “Otherwise”
Summertime
“Well we do have someone named Palm Zhang in our list” - Dentist’s office
Springtime
“Well, it’s back to the drawing board… But I don’t know how to draw so you’re gonna have to do the drawing” - Police Officer 1
M3 Part 2
“What if you were mini and stuck in a blender?”
2021
M3
“R-R-R-RANK ONE!”
Disrespect and Engagement
“I wish I could just shut the door five minutes after class starts” - Uncle P
24 Points and Other Things
Hey there, I’m back for another post on this cloudy Wednesday.
SAT Prep Strats
As a top SAT-scorer, I would like to share some of the best review resources that I know of.
Link Click
“Regardless of the past, we will definitely change the future.” — Lu Guang, Link Click
Mental Tension
“The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.” — T.S. Eliot
King Bob
“Banana!” — King Bob
Succinct Story
“If you were from where I was from…” — Scout
Embarrassing
“Now that’s downright embarrassing.” — Sniper
Ex-Semi-Professional Chef
“Asparagus is the funniest vegetable” - W
The Royal Court
“This is ([high school]), not a pressure cooker” - 3 Idiots
August 2021 Status Update
Hello everyone, I’m just going to write a short status update on what I have been doing.
Weird Game Techniques
“What is that cheese bro?” — Unknown
Data Visualization with Plotly
“Open your eyes.” — Morpheus
My First 3D Modeling Experience
“Diggy diggy hole.” — Yogscast
Getting Started with Programming
“Pulling the puzzles apart.” — Coldplay, “The Scientist”
Jekyll and Github Pages
“All things are difficult before they are easy. Lucky # 4, 9, 13, 22, 35.” — F.C.