Newest pages:

1. Guest article: Dining with a Tiger Cub 2012-02-11
2. My computer setup 2011-12-10
3. Enforcing diversity in online media consumption 2011-09-25
4. Tips for giving a live software demo 2011-06-30
5. The main purpose of education 2010-10-04

Recently updated pages:

1. Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford Computer Science Department 2012-02-08
2. Emails from readers 2011-12-23
3. Advice for applying for graduate science fellowships: NSF, NDSEG, Hertz 2011-12-23
4. Online Python Tutor 2011-09-17
5. Reflections and advice on life as a mid-stage Ph.D. student 2011-08-10

Overview

I created my first website in 1997 during the stone age of the Web. In recent years, I've mostly used this website to share articles on topics ranging from:

• theories of middle and high school popularity

• negative consequences of overbearing Asian parents pushing their kids to excel academically

• advice for getting accepted into graduate school and winning science research fellowships

• evangelizing the benefits of synchronizing your data across different computers using Unison

• thinking about how to effectively teach programming to and supporting Python as a teaching language

Before I started sharing my writing publicly, this website was mostly a showcase for my childhood photography hobby. Click on any thumbnail on this page to see a gallery of related photos, or reload this page to see more photo thumbnails randomly sampled from my collection. Some of my favorite photos are from my Summer 2000 and Summer 2005 tours of rural China.