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Welcome to the blog! I write about life as a graduate student and guides that I would have found helpful earlier on in the program. I also keep tabs on cool tech that I adopt into my workflows. Lastly, I am hobbyist and like to share my thoughts, recommendations, and guides on those topics. Enjoy!

The Positionality Series

The Importance of Rejection in Academia

The Mass Effect Trilogy: Becoming Legend

Video Game Backlog Chronicles: Little Learnings and Wins

Video Game Backlog Chronicles: Game Selection Methodology

Passkeys: Simpler and More Complicated Than You Thought

On Prey

The Video Game Backlog Chronicles

Lessons Learned from an XCOM First-Timer

A Love Letter to Mass Effect 2

Video Game Opinions

What If You Changed… Everything? New Research, New Committee.

Zettelkasten: My New Everything System

Academic Conferences are Settler Colonialism

Manga Reading List

Anime Reviews

Yuri Manga Reviews

My First Pokémon Nuzlocke Run: Shining Pearl

Pokémon Nuzlocke Tools, Tips & Tricks!

Pokémon Battling Basics

A Reasonable Guide to Personal Security & Privacy

Finding Academic Community

PhD Candidacy FAQ

A PhD Candidacy Postmortem

What’s in a Name? On Changing Your Name in Academia

Make the Switch Off of Google: A Guide on Making Email Swapping Suck Less

Really Cool Tools! Tech that Gets Me Through the Week

The Power of Networks: How to Make the Most of Your Internship

The Qualifying Exam

Why I Switched to ProtonMail (from Tutanota)

Industry Internship Application Guide

My Journey to an Industry Internship

Grad Student Organizational Toolkit

What Does it Mean to be First Author?

The Politic of the NSF GRFP