This is an attempt by me to express myself through writing. Unfortunately, doing so does appeal to the ego a tad too much for my liking, so don’t expect these too often, maybe yearly at most. Still, had tremendous fun writing this, and I think this style captures what I wanted from my writing as a whole!

More coming soon! Sorry for the hiatus :/

Hello! I’m still alive! Had a busy, busy year, so I’ve got a LOT to show. I’m sure many of you have seen at least some of the news I’ll be ‘introducing’, and hopefully some of you can see where this is going.

Academics - The Highlight

Imperial College’s Physics Department requires each Year 1 student to produce a Summer Project - a full project in all but length. We’re grouped into fours, allowed to choose our own topics, and are otherwise set free to roam the great fields of Term 3 burnout.

Our group investigated Tropical Cyclones. More specifically, we looked at Wind Shear and Dry Air Entrainment, which are environmental factors that influence the strength of a Tropical Cyclone. The former refers to the change of the measured windspeeds radially and vertically along the cyclone, and the latter the process in which stable dry air enters the cyclone, disrupts the convection within the cyclone, and weakens it. Throughout the project, I essentially functioned as the ‘data guy’ for the investigation, and by the end of it we’d managed to produce a couple cool animations from satellite data and our own models. Actually, looking at how my team produced their models, in hindsight I really wasn’t aware that:

• There’s a lot of very good models already on research papers. Modelling doesn’t mean you have to make one from scratch! • Producing a good-quality dataset for tropical cyclones, factoring in environmental conditions (i.e ENSO strengths) is almost impossible and will require concessions • Fluids itself takes a lot of time to understand, but simplifying them down into layman’s mechanics terms (i.e realising that this or that line integral simply refers to a torque) helps a ton. • A plan helps! My group struggled a ton initially because we were all a little lost on what to do.

One part of the Project allowed us to present in an exhibition for Open Days in the department. It was a nice experience getting to show people what we’d researched on. A surprising amount of people turned up to our exhibition, and we’d even managed to get a decent number of votes for the best exhibit! Thanks to Maxwell and Stephanie for turning up, since without Max (on Day 1) I think we would’ve gotten overwhelmed. I’m sure my brain was happy to clock out as soon as we’d finished the exhibition :D.

Reading ‘n Writing

I am now a published author (somehow)! Find my story at https://phoenixzine.org/static/issues/03.pdf.

Since there’s another two years between editions, I’m now free to work on exploring some of the ideas about my world I’m having. Falling Stars is going to see a LOT more activity in the future. Currently exploring the first planet in the Solar System - Mercury!

Other Things I’ve been up to!

And since I can’t figure out how to turn my other achievements into 3-paragraph LinkedIn pieces:

• I am now a Voice Actor! Well, it’s only 4 lines (and 6 words, XD), but auditioning was tremendous fun. Maybe I’ll take voice coaching in the distant future, because hot rocks I do need it XD. (Video coming soon, I’ll link it when I get around to recording) • I have begun drawing! I’m still total crap. No photo for now, because I’m still at the level where everything is embarrassing. Working on it! • Managed to survive the UK rail network, went to my first concert, first sporting event… the list goes on and on! Had a blast this year, despite the roadbumps during Term 2 and the burnout in Term 3.

Alright, that’s enough from me for now. Be back next year (or earlier, if I finish my stories)!