People stared quizzically at me as I loitered around the batting cages with my breadboards, circuit wires, and a microcontroller. My eighth grade self didn’t let their antagonistic looks deter me from achieving my goal of designing a baseball helmet safer than one of a billion dollar company. So, I decided to launch a 60 mile per hour fastball to test my haphazardly built prototype. The electrical devices testing the impact to the brain revealed nothing… The baseball destroyed all...

For 3 billion people, basic internet access and safe water are not guaranteed. Computer science and programming inspires me to think about why we have situations like this and how we can fix them. Last spring, I developed a software image processing application, Clean Future, that allows people in third-world countries to determine whether their water is clean. While researching this prevalent issue, I learned about the technology discrepancy present in our world. Building a website or app was out of...

DIRE SITUATION: DORM ROOM + ROOMMATE NEEDED (Craigslist Ads -- Stanford) Tried commuting from San Jose. Didn’t realize how bad of a place that was until now. Need a place to stay ASAP!!! Location: Stanford, CA (preferably Florence Moore Hall) Price: I guess it's up to Stanford University???? Just know that every dollar increase in rent means one more ramen noodle soup and one less actual meal every month. About Me: -Clean -Kind -Is going to steal your barbeque potato...

ACCESS DENIED! This large message jumped up onto my screen as I tried to access an Alzheimer’s brain scan database. Multiple days spent trying to find a workaround were ultimately futile in finding a solution. I decided to express this frustration in an unconventional place: debate. Debate is meaningful to me as it allows me to bring attention to important scientific problems often overlooked by mainstream media. Issues such as data accessibility and standardization not only affect me, but...