My Summer 2020 (and quarantine so far...)
August 31, 2020
School starts tomorrow, so I thought this would be a good time to
reflect on this summer. This summer/quarantine has been one of the
most productive (loosely defined to include creativity :) periods
of time for me. Not just academically, but in a lot of other
things as well.
1. Reading + Blogging
I kinda stopped reading through junior and senior year of high
school and even in freshman year of college because I guess I had
too much going on. In quarantine, that changed for a couple of
reasons. Obviously, more time, but also Reema started liking the
same books as me. It’s nice having a reading buddy! I read lots of
books the past few months.
This is also my first time blogging or consistently writing down
my thoughts about something. I might change the website layout but
I hope to keep writing for a while :). It’ll be cool to look at in
the future. I guess I learnt a bit about HTML/CSS too while making
a blog.
2. Consistent exercise
It feels good! And helps make me more tired so I can sleep at
night easily. Shoutout to two snowflakes for participating and
encouraging :D
3. Chess
Just some daily blitz on lichess and now some detailed endgame
studies.
4. Drawing/Coloring
It was fun to draw out all my favorite characters or friends or
even random Pokémon! And really relaxing. Me and my sister also
wrote out backstories for some of the characters for fun!
Art of me and a best friend, and then Cookie Monster!
5. Driving and Cooking
Didn’t get my license because my permit expired but at least I can
drive now (not really until I get my license probably after
November tho). Also helping out with cooking family lunch/dinner
was fun at first, now it’s more like a responsibility but it’s ok.
Some nutella puff pastries and Gulab Jamun. Yum :D
6. Scrapbooking
Me and Reema started scrapbooking some of our drawings and family
pictures. We probably won’t finish it for a while, but it’s
relaxing and also rewarding.
Snippets from a family scrapbook!
7. Academically
I did two summer classes (Partial Differential Equation Analysis
and Organic Chemistry). I worked my first real job too, and it was
a really good experience! My boss was super nice and I definitely
learnt a lot more about biotech.