Merry Christmas! 2021 went by so fast that I completely neglected this blog for half the year, haha. Here’s some stuff I did this past year (aside from school, which took up like 150% of my time)!
Books
My Reading Challenge on Goodreads was to read 30 books. I’ve met that goal (almost – I’m on my last book right now), although I included short stories and smaller booklets in that challenge. A list of full-length books I read this year, excluding short stories/booklets:
- Trading in Danger by Elizabeth Moon
- Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
- Marque and Reprisal by Elizabeth Moon
- Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater
- The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater (reread)
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Winter Hours by Mary Oliver
- The Swan by Mary Oliver
- The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Upstream by Mary Oliver
- How to Be More Tree by Liz Marvin
- An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo
- The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
- Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
- Fences by August Wilson
- The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Red Bird by Mary Oliver
- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
- Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
- Owls and Other Fantasies by Mary Oliver
- Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong (currently reading)
- NANA vol. 1 by Ai Yazawa (currently reading)
Projects
- Notion School Dashboard Template
- Bin Tags, an order tracking system I wrote for my CS Honors Project.
- DIY Light/Humidity sensor using Adafruit boards, for my plants, still a work-in-progress :P (I worked on this a lot during break before starting Summer classes).
Other Random Stats
- Birds identified:
45 - Number of minutes listening to music on Spotify:
27,247 - Number of minutes learning languages on Duolingo:
1,356