Collection of old WordPress blogs
Old blog archive · 2024–2025
From starting my first blog to moving, studying, and application season: fragments of life from my old WordPress blog, written in 2024 and 2025.
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Physics
My first published paper!
Celebrating my first published paper and a new Google Scholar page—a small contribution and a fresh start.
Use the QE(Quantum Espresso) on WSL
A personal record of installing Quantum ESPRESSO on Windows with WSL, connecting VS Code, and trying the supplied test suites.
life
Some random thoughts 7
Finding a summer rhythm for research
With fewer distractions, summer is a good time to focus on learning and thinking. A note on building research habits and keeping up momentum.
Some random thoughts 6
Living, loving, and creating with all my strength
Snow on the way to dinner brought some recent thoughts into focus: stepping outside the comfort of taking things casually, bringing more passion to living, loving, and creating.
About love
Love amplifies sorrow, and happiness too. On the constructive force love brings, and feelings that words cannot quite hold.
Some random thoughts 5
Longing in the snow and looking back on the semester
Christmas snow, missing someone across the Pacific, and a few thoughts on the rhythm of studying and living this semester.
New life
As Thanksgiving approaches, quiet rainy nights and the joy of waking reveal a new stage of life, and new lessons in courage, honesty, and responsibility.
About loneliness
In the two minutes it took to heat dinner, I recognized the loneliness behind a feeling of emptiness: a moment of learning to connect outward and find peace within.
Some random thoughts 4
A cold night in a foreign country
A short note after stepping off a bus into a freezing night, on leaving home, loneliness, and losing a sense of control over life.
Thoughts on modernity: a critique
When grand narratives no longer give life meaning, how does an individual face the void? Starting from the perplexities of modernity, an attempt to find a place for life to rest.
Some random thoughts 3
Parting, home, and a sense of belonging
Leaving a village for a wider world also means parting again and again. Thoughts on home, belonging, and searching for an invariant in friendship and love.
Some random thoughts2
Finding a rhythm in a new semester
Two weeks into the semester, classes, teaching, seminars, and experiments are finding a rhythm. A small record of feeling settled and looking ahead.
Some random thoughts 1
Autumn winds, homesickness, and an uncertain future
A week into the semester, a note on homesickness amid everyday little things, an uncertain future, and the autumn evening breeze.