4/20/25 feeling hopecore

I've made it out of midterms - feeling the calm before the storm of finals. Taking the chance to make good progress on my research, hopefully I will have enough to share with you all soon - its about a new type of control rod for high temp gas cooled reactors. Sick as hell if you ask me.

check out the guys who made the music - some of my favorite music in the madison scene & I'm super excited for them to put more stuff out

see past updates

04/14/2025

My DS is dying. It stopped booting, the blue light illuminating for a second before shutting off again. The issue stops after removing the wifi card, staying on but not booting as expected when the wifi card is out. After internet research the conclusion I've drawn is either a ribbon cable has come loose or a component has burnt out - the latter of which I have low hopes of repairing. The DS is currently laid out on the table, completly dissasembled. If, when reasembeled, it still wont boot, I fear it may never boot again.

If you want to see the last project I did with it, read my article on using it as an e-reader.

Despite the bad news, it is a beautiful day. I hope all reading this are well.

03/29/2025

I'm back from spring break - had a good time. Saw my pets, toured my friend from DC around the Twin Cities, saw my friends, went urbexing, went to shows. I got a bridge and septum piercing on Thursday, really glad with how they turned out. The bridge is a little crooked - I remember when I first discovered my ear piercings were uneven, I was so stressed. But since since then I've realised its not that deep. My face is uneven, my body too, why shouldn't my piercings. I got complimented on them by a kid in my dorm just now. I have assumed most people on my floor don't like me, after an encounter with a drunken neighbor where he asked my why I always glared at him. I don't know what gave him that impression, maybe my eyeliner or my deepset eyes, but it gave me the impression everyone here thought that. Maybe I should talk to more people, compliment them.

03/22/2025

Spring break has started, campus is pretty empty. I go home tomorrow. Cleaned my room, organised my stuff, cleared my files - feels good but have run out of things to do. I went geocashing yesterday, now that its good biking weather. We found six(!) and visited a very nice record shop we saw along the way. Brought me back to biking around highland as a kid with my friends. When I'm back home I hope to homebrew my Nintendo DSI to make it an e-reader - I'll make a post about it if I am successful. Excited to make my march photolog post too.

March 2025 - My first conference!

I just bought my tickets to Albuquerque for the ANS student conference! I'm very excited to be going to my first conference, and even more my first nuclear conference. The Trinity site tour is going to be sick, and while I doubt I'll understand much, I bet the technical presentations will be sick as well. I'm also very excited for the opportunity to see a new city, I love seeing big cities and hopefully I'll get more opportunities like this to see more.

If anybody sees me there you should totaly say hello. I might be difficult to spot in the sea of business formal though.

Anyway, I hope yall are liking the visual updates I'm making to the site - I think its turning out awesome!

January 2025, the year of reading - or so I hope

Finally the new year! Lots to look forward to, lots to learn, and hopefully, lots to read.

In an attempt to ween of the time I spend online (more specifically, doomscrolling), I have taken up reading! Expect some book reviews and discussions on my articles page, as I hopefully get to write about some of the things I read.

Of course, I still am facing the brunt of my studies, so I may not have the time I once did. But I always hope to find the time to come back and update this place.

Until I see you again, happy new year! <3