A grandmaster I’ll never be
I started playing chess when I was six. I took private lessons and competed at the national level, only to grow up and realize that this wasn’t what I wanted to do with my life. So...
In the margins.
Things I’m thinking through. Nothing here needs to be the last word. Pick a note for me
AI and Education
I recently came across this report from MIT’s ad hoc committee on AI use. AI feels like the elephant in every room now, and the report considers what it means for teaching, learnin...
My first open problem
In the winter of 2026, I started an undergraduate research assistantship (URA) with Prof. Elena Grigorescu. I began thinking about Hierholzer’s algorithm, a classical algorithm for...
The Godfather at Mel’s diner
A while back, I met a group of upper years through a friend and joined them to study in DP. We stayed until it got dark, and when everyone decided to get dinner, I went along. We e...
Giving back to the community
In Ontario, you need forty hours of volunteering to earn your high school diploma. I resisted that requirement at first. But as I grew older, I began to understand the importance o...
A little organized chaos
I remember Blake Madill introducing us to chaos theory in MATH 147. What stayed with me was the coexistence of structure and unpredictability: tiny differences in where you begin c...
“To be human is to have a collection of memories that tells you who you are and how you got there.”Rosecrans Baldwin