I absolutely love Neill deGrasse Tyson’s explanation of how scary and impossible learning can feel at first, yet, as long as you desire so strongly to get where you are meant to go and put in the work, you can’t help but fall in love with learning and desire more. Watch his recounting of learning Calculus in high school.

Focus Now

• PCB Design
• Robotics Controls

Blogroll

• MITERS
  • Ben Katz
  • Dane Kouttron
• 新车间 (XinCheJian)
  • Nelson
  • Changbai
  • Jiji
  • Robin
  • Mitch Altman: inventor of TV-B-Gone®, cofounder of Noisebridge, CEO of Cornfield Electronics
• Inspiration
  • Tim Urban: Wait But Why

YouTube Channels

• Engineering Hacks
  • AppliedScience
  • BenNBuilds: former SpaceX engineer
  • Mark Rober: former NASA engineer, squirrel maze
  • SuperfastMatt: former Tesla engineer converting 1950s Jaguar to electric
  • BPS.space: flight controllers, circuit boards for rockets, landing a model rocket
  • Adam Savage’s Tested: more mythbusting
  • Simone Giertz: queen of shitty robots and truckla
  • Stuff made here: former Formlabs engineer
  • Real Engineering, civil and aviation
  • Rich Rebuilds: reviving teslas
  • VSauce
  • Household Hacker
  • Peter Sripol
• Engineering News & Reviews
  • Veritasium
  • SmarterEveryDay
  • Vox: like a discovery channel on youtube
  • Anastasia In Tech
  • Domain of Science: broad overviews of entire scientific fields
  • Practical Engineering
  • Technology Connections
• Math
  • 3Blue1Brown
  • Numberphile
  • Vihart: og math youtuber
  • George Hart: make math objects irl
• Controls
  • Steve Brunton: control bootcamp, intro data science, Fourier Analysis
  • Brian Douglas: control lectures, bode plots, root locus
    • Engineering Media LLC
• Physics
  • MinutePhysics
  • Two minute papers: what a time to be alive!
  • Physics Girl
  • Sabine Hossenfelder: Science without the gobbledygook
  • PBS Space Time
  • Kurzgesagt
  • Feynman Lectures
    • Recordings
    • Notes
• Electrical
  • Ben Eater: world’s worst graphics card, how VGA ports work
  • Electroboom: teaching EE through masochism
  • GreatScott: electronics, tesla coil, nixie tube clock
• Computers
  • NetworkChuck: all things Linux, NAS, email server, etc.
• Chemistry
  • NileRed, NileBlue
  • NightHawkInLight: infrared cooling paint
  • Cody’sLab
• Biology
  • Acapella Science
  • TheBrainScoop
• Climate
  • ClimateTown
  • JustHaveAThink
• General
  • CrashCourse
  • CGP Grey
• Chinese (中文)
  • Informal Talks (非正式会谈): young adults from around the world discussing life peculiarities in Chinese

Resources

• Computers
  • Teach Yourself Computer Science: full on 1500 hours curriculum
  • W3schools: learn webdev
  • Exercism: a low bar python practice challenge tutorial structure. 
  • LeetCode: practice problems and similar coding interview challenge levels for big software companies

Life-Long Learning History

• Now
  • 2.096 - Modeling and Simulation
  • 2.151 - Advanced Control Systems
  • 2.174 - Compliant Mechanisms
  • 15.000 - Managerial Economics
• 2018 - 2021
  • Chinese, HSK 1 - 5
  • VIM Adventures

Formal Curriculums

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 2A-6, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in Controls, Instrumentation, and Robotics

GPA of 3.6/5.0

• 2016
  • 2.013 - Engineering Systems Design
  • 2.014 - Engineering Systems Build
  • 2.05 - Thermodynamics
  • 2.051 - Heat Transfer
  • 2.678 - Intro Electronics
  • 2.994 - Truck Thesis
  • 17.181 - Sustainability
  • STS.025J - Industrial Revolution
  • STS.087 - Biography
• 2015
  • 2.007 - Design & Manufacturing I
  • 2.12 - Intro to Robotics
  • 2.671 - Measurement & Instrumentation
  • 6.131 - Power Electronics
  • 6.141 - Robotics & Systems I
  • 21F.401 - Deutsch I
  • 21F.402 - Deutsch II
• 2014
  • 2.001 - Mechanics I
  • 2.003 - Dynamics & Control I
  • 2.004 - Dynamics & Control II
  • 2.06 - Fluid Mechanics
  • 2.086 - Numerical Computation
  • 4.211J - Future City
  • 6.01 - Intro to EECS
  • 6.002 - Circuits & Electronics
  • 6.007 - Quantum & Electronics
  • 21W.773 - Sci-Fy Novel
• 2013
  • 3.091 - Solid State Chemistry
  • 6S.076 - Design, Blade Kotelly
  • 7.012X - Intro to Biology, Eric Lander
  • 8.01 - Physics Mechanics
  • 8.02 - Physics Electromagnetism
  • 9.00 - Intro to Brain & Cognition
  • 18.01 - Single Variable Calculus
  • 18.02 - Multivariable Calculus
  • 18.03 - Differential Equations
  • AS.100 - Air Force Officer Training
  • STS.010 - Neuroscience & Society

University of Alaska Fairbanks: Summer Programs

• Alaska Summer Research Academy (ASRA): attended 7 summers
• Summer Leadership Institute (SLI)
• NASA Goddard Research Center Internship: accepted, but unfortunately too young to get clearance at the time

Austin E. Lathrop High School: Engineering Track

Class of 2012 Valedictorian (1 of 194) GPA of 4.3/4.0

• 2012
  • AP English
  • AP Calculus
  • AP Computer Science
  • AP Statistics
  • AP US Government
  • Economics
  • Engineering Design & Development
  • Physics
• 2011
  • AP Biology
  • AP Composition
  • AP US History
  • Digital Electronics
  • Early American Literature
  • Philosophy
  • Pre-Calculus
  • Tennis
• 2010
  • Algebra II
  • AP European History
  • Chemistry
  • German II
  • Principles of Engineering
• 2009
  • Alaska Studies
  • Biology A & B
  • English 9 Honors
  • Geometry & Trigonometry
  • German I
  • Health
  • Intro to Engineering