Jaehyeong Lee
jaehyeong.lee@gmail.com
Currently, I am an 18 year old student. I am part of the graduating class of 2017 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduated from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. My majors are Physics and Math, and I will be applying to medical school to fulfill my dream of being a doctor to help people. My hobbies include reading books, dancing, playing chess, Sudoku and Go, writing poetry and playing music. I enjoy conducting experiments in my free time, either with society or with chemicals and materials. Research is dull, but experimenting and data analyzing is the most fun thing in the world! It's like giving a six year old a sandbox, some shovels and buckets. Except sometimes the sand explodes, the shovels are 300 degrees Celsius and the buckets are made of acid/base resistant plastic or tempered glass. Ask me stuff about clever math, complex systems, semiconductors and solar cells, electrolysis systems, biomimicry and sociology. I'm not massively interested in many kinds of literature - I have very specific taste in that field. Outside of academics and science, which already consumes the majority of my life, I enjoy cooking, taking walks and posting on Quora.
I am also perpetually content with life. I am also not a hypocrite. I am also neither a liar nor a cheater. I try to do what is most reasonable and altruistic, and this ends up with many disappointed faces; however, what I do is for people's individual happiness. With my limited resources, I do my best. It's the most anyone could ask of anyone else, including themselves.
Honesty is scarce, so I'll keep my promises and do what I say. I have since second grade.
I am also perpetually content with life. I am also not a hypocrite. I am also neither a liar nor a cheater. I try to do what is most reasonable and altruistic, and this ends up with many disappointed faces; however, what I do is for people's individual happiness. With my limited resources, I do my best. It's the most anyone could ask of anyone else, including themselves.
Honesty is scarce, so I'll keep my promises and do what I say. I have since second grade.
Matt Litzsinger
I am currently a freshman at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, planning to double major in Computer Science and Music Composition. I graduated from the NC School of Science and Mathematics in Durham, NC in 2013. I also am very passionate about instrumental music. I play trombone, piano, and euphonium, and hope to extend this range of instruments in the future. You will probably see multiple topics or posts about music in the future - so stay tuned. I am extremely curious and interested in learning - school and classes have always been interesting to me. I have been newly introduced, through classes, to programming and composing, which I hope to explore. I am working on a piece for wind ensemble and have also composed using SunVox for a game I created in my Computer Science class.
I am interested in a wide variety of things:
I am interested in a wide variety of things:
- music
- composing
- math
- science
- philosophy
- psychology
- neuroscience
- programming
- anatomy & physiology, medicine
I tend to stay really busy with school work and various
music activities. I will expound upon my philosophy behind this in the future. I have been involved with school orchestras, community
orchestras, school bands, marching band, and most recently, Drum Corps (DCA -
Carolina Gold).
In addition, my personality, according to the 16 Jungian
personalities, is ISFJ. I am Introverted, Sensing, Feeling, and Judging - my
most dominant characteristic is my introversion, which fuels my passion for music as a
form of expression and also guides how I interact with others and form friendship. I
love forming small groups so that everyone can be heard and appreciated; this allows for some
really deep conversations, which is what I seek out of a friendship. In these friendships, I
do not tend to speak much, but instead like listening.
Jesse Wu
j95wu@yahoo.com
I am a first year student in the Cornell University College of Engineering majoring in Operations Research and Engineering. I went to the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics for high school (c/o '13). I am most interested in the use of mathematics in real life. Formally, this is called applied mathematics. I have the view that all subjects are connected. I don't view English and Mathematics as opposite sides of a "spectrum" because I see the "spectrum" as more of a complete graph. For those not familiar with graph theory, this mean that I view the subjects as each connected to one another. This may be reductionist and while I still haven't come up with the specifics of this graph, I think it exists, allowing for inter-discipline anywhere. This goes back to my interest in using mathematics because I think we can use mathematics in anything. As a result, I value learning about other subjects because learning about them allows math to be better applied to them. However, let me remove myself from being too math-centered to say that I also enjoy other subjects for the sake of themselves as well.
That is only the case, though, if I am intrinsically motivated to study these other subjects. This means learning for the sake of learning, not to get a good grade, pass a test, or anything like that. In addition, I'm found that I pretty much start liking any subject when I start looking into it. Here are my current interests other than mathematics: music (I play the clarinet and plan to do Wind Ensemble or Symphony and Marching Band in college; also interested in analyzing music, what makes good music good, and maybe making music through mathematical processes), astronomy (space exploration is a huge result of this), physics (how the universe works), chemistry (how matter is composed and how it interacts with each other), big picture biology (ex: evolution as opposed to anatomy), engineering (designing anything for a purpose and not necessarily material things; also processes and systems, which is kind of what my major is about; I kind of think engineering schools emphasize materials too much these days), computer science (allows us to do many things much quickly), gaming (what makes a good game as well as obviously playing them), economics (how humans run their civilizations), psychology (how humans work from within and interact with other humans and external objects), irrational behavior (props to Dan Ariely), morality (concerning the hard questions; this may be where mathematics becomes unapplicable), philosophy (thinking about thinking including the debate on religion), literature (reading fiction is quite fun, especially getting into the characters and seeing character development), history (about everything else; right now I'm reading a history of mathematics, which may help me get a greater appreciation of my main interest), and the future (ties in with space exploration but also includes other inventions and how humans will evolve). For each of these subjects, I have methods of delving into each of them. Some of these are reading (books, articles), the Internet (Wikipedia, Khan Academy, Coursera, Udacity, edX, other sites), and talking with others who are interested in them as well. I hope this blog and the podcasts help me look more into these interests as well as improve my communication skills.
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