Steven Shi

Radical Balancing

Man has it been a while since my last post (like an entire semester).  I can't believe I'm still a functioning human being.  Oddly enough, my first Junior semester in college has reflected my first Junior semester in high school, extremely challenging and pulling...

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Cool Things I've Done In College Thus Far: Part I

Firstly, I’d like to apologize for my lack of updates recently.  As many of you may guess, I’ve been more busy than our president (as my mom would describe it).  With that, I’d like to use this blog post as a recap of all the cool things I’ve done in my first two...

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Doing Fun Things

My past blog posts have consisted primarily of school, work, and stressful situations.  In realizing that all work and no play makes Steven a dull boy, I'm going to focus on writing about the fun I had over winter break. After my stressful final in my algorithms...

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Recovery From Failure

So yesterday, I had taken the hardest academic test of my life, my algorithms midterm. Maybe it was because I haven’t taken “hard” tests before or perhaps that it was because the test was simply hard.  Who knows, who cares; reflecting on the day, I certainly didn’t....

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The Start of A New Year

At the beginning of September, I came back to campus ready to start my Sophomore year.  Some people believe that the word “Sophomore” is a portmanteau of “sophos” and “moros”, wise and foolish respectively.  Ain’t that the truth.  I would like to think that I wasn’t...

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Just Another Week

Spring break the coveted week of the college experience.  For me, it was just another week.  I ended up going home for spring break back to NYC...hadn’t made any friends since I’d moved there...still didn’t feel much like home.  At the very least though, I had some...

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The Power to Choose

Swamped. That's how I feel right now.  My first late blog post... I was hoping it wouldn't have to come to this.  Basically for the past two weeks I've been trying to climb out of a self-burying grave. Even as I type, I can't stop thinking about my impending deadlines...

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Rest for the Weary

Let me start with this.  Break was amazing; granted Brown University has one of the longer winter breaks (mine is from December 13th to January 20th) but I feel like anything around a month is great.  Some people wish they could go back after the first week, that was...

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And Thus Ends Round 1

As I'm typing this, I've been home for about three days.  My finals started the first day (last friday) and I had three in a row to end on Sunday.  All my friends said I was lucky; they were all quite jealous.  At the time, it seemed like the worst thing in the world...

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Living In the Present

It often seems to be the case that everything we do is geared in thinking about our future (well maybe not “everything” but a lot of the important things).  We try to get good grades so we can get into college; we try to craft perfect applications so we can enter...

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