Year: 2026
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Wow has it been six years already! If you’ve just recently subscribed to my blog, you may not know that I have started this domain while I was locked down in my apartment during the pandemic. Check my first blog post here. Many of us probably have started many things back then, like how I…
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So I just had my first week as a PhD student and I was way too obvious with how overwhelmed I was. Somewhere between asking about deadlines and milestones that did not exist yet, a colleague told me I was thinking about the ‘traditional PhD.’ Well, what is the ‘traditional PhD?’ It’s about having a…
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Back in 2019, I found myself talking with a conference attendee’s PhD supervisor from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, who was then trying to convince me to pursue a PhD, saying it would push me to become someone I never thought I am capable of being. At the time, the idea of pursuing PhD…
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via GIPHY The trouble begins when people confuse understanding something with endorsing it. This is the intellectual equivalent of refusing to learn what poison looks like because poisoning people is wrong. From This Is How To Live A Good Life: 5 Secrets From Ancient Wisdom I was too naïve to understand the faces of power.…
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I am still two weeks away from the official program start, but the gears are already rolling for me. I came to Canada with only the textbook knowledge of agrivoltaics and the courage to start from the basics as I build my research career. Meanwhile, I am honored to be part of the Free Appropriate…
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It started with a list There was a time in my life when bucket lists were a thing. In 2011, while I was still a first-year college student, filled with hopes and dreams of what I could become, I wrote a list. And in that list, you can read about the things I want to…