Miscellaneous

Fun Facts

  • Outside CS, I like to play the viola, play tennis, sing, and bake! I am also a big fan of dogs. I enjoy listening to Official HIGE DANdism, Ado, and NOMELON NOLEMON. I am currently reading Newcomer by Keigo Higashino.
  • I am a member of the wonderful Ithaca Community Orchestra where I've played the viola, the triangle, the güiro, and tom-toms!
  • My undergrad thesis in Music was written about Johann Nepomuk Hummel, a composer contemporary of Beethoven, and his role in cultivating the improvisatory Fantasie and Potpourri musical genres. You can read it here.
  • A performance that I did with some amazing people was featured in a video on Swarthmore's youtube channel!
    • The full first movement is featured here, accompanied by a rare publically available picture of me playing a musical instrument.
  • I have perfect pitch! This means that I can identify musical notes without any references.
  • If you take the first letter off of my last name, it becomes an element of a nonregular language - the language of palindromes!

Translations

Sometimes I put my bilinguality to test by translating my favorite songs.
  • 破顔 (Hagan - Breaking into a smile) by Official髭男dism
    A song about appreciating the lives of the people you encounter.