About Me

Hey, I’m Kevin! I’m from Dallas and a junior at MIT. Here are some things about me:

• I really like doggos. I have one of those ubiquitous small white rat dogs. His name is Hooshabang, and he’s a mean little guy. He sits on the ground whenever another dog or human walks by to try to ambush them. He only has one other dog “friend,” and whenever the dog has a sleepover at our house, Hooshabang will push him under the bed and block his exit out. Also, whenever the other dog tries to climb up the stairs, my dog will race to the stair right above him and lie down, so the dog can’t get up the stairs. Here’s a picture:

• I really like nature and stargazing (the Perseid meteor shower is coming up which I’m incredibly excited for!) My favorite place in Boston is Mount Auburn cemetery of which I’m a very frequent visitor.

• I also like being active! I enjoy running, climbing, skating, swimming, dance, and tennis, but I love to do all sorts of things that involve my body. Here’s a climb from a while ago I was proud of:

• Recently I’ve been trying to learn more about the physical world! Things like machining, FPGAs, and physics. Both from the engineering side, like the ability to make things that feel like magic to me, like drones and other things that fly, and the science side, like understanding the entire stack of how things work, from the atoms to the user interfaces. Something I hope to contribute to is HCI in the physical world!

• I love history, especially Chinese history. One of my favorite stories from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is when Zhu-Ge-Liang, the wizard-genius of the story, defeating Zhou Yu, the top general from an enemy kingdom, by rage-baiting him three times so hard that he died from anger.

• I also enjoy writing! I write a newsletter to friends about my life (because obviously the epitome of humility is writing about myself), and also fictional short stories or novellas. The most recent one I wrote was about a girl who grew up with a single mother and whose Dad moved to China to chase his dreams, and how that upbringing has slowly shifted her views on ambition over time as she goes to college and sees the world. Before that, I wrote a story about a girl who possesses a one-time-use camera with magical abilities, but once all of the shots are taken, the girl disappears, and how her belief in sacrificing herself for others shapes how she uses the camera. There’s also a pretty dark one I want to write about an immigrant to the United States and the hopelessness of the American dream.

• I enjoy games and puzzles. Some of my favorites are: Dance Dance Revolution, Just Dance, Baba is You, Road to Empress, puzzle hunts of any kind, and I probably have a thousand hours on VALORANT, oops.

• I’m generally interested in spirituality and all sorts of religions—I think there’s a ton of wisdom in each. I’m going to go on a Vipassana retreat later this month, which I’m excited and terrified for!

• I tend to have a pretty kid-like personality; I laugh a lot and say a lot of silly things. People generally find me optimistic and open, and also easy to be vulnerable with. That being said, I also occasionally get overwhelmed by life, and then I can get a bit judgy or insecure—this is something I’m owning up to and working through!

• I’m a fairly emotional person. I was very in-my-head for most of my life, but last winter I committed to practicing crying and those were some of the most beautiful moments in my life. Now, I cry a lot, almost always when I feel really moved or grateful—and I really enjoy things that inspire emotional experiences.

• Here are some things I plan on spending at least ten hours doing over the next semester:

  • Puzzles

  • Building an MRI

  • Traveling with my parents

  • Learning to draw

  • Learning physics

  • Learning makeup design >.<

  • Learning to fire-spin

  • Learning to machine

  • Doing cool things with friends! I’ve wanted to start a writing club for seniors in Boston for a while now, but the timing has just never worked out. I hope to do it this semester.

  • Learning to cook interesting things

  • Playing violin

  • Climbing

  • Swimming

  • Skating

  • Playing go

  • Writing fiction