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Those three words sum me up pretty well, but allow me to dive into them a little deeper.
I think a lot. I'm predisposed to it because I'm an introspective person by nature. I also really like figuring things out. The satisfaction of understanding cause and effect is what makes me tick. That's why I spend a lot of time analyzing and probing the world around me - car commercials, programming language designs, lyrics, and, in a very concrete sense, people's behaviors.
Coding is something I picked up a few years ago, but which I hadn't imagined to be in my orbit at all. I was technologically illiterate for most of my life. What drew me to coding was a pretty childish desire to make something flashy appear on a computer screen. I stumbled around with that for a while before I got interested in software design. Navigating the intersection of hardware capabilities and user experience is a tricky deal. I got a taste of that in high school when I took a class called Software Development. We made web-based applications in groups of four, which was fun and frustrating. I got to work backend, frontend, and as project manager, able to experience the woes and joys of all parties when it came to executing a design plan.
Writing is a long-time hobby of mine. I keep up with it by journaling and sometimes short stories.
Science Fiction because it is the only genre that deals with the future and how (whether) technology affects mankind.
Wordplay. I like Vladimir Nabokov's writing style for this reason.
Music. Right now, I'm into soundtracks from musicals.
Esoteric languages and programs. I'm still in the process of exploring the vast Esolangs Wiki. My favorite one is (dot) Box for its crafty use of line numbers.
I thought about presenting this section as a bulleted list, but that would turn it into something I don't like: a series of paragraph-length bullet points. That defeats the purpose of a list: to relay tidbits of information quickly.
I'm a student in the Macaulay Honors Program at Hunter College in New York City. Previously, I went to Stuyvesant High School.