January 26, In broad strokes, my life in is not so different from my life in I live in Somerville with my wife, whom I have lived with since January , and whom I have dated since October And yet, in the last four years, I graduated from MIT, twice. I got engaged and then married. I got a dog. I won a big novelty check in a competition. I took four classes, and had one UROP, and hung out with my roommates and my girlfriend.
Several years later, they essentially returned the favor by picking up our cake from the Flour commercial kitchen in Boston and driving it to our venue. As spring bled into summer, I graduated online. That first year of grad school, I was funded to work on data validation for TROPICS, a weather satellite, and on efficiently co-locating data from different types of satellites. I also continued my UROP work on guidance, navigation, and control for BeaverCube, a student-built magnetically actuated satellite.
I also took classes. It was a very busy year. In June , my now-wife proposed while we were canoeing on Lake Washington on a very sunny day.
I counter-proposed in August, at a picnic at a sculpture garden in Massachusetts. Even though we had already been engaged for months and she knew exactly what was happening, I was incredibly nervous β I wanted everything to be perfect. I kept waiting for a private moment, which never came because we were at a popular picnic spot on a sunny weekend day, so I eventually gave up and got down on one knee in front of a few random people.
Even more embarrassingly, after hyping up the proposal for weeks, I forgot my entire speech. Luckily, she still said yes, and by the time we got married in , my semi-botched proposal was just a sweet and funny memory. He loves food, going outside, eating random stuff off the sidewalk, playing fetch, and interrupting Zoom meetings.
