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It’s been an eventful year, as always. It was a sound wave of up and downs, and I don’t think I ever truly understood how much could happen within a short amount of time until this fall after starting school.

Things I did:

• Learned how to animate
• Attended eight musical events and saw twenty-five artists perform
• Helped complete a yearbook
• Became a pterosaur
• Visited the Instagram headquarters
• Traveled to India
• Spent a solid amount of time hanging out with fish and other marine life
• Flew on my own for the first time (to Portland!)
• Started writing for a couple magazines
• Moved away from home for the first time
• Figured out how to cook pasta in the microwave
• Got involved with a science publication, a radio station, and an aquarium at school
• Began liking chemistry
• Cut my hair short
• Strengthened old friendships & started new ones
• Grew.

Things I will do:

• Read at least two books a month
• Start writing creative fiction again (at least one story by the end of March!)
• Develop better exercise habits at school
• Learn how violins are made
• Fearlessly draw & paint on larger scales
• Write more on this blog
• Keep my room in a non-disaster state
• Take more pictures and videos
• Give my full energy to all I do
• Enjoy every second of it
• Grow.

de-LIGHT-ed with my new home

view from the Birch Aquarium

from Balboa Park

sea-space scape, a work in progress on my bedroom wall

unedited sunsets

“the cover of forbes 30 under 30, she’s a new developer who has a startup and is changing the game as a south asian woman bringing more diversity and taking down the white male monopoly of silicon valley!” -my dear friend Isha Patel

Huge thank you to everyone in my life for an absolutely rad year; I can’t wait to see what 2018 brings.