About every year, my online presence gets convoluted between multiple platforms that I am trying out, and with multiple projects that I am trying out each year. This is the third year in a row where I am cleaning up accounts, emails, and my online presence, and the first where I will be writing down about it as well.
Go out and create something. Put time and effort into it. Sometimes, you may find yourself to be in a rut that is difficult to come out of. But, do create something and put your soul and effort into it.
We are finally in a weird late stage capitialism point wherein we have successfully monetized everything, on a rolling basis. Mediocre products are sold at exorbitant pricing, and even our sanity and emotions are being taken away from us. Social media has monetized being famous, and gives an equal voice to everyone regardless of their qualifications or backgrounds. Your value is only based on ephemeral metrics and numbers, and the joy of creating has become transformed into a dread of meeting deadlines that fulfill sponsorship contracts.
$ ./status-update
This entry is going to be published in multiple
parts.
It's the process of looking back and into my
whole academic journey. It's gonna take a while to
complete, but I am enjoying the process of writing this.
Also moved to Boston, and plan to write all my thoughts
in the next couple of weeks.
Pls. read Part 1 first, then come back here.
Sophomore year of university: somehow things get both worse and better. I think the weirdest part to grasp, personally, was the new and unknown environment.
$ ./status-update
This entry is going to be published in multiple
parts.
It's the process of looking back and into my
whole academic journey. It's gonna take a while to
complete, but I am enjoying the process of writing this.
Also moving to Boston, which delays stuff.
So this is it, in the past month I graduated from my Undergraduate journey at UMass Amherst, and now I look forward to greater opportunities in life. I think for this newsletter, I'd like to take a step back and recount some good memories, what I learnt, and what I want to take forward in life as a UMass Amherst Alum.
I have decided that writing this newsletter every week was resulting in a content churn, which was essentially me writing a blog post for the sake of writing it. Hence, I am putting down some changes as to how I write this thing: i.e. I would write whenever I have quite a lot to say (in a meaningful way), while also making it such that I write at least once every month.