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-title: Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholars essay (denied) 
+title: Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholars essay (denied)
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   - writing
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-description: My "connect the dots" essay for Stanford's KHS program (denied).
+description:
+  My "connect the dots" essay for Stanford's KHS program
+  (denied).
 ---
 
-**Connect the dots. How have the influences in your life shaped you?**
-
-Composer Gustav Mahler lived a difficult life troubled by tragedy, an unrooted identity as a
-19th-century European Jew, and unceasing struggles with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia; it
-was as if the “voices of two different people” lived inside the one Mahler. In his penultimate work
-“Das Lied von Der Erde” (“The Song of the Earth”), we hear these dueling voices guide us from a
-joyous drinking song through a melancholy meditation on solitude as we end in the lengthy epic
-“Der Abschied” (“The Farewell”). Here Mahler places us in a mystical trance as the orchestra
-carries a peaceful C6/9 chord into silence. In these final moments, we experience calm as if
-mirroring the same inner peace Mahler found in musical expression.
-That C6/9 chord was the last one I played as an orchestral violist on a professional stage. After a
-tumultuous high school journey defined by my own struggles with identity and academic failure, I
-found our performance of Mahler to be a fitting bookend to that chapter of my life. My decade of
-musical training gave me a reverence for artistic expression. Axiomatically, art is human-centered
-design in its purest form.
+**Connect the dots. How have the influences in your life
+shaped you?**
+
+Composer Gustav Mahler lived a difficult life troubled by
+tragedy, an unrooted identity as a 19th-century European
+Jew, and unceasing struggles with bipolar disorder and
+schizophrenia; it was as if the “voices of two different
+people” lived inside the one Mahler. In his penultimate work
+“Das Lied von Der Erde” (“The Song of the Earth”), we hear
+these dueling voices guide us from a joyous drinking song
+through a melancholy meditation on solitude as we end in the
+lengthy epic “Der Abschied” (“The Farewell”). Here Mahler
+places us in a mystical trance as the orchestra carries a
+peaceful C6/9 chord into silence. In these final moments, we
+experience calm as if mirroring the same inner peace Mahler
+found in musical expression. That C6/9 chord was the last
+one I played as an orchestral violist on a professional
+stage. After a tumultuous high school journey defined by my
+own struggles with identity and academic failure, I found
+our performance of Mahler to be a fitting bookend to that
+chapter of my life. My decade of musical training gave me a
+reverence for artistic expression. Axiomatically, art is
+human-centered design in its purest form.
 
 \~\~\~
 
-A SpaceX rocket requires parts from thousands of suppliers. Stuart is one of the purchasing
-analysts who tackle this logistical challenge. Typically, he’d have to spend all day copy-pasting
-dozens of documents into our company’s database. When I demonstrated my intern project to the
-team, Stuart’s eyes lit up with joy as he saw an email automatically processed and recorded. We
-freed Stuart from 30 hours/week of clerical work allowing him to put his analytical mind to work.
-SpaceX was my first peek into how human-centered design can empower others to do more.
-I’ve experienced time and again that caring about other folks’ needs and concerns is the key to
-being truly useful to other people. This empathetic approach is why I ground every technical
-discussion in the user experience. It’s seeing the delight in another’s eyes that brings energy to my
-life. Human-centered design is the strongest way to help others.
+A SpaceX rocket requires parts from thousands of suppliers.
+Stuart is one of the purchasing analysts who tackle this
+logistical challenge. Typically, he’d have to spend all day
+copy-pasting dozens of documents into our company’s
+database. When I demonstrated my intern project to the team,
+Stuart’s eyes lit up with joy as he saw an email
+automatically processed and recorded. We freed Stuart from
+30 hours/week of clerical work allowing him to put his
+analytical mind to work. SpaceX was my first peek into how
+human-centered design can empower others to do more. I’ve
+experienced time and again that caring about other folks’
+needs and concerns is the key to being truly useful to other
+people. This empathetic approach is why I ground every
+technical discussion in the user experience. It’s seeing the
+delight in another’s eyes that brings energy to my life.
+Human-centered design is the strongest way to help others.
 
 \~\~\~
 
-When my sister turned around to face me, I saw Kamala Harris’ eyes staring back at me instead.
-We were watching the news together as Senator Harris gave her acceptance speech for the Vice
-Presidential nomination. My sister, 10 years my junior, shares similar facial features as the Senator.
-I was surprised that I had confused the person I had grown up with for a politician on TV. I let that
-disconnance sit in me for a moment. I had been running away from my identity as an
-Indian-American my whole life. Now, it felt like the last puzzle piece of my identity was beginning
-to fall into place. When I saw my sister and myself in Kamala Harris, I finally understood what many Black Americans saw in Barack Obama. I finally realized what “diversity” is all about: empowering
-everyone to feel like they belong in their community. To my sister I have an obligation to take my
-skills in human-centered design one step further by building and reforming the institutions that
+When my sister turned around to face me, I saw Kamala
+Harris’ eyes staring back at me instead. We were watching
+the news together as Senator Harris gave her acceptance
+speech for the Vice Presidential nomination. My sister, 10
+years my junior, shares similar facial features as the
+Senator. I was surprised that I had confused the person I
+had grown up with for a politician on TV. I let that
+disconnance sit in me for a moment. I had been running away
+from my identity as an Indian-American my whole life. Now,
+it felt like the last puzzle piece of my identity was
+beginning to fall into place. When I saw my sister and
+myself in Kamala Harris, I finally understood what many
+Black Americans saw in Barack Obama. I finally realized what
+“diversity” is all about: empowering everyone to feel like
+they belong in their community. To my sister I have an
+obligation to take my skills in human-centered design one
+step further by building and reforming the institutions that
 govern our life.
 
-~~~
+```
 
 I listened to Mahler the night after Harris’ acceptance speech. After another difficult journey
 through college, I felt the resolution in my heart that I had first felt five years ago on stage. I wrote
 to my closest friend: “This evening is the first time I felt like I really belong in this country. I didn’t
 realize how important it is to see yourself in your leaders.”
+```

_tweets/332.md

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+title:
+  My passion for humancomputer interaction HCI research
+  stems f...
 layout: tweet
 num: 332
 date: 2026-01-01
 ---
 
-My passion for human-computer interaction (HCI) research stems from such experiences with wearable computers and augmented reality (AR). Now, as AI continues to grow in impact and scale, I want to bring AI closer to the human experience where I believe it can have an unambiguously positive impact in our lives. I aim to create virtual characters and artificially-intelligent agents that live with humans, learn how to work with humans, and enable us to achieve our highest ambitions. With my research work, I aim to take the world one step closer to blurring the lines between the physical and digital worlds.
+My passion for human-computer interaction (HCI) research
+stems from such experiences with wearable computers and
+augmented reality (AR). Now, as AI continues to grow in
+impact and scale, I want to bring AI closer to the human
+experience where I believe it can have an unambiguously
+positive impact in our lives. I aim to create virtual
+characters and artificially-intelligent agents that live
+with humans, learn how to work with humans, and enable us to
+achieve our highest ambitions. With my research work, I aim
+to take the world one step closer to blurring the lines
+between the physical and digital worlds.

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