2021.

Internships, zoom university, Seattle, and hot sauce

2021 was a pretty eventful year for me with many many firsts.

I had my first “big-kid” internships, attended a huge chunk of university online, stayed in a new city for the summer, moved into my first apartment, started eating kale, and learned how to cook.

🏆 Big Wins

• Took a gap (spring) quarter to intern as a software engineer at Tesla from January - April

• Re-elected as president of my baby, Women in Computing @ UCR

• Raised 1.5 million dollars from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for the Bourns College of Engineering to support women computer science students at UCR

• Interned as a software engineer and product manager at Microsoft from June - September

• Guest lectured over 300 students in ENGR101

• Started my junior year synchronously at UCR

• Saw my Microsoft intern project get shipped 🚀 check it out here: AKS support for WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) workloads

🌱 New Habits & Experiences

• Got into podcasts, especially HIBT and the Jay Shetty one

• Rekindled my love for blogging on this platform, love ya Substack

• Climbed Mission Peak in the East Bay

• Moved to Seattle for the summer

• Took up film photography on a 35mm film camera

• Went to my first comedy show at the Masonic where I saw Hasan Minhaj

• Got bangs and long layers and felt like Matilda Djerf for 2 months

💅🏼 Material Girllllll

Favorite things from the year — not sponsored but I wish :///

• Ultralip in Villa by Glossier

• FigJam for study groups by Figma

• Peri-Peri sauce by Trader Joe’s

• Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

• Nanopuff Jacket by Patagonia

• The entire menu at Piroshky Piroshky in Pike Place Market

• My parents’ panini press

• RED (TV) by Taylor Swift

I kept this recap short and sweet because honestly, 2021 felt realllllly short to me so it felt fitting. Looking forward to what’s come in 22!

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