Just a little update on what I’ve been doing, reading, watching, and listening to…
Projects
- 50k for solar panels at Fordham University Rose Hill — halfway there!!!
- I am volunteering for this amazing NGO called Ubeci in Quito, Ecuador for 6 weeks
- Web dev freelancing
- potsklan.com improvements !! (check out my v ambitious v braggy projects page)
- Waking up at 6am everyday and practicing yoga and it’s been gr8 !
Books / Comics
- Harry Potter y la cámera secreta
- 1984
- Maybe it’s you
- El amor en los tiempos del cólera (Audible)
- Fluent Forever
- America Chavez
- Saga
Travels
- Ecuador ==> Quito, Otavalo, Cotopaxi, las islas galapagos, Mitad del Mundo, Baños, y Quilotoa
- Back in NYC July 8th !
Movies / Shows
- All about my mother
- La novia
- Buena vista social club
- Volver
- Julieta (sense a theme?)
- Locked up
What I’ve been planning for
- Travels
- End of July
- South Korea ==> Seoul
- China (13hr layover) ==> Beijing
- TBD in August
- End of July
- Full time job starting in September & finding an apartment
- Evaluating my productivity progress pre-graduation and deciding on a new system for post-grad life
- Figuring out a system for continuous self-learning and daily exercise while full-time working
- Finances saving
Podcasts
- Buenos dias America
- The Daily
- MindBodyGreen
- NPR Code Switch — A Prescription For “Racial Imposter Syndrome”
- Naval Ravikant on Reading, Happiness, Systems for Decision Making, Habits, Honesty and More !!!
- A Good Walk Spoiled
Articles / What’s been on my mind / Videos
- Climate change / city pollution
- Straws
- Ecotourism
- NGOs
- Disposable water bottles (and how they’re sometimes unavoidable >.< )
- Lot’s of thinking time / journaling without consistent wifi access
- Wharton MBA grad Dante Pearson
- Horrific Death Of Teenager Just Latest In Venezuelan Political Violence
- The Triumph of ‘Wonder Woman’
- Girls Who Code founder: Brown girls can do ‘white guy things’
- My Ultimate Feminist Latinx Reading List
- 2,000 Entries, 5 Winning Essays: Catch Up on the Modern Love College Contest
- 4 Standout College Application Essays on Work, Money and Class
- Venezuela’s Dystopian Nightmare
- The Harmony That Keeps Trappist-1’s 7 Earth-size Worlds From Colliding
- A new book ranks the top 100 solutions to climate change. The results are surprising.
- The trouble with charity
- 14 OF THE BEST RESOURCES FOR BECOMING A MORE ETHICAL (AND EDUCATED) FASHION CONSUMER
- 10 Real People On What Finally Worked For Their Anxiety
- Venezuela: ¿votos o balas?
- Venezuela necesita una intervención internacional
- ¿Goldman Sachs intenta ganar dinero a costa de los venezolanos?
- The Millennial Obsession With Self-Care
- ‘Wonder Woman’ And The Power Of Watching A Woman Save The World
- How New York Is Turning Food Waste Into Compost and Gas
- Why whales are back in New York City
- The 25 Best Films of the 21st Century So Far
- ‘Racial Impostor Syndrome’: Here Are Your Stories
- ‘Wonder Woman’s Feminism Is Strong As Hell, But It’s Not Intersectional
Apps
- HostelWorld
- AnkiDroid — Spanish flashcards
- Stop, Breathe & Think
- Yoga Studio