Reflection on 2017 and Looking Forward to 2018
2017 was an interesting year. I graduated from Illinois with my B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, lived in California for three months to work at an industrial tech giant, and started graduate school in Electrical Engineering at Illinois. There was a lot of fun in the last year including a bunch of traveling. I really learned a lot in the last year, particularly in the last four months. The past four months also have been quite humbling; graduate school is no joke. There have been also a handful of times this past semester where I've told myself, "holy crap, I ran 26.2 miles in less than the running time of The Titanic ." That's where the running and non-running related events start to intersect. Aside from finishing my undergrad, working at Intel as a summer intern, and embarking on my quest for a PhD, I managed to run a half marathon in the Spring and three full marathons in the second half of the year. Concluding my running on the final day of 2017 wit