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Berkeley + Davis Cubing Comps!

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 My last cubing competition was Oct 14 2023, So 2 years later, this past weekend i went on a little trip to 2 cubing competitions in 2 days. Both of these competitions had the 3x3 blindfolded event. I signed up for these comps in late September, not having any real successes under my belt and not knowing any of the 3x3 BLD algs. I knew some theory because I briefly tried learning it before giving up. So I basically gave myself a month to drill down 3x3 blindfolded. It's literally such a quintessential storybook of just setting myself an ambitious goal and then pushing myself to work for it. Friday - Berkeley At around noon I drive over to Berkeley before picking up my friend Ashwin who took the Amtrack from Davis to Berkeley. Then we met up with Allen at this LanZhou noodle place by his apartment which was pretty good. I like the city LanZhou cuz its kinda close to inner mongolia and its an interesting city ive seen a couple of videos its kinda like a desert city but also super urb...

year 2, spring quarter UCSC

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  freshmen, fall freshmen, winter freshmen, spring sophomore, fall sophomore, winter I'm officially halfway 2/3 done with college and I'm writing this post a china-trip + week-into-internship after the quarter ended. Let's reflect over quarter 6 out of 9 presuming that im graduating in 3 years. Honestly I'm porb not gonna write much cuz idk what to write about.  Living off-campus Not much new news to talk about. I went on a lot of runs like 2x a week sometimes more this quarter and rly enjoyed the lsat months living here so close to the ocean. Oh yea I moved out in the last week as we are gonna switch to some apartments in capitola for next year. My new place is pretty nice, I'm probably gonna have a single, its fairly spacious, the rent is insanely cheap, but its so far away. I'm pretty scared for next year living so far away but I will have a car which helps but living in capitola which is just straight up isolated in a city away from campus will be an experie...