Daily Blog
We're back! Took a break because I got sick, then felt guilty for taking the break so wanted to write a ton of blogs in one day summarizing all other days, then felt daunted by the magnitude of that task, which resulted in procrastinating the task for now a week and a half, which caused guilt to build and build.
Midterms over! CS went well (thanks Christian Ruiz for the quizlet). Finally more time to do cool stuff.
We're back… Friday was so dense that it wiped out my creative energy for days. Caught a 5:30 AM train to Boston, toured biotech labs, and met founders and researchers pushing the limits of longevity and cryonics.
Easy Ws, but replace easy with hard and Ws with i have no idea. Anyway, posts will get longer again, which is great. Going to Boston tomorrow to meet with some super cool people; I'll talk to yall about it then.
Calc grind continues, lesson of the day is to always check Canvas for extra resources.
Locked in on calc. Lesson of the day is that the strat to do well in math is to understand the derivations of every concept from first principles and I promise everything will become easy.
Brief one today because midterms are sucking the soul out of me. Woke up early to cram for my econ midterm at 11:35, went really well. Econ is such a cool subject because you are trying to use math to model human psychology.
Grinded econ til 3, about to take midterm, wish me luck. Lesson of the day is definitely dont do that.
Another short one today because I have an early train to catch tmrw (exciting stuff). Today was a relatively uneventful day, emphasis on relatively. I realize here that the days I consider mundane or boring are often more eventful than even my most action packed days in high school.
Short one today as it is absurdly late. I was Luigi, roommate was Mario, super fun time. Walking around campus while everyone was dressed however they pleased was fascinating; it felt like walking through a free play online game.
I am writing this from my bed while listening to the rainfall outside my window. Normally, this would be an immensely peaceful scene, but not today, as I have been bested by this natural phenomenon.
In econ, we often talk about opportunity cost like its some abstract magical concept that allows economic profits to go to 0 while accounting profits stay positive, but in reality, the concept governs the decisions we make on a daily basis. Case in point, ironically, today I decided to skip my econ lecture to meet with Sonith Sunku, one of the organizers of Z-fellows.
Shorter one today because I want to go to sleep. Started the day by meeting with Ammar Al Khouli, founder of Levers (YC S22). Ammar Al Khouli is a very special person.
I read (saw in a ig reel) that some of history's greatest figures would spend hours each day silently sitting in nature to try to spark creative ideas. So today, after rushing back from econ down science hill, I took a moment to appreciate the pretty fall colors outside my suite on old campus.
I'm Osama, a founder and a student at Yale. When people from back home in Jeddah ask me how Yale is, I often struggle to find an answer which truly explains how strange and beautiful my time here is.