diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a8df64e..4b0babf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
# rdesh-site
Personal files for my website.
This website is built using Hugo and another minimalist theme.
+
+## Sync
+To sync with the server, use rsync -rtuv public/ rbdeshpande@rdesh.xyz:~/public/
diff --git a/content/Life_in_college.md b/content/Life_in_college.md
index 2ec6667..a0ee5ec 100644
--- a/content/Life_in_college.md
+++ b/content/Life_in_college.md
@@ -1,8 +1,53 @@
+++
date = '2025-02-26T23:06:56-08:00'
-draft = true
+draft = false
title = 'Life in college'
+++
-# Beginning
-Idk how to really
+# Disclaimer
+I want to preface this by saying I absolutely love it here.
+Probably nothing else would be different if I went to another college.
+That being said, I've learned a lot about my time here, and what I truly value.
+
+# The value of solitude
+Some might simply just call this loneliness.
+For some time, it did feel that way for me.
+Not that I didn't have people to see, but it was hard to make any sort of meaningful connection with people.
+I think eventually it came to a point where I was so frustrated of not making any meaningful contact that I sort of became a recluse, for a lack of a better term.
+
+However, it did get me thinking a lot.
+
+About my future, and what I wanted from it.
+
+About how I envisioned my future self and what steps I could take to get there.
+
+I do think it was good that I didn't have much external influence from other people.
+I've always thought of myself as aspiring to be more independent, and maybe that's a weakness.
+But I've always been stubborn in the sense that I try my hardest to improve my own life independent of other people.
+
+# Things I noticed
+Lots of people already want to get into a specific field.
+I know myself I've been looking into healthcare, but I'm also interested in research.
+Maybe I can combine the two later.
+
+This really isn't a problem, but I've always been indecisive, even back in high school.
+Most of my friends wanted to be investment bankers, or lawyers, or doctors, and tailored their extracurriculars and activities to achieve that.
+
+Meanwhile, I was more-or-less just scrambling trying to do everything that interested me.
+It's weird since I do want to try to get into a med school, but I also have interests in CS and more specifically developing FOSS software to help scientific endeavours.
+
+My love for FOSS caused me to set up this blog, and once I can figure out how to get the website working without people having to be on the UCLA vpn, I can do a lot more interesting things.
+Already I have a self-hosted [Gitea](https://git.rdesh.xyz/explore/repos) instance, as well as a Radicale instance.
+One of my interests once I get into a research lab here is to figure out how to design publishable, interactive databases for findings and host them on my website and put the code on my own self-hosted instance.
+
+# Takeaways
+Before I came to UCLA, I thought college would be a lot different than high-school.
+It is, but in a different way - you have a lot more agency and control over what you can do.
+I effectively have free will - which is scary.
+
+But at the same time, you can change and truly find yourself with no stigma.
+
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/content/about.md b/content/about.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e159a10..0000000
--- a/content/about.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-+++
-date = '2025-02-24T10:20:27-08:00'
-draft = false
-title = 'First post'
-+++
-
-# My time
-
-
-
diff --git a/hugo.toml b/hugo.toml
index 6b3748c..b6f2085 100644
--- a/hugo.toml
+++ b/hugo.toml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-baseURL = '/'
+baseURL = 'https://rdesh.xyz'
relativeURLs = true
languageCode = 'en-us'
title = "Rohan's Website"
diff --git a/public/about/index.html b/public/about/index.html
index 2feb323..2d78390 100644
--- a/public/about/index.html
+++ b/public/about/index.html
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
-<head><script src="/livereload.js?mindelay=10&v=2&port=1313&path=livereload" data-no-instant defer></script>
+<head>
<title>First Post | Rohan's Website</title>
- <link rel="canonical" href="//localhost:1313/">
+ <link rel="canonical" href="https://rdesh.xyz/">
<link rel='alternate' type='application/rss+xml' title="Rohan's Website RSS" href='../index.xml'>
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='../style.css'>
<link rel="icon" href="../favicon.ico">
@@ -19,14 +19,14 @@
<h1 id="my-time">My time</h1>
-<div id="nextprev"><a href="../life_in_college/"><div id="nextart">Next:<br>Life_in_college</div></a>
+<div id="nextprev"><a href="../life_in_college/"><div id="nextart">Next:<br>Life in college</div></a>
</div>
</article>
</main>
<footer>
- <a href="//localhost:1313/">//localhost:1313/</a><br><br><a href="../index.xml"><img src="../rss.svg" style="max-height:1.5em" alt="RSS Feed" title="Subscribe via RSS for updates."></a>
+ <a href="https://rdesh.xyz/">https://rdesh.xyz/</a><br><br><a href="../index.xml"><img src="../rss.svg" style="max-height:1.5em" alt="RSS Feed" title="Subscribe via RSS for updates."></a>
</footer>
</body>
diff --git a/public/categories/index.html b/public/categories/index.html
index fa92d53..b2f07c1 100644
--- a/public/categories/index.html
+++ b/public/categories/index.html
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
-<head><script src="/livereload.js?mindelay=10&v=2&port=1313&path=livereload" data-no-instant defer></script>
+<head>
<title>Categories | Rohan's Website</title>
- <link rel="canonical" href="//localhost:1313/">
+ <link rel="canonical" href="https://rdesh.xyz/">
<link rel='alternate' type='application/rss+xml' title="Rohan's Website RSS" href='../index.xml'>
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='../style.css'>
<link rel="icon" href="../favicon.ico">
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
</main>
<footer>
- <a href="//localhost:1313/">//localhost:1313/</a><br><br><a href="../index.xml"><img src="../rss.svg" style="max-height:1.5em" alt="RSS Feed" title="Subscribe via RSS for updates."></a>
+ <a href="https://rdesh.xyz/">https://rdesh.xyz/</a><br><br><a href="../index.xml"><img src="../rss.svg" style="max-height:1.5em" alt="RSS Feed" title="Subscribe via RSS for updates."></a>
</footer>
</body>
diff --git a/public/categories/index.xml b/public/categories/index.xml
index 71777d7..a4a4bb0 100644
--- a/public/categories/index.xml
+++ b/public/categories/index.xml
@@ -1,31 +1,51 @@
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<channel>
<title>Rohan's Website</title>
- <link>//localhost:1313/categories/</link>
+ <link>https://rdesh.xyz/categories/</link>
<description>Recent content in Categories on Rohan's Website</description>
<generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator>
<language>en-us</language>
- <atom:link href="//localhost:1313/categories/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
+ <atom:link href="https://rdesh.xyz/categories/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
<item>
- <title>Life_in_college</title>
- <link>//localhost:1313/life_in_college/</link>
+ <title>Life in college</title>
+ <link>https://rdesh.xyz/life_in_college/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 23:06:56 -0800</pubDate>
- <guid>//localhost:1313/life_in_college/</guid>
- <description><h1 id="test">Test</h1>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>First post</title>
- <link>//localhost:1313/about/</link>
- <pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:20:27 -0800</pubDate>
-
- <guid>//localhost:1313/about/</guid>
- <description><h1 id="my-time">My time</h1>
+ <guid>https://rdesh.xyz/life_in_college/</guid>
+ <description><h1 id="disclaimer">Disclaimer</h1>
+<p>I want to preface this by saying I absolutely love it here.
+Probably nothing else would be different if I went to another college.
+That being said, I&rsquo;ve learned a lot about my time here, and what I truly value.</p>
+<h1 id="the-value-of-solitude">The value of solitude</h1>
+<p>Some might simply just call this loneliness.
+For some time, it did feel that way for me.
+Not that I didn&rsquo;t have people to see, but it was hard to make any sort of meaningful connection with people.
+I think eventually it came to a point where I was so frustrated of not making any meaningful contact that I sort of became a recluse, for a lack of a better term.</p>
+<p>However, it did get me thinking a lot.</p>
+<p>About my future, and what I wanted from it.</p>
+<p>About how I envisioned my future self and what steps I could take to get there.</p>
+<p>I do think it was good that I didn&rsquo;t have much external influence from other people.
+I&rsquo;ve always thought of myself as aspiring to be more independent, and maybe that&rsquo;s a weakness.
+But I&rsquo;ve always been stubborn in the sense that I try my hardest to improve my own life independent of other people.</p>
+<h1 id="things-i-noticed">Things I noticed</h1>
+<p>Lots of people already want to get into a specific field.
+I know myself I&rsquo;ve been looking into healthcare, but I&rsquo;m also interested in research.
+Maybe I can combine the two later.</p>
+<p>This really isn&rsquo;t a problem, but I&rsquo;ve always been indecisive, even back in high school.
+Most of my friends wanted to be investment bankers, or lawyers, or doctors, and tailored their extracurriculars and activities to achieve that.</p>
+<p>Meanwhile, I was more-or-less just scrambling trying to do everything that interested me.
+It&rsquo;s weird since I do want to try to get into a med school, but I also have interests in CS and more specifically developing FOSS software to help scientific endeavours.</p>
+<p>My love for FOSS caused me to set up this blog, and once I can figure out how to get the website working without people having to be on the UCLA vpn, I can do a lot more interesting things.
+Already I have a self-hosted <a href="https://git.rdesh.xyz/explore/repos">Gitea</a> instance, as well as a Radicale instance.
+One of my interests once I get into a research lab here is to figure out how to design publishable, interactive databases for findings and host them on my website and put the code on my own self-hosted instance.</p>
+<h1 id="takeaways">Takeaways</h1>
+<p>Before I came to UCLA, I thought college would be a lot different than high-school.
+It is, but in a different way - you have a lot more agency and control over what you can do.
+I effectively have free will - which is scary.</p>
+<p>But at the same time, you can change and truly find yourself with no stigma.</p>
</description>
</item>
diff --git a/public/index.html b/public/index.html
index ce97ae4..626b895 100644
--- a/public/index.html
+++ b/public/index.html
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
- <meta name="generator" content="Hugo 0.143.1"><script src="/livereload.js?mindelay=10&v=2&port=1313&path=livereload" data-no-instant defer></script>
+ <meta name="generator" content="Hugo 0.145.0">
<title>Rohan's Website</title>
- <link rel="canonical" href="//localhost:1313/">
+ <link rel="canonical" href="https://rdesh.xyz/">
<link rel='alternate' type='application/rss+xml' title="Rohan's Website RSS" href='./index.xml'>
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='./style.css'>
<link rel="icon" href="./favicon.ico">
@@ -46,9 +46,6 @@ I’d appreciate any guidance involving this, or once I get into a lab and s
<ul>
<li><time datetime="2025-02-26T23:06:56-08:00">2025 Feb 26</time> – <a href="./life_in_college/">Life in college</a>
- </li>
-<li><time datetime="2025-02-24T10:20:27-08:00">2025 Feb 24</time> – <a href="./about/">First post</a>
-
</li>
</ul>
@@ -56,7 +53,7 @@ I’d appreciate any guidance involving this, or once I get into a lab and s
</main>
<footer>
- <a href="//localhost:1313/">//localhost:1313/</a><br><br><a href="./index.xml"><img src="./rss.svg" style="max-height:1.5em" alt="RSS Feed" title="Subscribe via RSS for updates."></a>
+ <a href="https://rdesh.xyz/">https://rdesh.xyz/</a><br><br><a href="./index.xml"><img src="./rss.svg" style="max-height:1.5em" alt="RSS Feed" title="Subscribe via RSS for updates."></a>
</footer>
</body>
diff --git a/public/index.xml b/public/index.xml
index a70a686..34a3b60 100644
--- a/public/index.xml
+++ b/public/index.xml
@@ -1,33 +1,52 @@
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<channel>
<title>Rohan's Website</title>
- <link>//localhost:1313/</link>
+ <link>https://rdesh.xyz/</link>
<description>Recent content in Rohan on Rohan's Website</description>
<generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator>
<language>en-us</language>
<lastBuildDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:42:32 -0800</lastBuildDate>
- <atom:link href="//localhost:1313/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
+ <atom:link href="https://rdesh.xyz/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
<item>
<title>Life in college</title>
- <link>//localhost:1313/life_in_college/</link>
+ <link>https://rdesh.xyz/life_in_college/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 23:06:56 -0800</pubDate>
- <guid>//localhost:1313/life_in_college/</guid>
- <description><h1 id="beginning">Beginning</h1>
-<p>Idk how to really</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>First post</title>
- <link>//localhost:1313/about/</link>
- <pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:20:27 -0800</pubDate>
-
- <guid>//localhost:1313/about/</guid>
- <description><h1 id="my-time">My time</h1>
+ <guid>https://rdesh.xyz/life_in_college/</guid>
+ <description><h1 id="disclaimer">Disclaimer</h1>
+<p>I want to preface this by saying I absolutely love it here.
+Probably nothing else would be different if I went to another college.
+That being said, I&rsquo;ve learned a lot about my time here, and what I truly value.</p>
+<h1 id="the-value-of-solitude">The value of solitude</h1>
+<p>Some might simply just call this loneliness.
+For some time, it did feel that way for me.
+Not that I didn&rsquo;t have people to see, but it was hard to make any sort of meaningful connection with people.
+I think eventually it came to a point where I was so frustrated of not making any meaningful contact that I sort of became a recluse, for a lack of a better term.</p>
+<p>However, it did get me thinking a lot.</p>
+<p>About my future, and what I wanted from it.</p>
+<p>About how I envisioned my future self and what steps I could take to get there.</p>
+<p>I do think it was good that I didn&rsquo;t have much external influence from other people.
+I&rsquo;ve always thought of myself as aspiring to be more independent, and maybe that&rsquo;s a weakness.
+But I&rsquo;ve always been stubborn in the sense that I try my hardest to improve my own life independent of other people.</p>
+<h1 id="things-i-noticed">Things I noticed</h1>
+<p>Lots of people already want to get into a specific field.
+I know myself I&rsquo;ve been looking into healthcare, but I&rsquo;m also interested in research.
+Maybe I can combine the two later.</p>
+<p>This really isn&rsquo;t a problem, but I&rsquo;ve always been indecisive, even back in high school.
+Most of my friends wanted to be investment bankers, or lawyers, or doctors, and tailored their extracurriculars and activities to achieve that.</p>
+<p>Meanwhile, I was more-or-less just scrambling trying to do everything that interested me.
+It&rsquo;s weird since I do want to try to get into a med school, but I also have interests in CS and more specifically developing FOSS software to help scientific endeavours.</p>
+<p>My love for FOSS caused me to set up this blog, and once I can figure out how to get the website working without people having to be on the UCLA vpn, I can do a lot more interesting things.
+Already I have a self-hosted <a href="https://git.rdesh.xyz/explore/repos">Gitea</a> instance, as well as a Radicale instance.
+One of my interests once I get into a research lab here is to figure out how to design publishable, interactive databases for findings and host them on my website and put the code on my own self-hosted instance.</p>
+<h1 id="takeaways">Takeaways</h1>
+<p>Before I came to UCLA, I thought college would be a lot different than high-school.
+It is, but in a different way - you have a lot more agency and control over what you can do.
+I effectively have free will - which is scary.</p>
+<p>But at the same time, you can change and truly find yourself with no stigma.</p>
</description>
</item>
diff --git a/public/life_in_college/index.html b/public/life_in_college/index.html
index d935edf..74b3f89 100644
--- a/public/life_in_college/index.html
+++ b/public/life_in_college/index.html
@@ -1,13 +1,20 @@
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
-<head><script src="/livereload.js?mindelay=10&v=2&port=1313&path=livereload" data-no-instant defer></script>
+<head>
<title>Life in College | Rohan's Website</title>
- <link rel="canonical" href="//localhost:1313/">
+ <link rel="canonical" href="https://rdesh.xyz/">
<link rel='alternate' type='application/rss+xml' title="Rohan's Website RSS" href='../index.xml'>
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='../style.css'>
<link rel="icon" href="../favicon.ico">
- <meta name="description" content="Beginning
-Idk how to really">
+ <meta name="description" content="Disclaimer
+I want to preface this by saying I absolutely love it here.
+Probably nothing else would be different if I went to another college.
+That being said, I’ve learned a lot about my time here, and what I truly value.
+The value of solitude
+Some might simply just call this loneliness.
+For some time, it did feel that way for me.
+Not that I didn’t have people to see, but it was hard to make any sort of meaningful connection with people.
+I think eventually it came to a point where I was so frustrated of not making any meaningful contact that I sort of became a recluse, for a lack of a better term.">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">
<meta charset="utf-8">
@@ -17,19 +24,45 @@ Idk how to really">
<header><h1 id="tag_Life in college">Life in college</h1></header>
<article>
-<h1 id="beginning">Beginning</h1>
-<p>Idk how to really</p>
+<h1 id="disclaimer">Disclaimer</h1>
+<p>I want to preface this by saying I absolutely love it here.
+Probably nothing else would be different if I went to another college.
+That being said, I’ve learned a lot about my time here, and what I truly value.</p>
+<h1 id="the-value-of-solitude">The value of solitude</h1>
+<p>Some might simply just call this loneliness.
+For some time, it did feel that way for me.
+Not that I didn’t have people to see, but it was hard to make any sort of meaningful connection with people.
+I think eventually it came to a point where I was so frustrated of not making any meaningful contact that I sort of became a recluse, for a lack of a better term.</p>
+<p>However, it did get me thinking a lot.</p>
+<p>About my future, and what I wanted from it.</p>
+<p>About how I envisioned my future self and what steps I could take to get there.</p>
+<p>I do think it was good that I didn’t have much external influence from other people.
+I’ve always thought of myself as aspiring to be more independent, and maybe that’s a weakness.
+But I’ve always been stubborn in the sense that I try my hardest to improve my own life independent of other people.</p>
+<h1 id="things-i-noticed">Things I noticed</h1>
+<p>Lots of people already want to get into a specific field.
+I know myself I’ve been looking into healthcare, but I’m also interested in research.
+Maybe I can combine the two later.</p>
+<p>This really isn’t a problem, but I’ve always been indecisive, even back in high school.
+Most of my friends wanted to be investment bankers, or lawyers, or doctors, and tailored their extracurriculars and activities to achieve that.</p>
+<p>Meanwhile, I was more-or-less just scrambling trying to do everything that interested me.
+It’s weird since I do want to try to get into a med school, but I also have interests in CS and more specifically developing FOSS software to help scientific endeavours.</p>
+<p>My love for FOSS caused me to set up this blog, and once I can figure out how to get the website working without people having to be on the UCLA vpn, I can do a lot more interesting things.
+Already I have a self-hosted <a href="https://git.rdesh.xyz/explore/repos">Gitea</a> instance, as well as a Radicale instance.
+One of my interests once I get into a research lab here is to figure out how to design publishable, interactive databases for findings and host them on my website and put the code on my own self-hosted instance.</p>
+<h1 id="takeaways">Takeaways</h1>
+<p>Before I came to UCLA, I thought college would be a lot different than high-school.
+It is, but in a different way - you have a lot more agency and control over what you can do.
+I effectively have free will - which is scary.</p>
+<p>But at the same time, you can change and truly find yourself with no stigma.</p>
-<div id="nextprev">
-<a href="../about/"><div id="prevart">Previous:<br>First post</div></a>
-</div>
</article>
</main>
<footer>
- <a href="//localhost:1313/">//localhost:1313/</a><br><br><a href="../index.xml"><img src="../rss.svg" style="max-height:1.5em" alt="RSS Feed" title="Subscribe via RSS for updates."></a>
+ <a href="https://rdesh.xyz/">https://rdesh.xyz/</a><br><br><a href="../index.xml"><img src="../rss.svg" style="max-height:1.5em" alt="RSS Feed" title="Subscribe via RSS for updates."></a>
</footer>
</body>
diff --git a/public/sitemap.xml b/public/sitemap.xml
index 1420663..bcca71c 100644
--- a/public/sitemap.xml
+++ b/public/sitemap.xml
@@ -2,17 +2,14 @@
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<url>
- <loc>//localhost:1313/life_in_college/</loc>
+ <loc>https://rdesh.xyz/life_in_college/</loc>
<lastmod>2025-02-26T23:06:56-08:00</lastmod>
</url><url>
- <loc>//localhost:1313/</loc>
+ <loc>https://rdesh.xyz/</loc>
<lastmod>2025-02-24T10:42:32-08:00</lastmod>
</url><url>
- <loc>//localhost:1313/about/</loc>
- <lastmod>2025-02-24T10:20:27-08:00</lastmod>
+ <loc>https://rdesh.xyz/categories/</loc>
</url><url>
- <loc>//localhost:1313/categories/</loc>
- </url><url>
- <loc>//localhost:1313/tags/</loc>
+ <loc>https://rdesh.xyz/tags/</loc>
</url>
</urlset>
diff --git a/public/style.css b/public/style.css
index d3b2088..d6fcc9c 100644
--- a/public/style.css
+++ b/public/style.css
@@ -1,7 +1,15 @@
body {
font-family: sans-serif ;
- background: #110000 ;
- color: #ccc ;
+ background: #232A2E ;
+ color: #D3C6AA;
+}
+
+a {
+ color: #7FBBB3;
+}
+
+a:visited {
+ color: #D699B6;
}
main {
diff --git a/public/tags/index.html b/public/tags/index.html
index bc57e2f..0e76a48 100644
--- a/public/tags/index.html
+++ b/public/tags/index.html
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
-<head><script src="/livereload.js?mindelay=10&v=2&port=1313&path=livereload" data-no-instant defer></script>
+<head>
<title>Tags | Rohan's Website</title>
- <link rel="canonical" href="//localhost:1313/">
+ <link rel="canonical" href="https://rdesh.xyz/">
<link rel='alternate' type='application/rss+xml' title="Rohan's Website RSS" href='../index.xml'>
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='../style.css'>
<link rel="icon" href="../favicon.ico">
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
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+ <a href="https://rdesh.xyz/">https://rdesh.xyz/</a><br><br><a href="../index.xml"><img src="../rss.svg" style="max-height:1.5em" alt="RSS Feed" title="Subscribe via RSS for updates."></a>
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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<channel>
<title>Rohan's Website</title>
- <link>//localhost:1313/tags/</link>
+ <link>https://rdesh.xyz/tags/</link>
<description>Recent content in Tags on Rohan's Website</description>
<generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator>
<language>en-us</language>
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- <title>Life_in_college</title>
- <link>//localhost:1313/life_in_college/</link>
+ <title>Life in college</title>
+ <link>https://rdesh.xyz/life_in_college/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 23:06:56 -0800</pubDate>
- <guid>//localhost:1313/life_in_college/</guid>
- <description><h1 id="test">Test</h1>
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- <title>First post</title>
- <link>//localhost:1313/about/</link>
- <pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:20:27 -0800</pubDate>
-
- <guid>//localhost:1313/about/</guid>
- <description><h1 id="my-time">My time</h1>
+ <guid>https://rdesh.xyz/life_in_college/</guid>
+ <description><h1 id="disclaimer">Disclaimer</h1>
+<p>I want to preface this by saying I absolutely love it here.
+Probably nothing else would be different if I went to another college.
+That being said, I&rsquo;ve learned a lot about my time here, and what I truly value.</p>
+<h1 id="the-value-of-solitude">The value of solitude</h1>
+<p>Some might simply just call this loneliness.
+For some time, it did feel that way for me.
+Not that I didn&rsquo;t have people to see, but it was hard to make any sort of meaningful connection with people.
+I think eventually it came to a point where I was so frustrated of not making any meaningful contact that I sort of became a recluse, for a lack of a better term.</p>
+<p>However, it did get me thinking a lot.</p>
+<p>About my future, and what I wanted from it.</p>
+<p>About how I envisioned my future self and what steps I could take to get there.</p>
+<p>I do think it was good that I didn&rsquo;t have much external influence from other people.
+I&rsquo;ve always thought of myself as aspiring to be more independent, and maybe that&rsquo;s a weakness.
+But I&rsquo;ve always been stubborn in the sense that I try my hardest to improve my own life independent of other people.</p>
+<h1 id="things-i-noticed">Things I noticed</h1>
+<p>Lots of people already want to get into a specific field.
+I know myself I&rsquo;ve been looking into healthcare, but I&rsquo;m also interested in research.
+Maybe I can combine the two later.</p>
+<p>This really isn&rsquo;t a problem, but I&rsquo;ve always been indecisive, even back in high school.
+Most of my friends wanted to be investment bankers, or lawyers, or doctors, and tailored their extracurriculars and activities to achieve that.</p>
+<p>Meanwhile, I was more-or-less just scrambling trying to do everything that interested me.
+It&rsquo;s weird since I do want to try to get into a med school, but I also have interests in CS and more specifically developing FOSS software to help scientific endeavours.</p>
+<p>My love for FOSS caused me to set up this blog, and once I can figure out how to get the website working without people having to be on the UCLA vpn, I can do a lot more interesting things.
+Already I have a self-hosted <a href="https://git.rdesh.xyz/explore/repos">Gitea</a> instance, as well as a Radicale instance.
+One of my interests once I get into a research lab here is to figure out how to design publishable, interactive databases for findings and host them on my website and put the code on my own self-hosted instance.</p>
+<h1 id="takeaways">Takeaways</h1>
+<p>Before I came to UCLA, I thought college would be a lot different than high-school.
+It is, but in a different way - you have a lot more agency and control over what you can do.
+I effectively have free will - which is scary.</p>
+<p>But at the same time, you can change and truly find yourself with no stigma.</p>
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font-family: sans-serif ;
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