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As an EMT
I’m Daniel, a freshman from the Class of 2020. I was born in Singapore, but raised in the Bay Area, CA. I graduated from high school in the UK in 2013, and having since completed a gap year as a political campaign volunteer (for the 2014 Indonesian presidential elections) and my two-year national service obligation in Singapore as an EMT for the Singapore Civil Defence Force, I finally made it here to Amherst. And I wouldn’t trade it for anything!! (Ask me that again in winter though… if you can find me under the mountain of blankets I’d doubtless be hiding under)

I love travelling! TripAdvisor tells me I’ve visited
 12% of the planet. So that’s another 88% to go! 

 At Amherst, I’m a prospective Computer Science/Psychology double major – but emphasis on the prospective – and I spend my Fridays at the Book & Plow farm either picking or cleaning vegetables, but always having a great time. I also have the privilege of serving as an AAS (Association of Amherst Students) Senator for my class, and sit on the AAS Budgetary Committee.

 In my free time, I most enjoy meeting new people, discovering new experiences, and pushing my boundaries.  
Some other interests include photography, snowboarding, and (slowly) sipping on wine.

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What is this?

The idea of this page is to list the blog posts I have published in a systematic, easy-to-navigate fashion, and also outline future blog posts ideas that I have floating around in my head waiting to be typed out and published at the appropriate time (time management -- a valuable skill especially at Amherst!). These posts/ideas are organised into broad categories, which I hope you find useful for navigating, as opposed to in reverse chronological order.

My Favorite Posts/Photo Albums

Specific Trip Reports

Meta-Trip Reports

  • Boston: random weekday trip
  • NYC: EZOO, Meadows, weekends in general

My Sustained School Activities

  • AAS (student government, Amherst Association of Students)
  • ACAD (substance-free programming, Amherst College After Dark)
  • Archery Club
  • Outing Club
Once? Maybe Twice

School Events

  • Fall Fest
  • Family Weekends 
  • Formals
  • 5College Parties
    • UMass Frats (Pi, Lambda), Sororities (Kappas), Smith, MHC, Hampshire
    • off campus
  • Career-related events
    • Google resume workshop, non-BB IB open table session, consulting case competition

Articles

  • AC Social Scene: athletes (“bridge athlete-non-athlete divide”), mixers, branches, end of fraternities
  • AAS Senate, student government
  • AC Resources
    • Roy, Susan Daniels, Nancy Robinson
  • Is Amherst reflective of the real world? OK it’s a bubble, is that useful? Do some ideas need such a nurturing environment to be born?
  • Confrontations, micro-aggressions, safe space, institutional racism
  • Should college be about getting a job or becoming a better citizen?
  • Bad people vs misinformed people

West vs East perspectives

  • Proliferation of trucks (is it really about gas prices?)
  • Western portion sizes—why are they so big? Also, what’s with the ubiquity of soda
  • Hook up culture... Is it related to drinking age? Or CV-building mission of high school
  • Different perspectives on smoking between developing and developed nations

On the lighter side
  • Trump's thesaurus 
  • Squirrels vs. chipmunks
Collection of Miscellaneous Awesome Things

  • Alltrails - great app that shows you nearby hiking trails with routes, photos, and reviews
  • newsmap.jp - awesome visual way to organise news
And Other Things
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