2025 in hindsight

reflection
personal
looking back: 2025
Published

February 16, 2026

2025 looking back

went to San Juan Puerto Rico
collaborated across projects
got my driving license, yet didn’t get enough experience on the wheels
presented some part of my work in a local conference at cshl

applied to 25 under 25 Nepalaya’s writing review
selected under short story
point to be noted that such 25 under 25, under 30, etc are artificial metrics; over time they become irrelevant. nature has no such buckets.

also completed a book of poems; will consider to publish them enrolled in a script-writing workshop and produced a compelling script. thinking of submitting this to AFF watch handful of movies - sentimental value is probably my best of 2025 applied to graduate schools
interviewed for two; no final offer yet

went to boston with friends

Readings

  • The house of the spirits by isabel allende
  • notes from underground by dostoevsky
  • Plays: waiting for godot by Beckett; rosencratz and guildenstern are dead by tom stoppard; the visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt; the birthday party by harold pinter
  • wuthering heights by Emily Bronte
  • Poems from an anthology
  • Invisible cities by italo cavino
  • the invisible man by H.G. Wells
  • A mathematician’s apology by G.H. Hardy
  • 2666 by Robert Bolano
  • Karma Yoga by vivekananda
  • the gene machine by Venki Ramakrishnan
  • A History of the World in 6 Glasses by tom standage

back to the future

if u get into a school/s, decide one, go there, choose a lab and project and do the best with the available resources

read,write, and watch more

visit ?

maintain a lifestyle (car or no car, gym/rock climbing/swimming, meditation etc ??)