Life Log

Met up with Alexa Tininenko in Bentonville, AR for an evening walk to catch up before she heads back to Shanghai! 🇨🇳

Signed a 12 month lease to live with Trent Hoppe, Jacob Warner, and Abby Hamele in Seattle (Green Lake area) 🌲

Wrote code for and handed off a bot to do pairwise matching between Slack channel members (for the Raikes School) 🏫

"Graduation... nah" — 'rona 2020 🦠

Start of my last undergrad finals week 👀🤯

Last UNL Confucius Institute Chinese class (virtually, of course) 😕

Last Raikes School Design Studio release meeting ever 🙌

FaceTime with Luke to catch up 🙂I miss rooming with this guy!

End of initiation week for the 20-21 class of Mortar Board. Going to miss it 😢

Celebrated mom's birthday at home for the first time in a long time 🥳🥰

First virtual wooden nickel Wednesday with UNL Mortar Board members 😅

Likely made the drive from Lincoln back to Bentonville for the last time

One last Selleck breakfast with my roommate, Luke 😢

Last in-person Raikes All School Meeting. S/O to the free Caines 💯

Last in-person college class. EVER.

NU Chancellor sent email saying that we got a 2 week spring break & virtual classes the rest of the year 👀

Hotpot with International Welcome Team at Joevy's house 🙂

*Virtually* participated in HackTech 2020's (CalTech hackathon) — virtual because of the Coronavirus

Final update on CLS — alternate for Chinese. The only location is in Taiwan this year because of the Coronavirus.

Tapping Day for UNL senior honor societies! 🔨

Saw Carli Lloyd (US Women's soccer player) speak at UNL⚽

Celebrated selections with a night on downtown LNK with the MB homies

Selections day for the 2020-2021 class of MB — Black Masque Chapter

Chinese New Year Celebration at the Union sponsored by NUMSA 🐉

Found out I am a semi-finalist for 2020 CLS China 🇨🇳Now, I just have to wait until beginning of March to find out about finalist information.

Participated in CornHacks 2020 🌽Worked on a translation & transcription Chrome plug-in!

Went to free ice skate night at Breslow with Arena & Eugene — saw Lisa and others too!

LAST first day of the semester as an undergraduate 🎓

1st day of International Welcome Week (spring edition) 📚

Mortarboard ski trip to Breckenridge, CO 🎿

Signed contract to work full-time at Amazon in Seattle 🌲Excited to head back to the PNW!

Raikes Cohort 2016 holiday party 🎄Thanks to Ann for the lovely corgi socks & espresso candle!

Went to Google's holiday party with Cooper as his +1 🕴️

Google APM on-site interviews in Mountain View, CA

Submitted an application for the U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship program in China during summer 2020 🤞🏼

Weekend trip to Seattle to hangout with Warner, Trent, Miller, and more!

Ran the Chicago Marathon. Finished in 433 out of 45,852 runners with a time of 2:43:10.

Mortarboard won 2019 UNL Homecoming 🏆

Heard Kevin Johnson (CEO of Starbucks) speak and answer Q&A; for Raikes students

Submitted an application for the Schwarzman Scholars program in Beijing, CN. Felt great after spending a lot of time on the application.

First day of Hudl APM internship round ✌️

1st day of senior year at UNL

1st day of UNL International Welcome team 📚

Last day of summer 2019 Amazon internship

Masters of Scale live podast recording @ Wilbur Theatre with Sam and Ray

Went to my first Red Sox game ⚾

Paid off student loans from first 3 years 💰

Summited Mt. Washington, the highest mountain in the Northeast

Toured the Amazon robotics facility 😮

Completed first 60 mile week for Chicago marathon training

Ran the 2019 Boston Run to Remember half marathon in 1:19:46. Good enough for 6th overall 🏃🏼‍♂️ Showed up to the race 13 minutes late tho 🤦🏼‍♂️

First day of internship at Amazon on my team in Alexa Machine Learning Data Platform

First run along the Charles River in Boston. Rainy conditions but absolutely beautiful 😍

Moved to Boston for summer 2019

Joined UNL International Welcome Team for 2019-2020 🙂

Tapped into 2019-2020 Mortarboard (senior honor society) class @ UNL

Went to Minneapolis for the weekend with friends.

First day of Associate Product Management internship at Hudl

Return to U.S. for first time in 4 months! Sad to leave Japan but happy to see family and friends.

Went to Shibuya for Halloween with Will and Chase. SO MANY PEOPLE. Also met and chatted with founders of a neuroscience startup in India outside of a gyoza restaurant in Harajuku.

Ate a black boiled egg in Owakudani on a program trip to Hakone

Visited the official Cup Noodle (Ramen) museum in Yokohama

Started a 3 day homesay with a Japanese family. Had a lot of fun being silly with a younger sister named Yoshi.

Participated in a traditional Japanese tea ceremony with classmates

First day in Japan. Cannot put into words how excited I was! 🇯🇵

Wow! As I checked in at PVG in Shanghai, I was told the Busan airport closed overnight. I booked a hotel as I was boarding my plane, and went for a night run in South Korea after I landed. What an experience & thank goodness for the internet!

22nd birthday - time flies 👀

Leaving the U.S. for 4 months! The trip starts off with a week long trip to China to visit friends teaching English in Shanghai. S/o to Alexa and Lauren for being amazing friends 🙂

Visiting a friend from Nebraska in New York City for a week. Thanks for the hospitality, Stephen 👬

Saw corgis race at Emerald Downs (horse race track) outside Seattle 😂

Amazon's post Prime day concert at Century Link Stadium in Seattle. Demi Lovato performed.

Went to Vancouver, B.C. with friends for Canada Day! 🇨🇦

Hiked Mailbox Peak in Northbend, WA with Matt Meachem. Note: bad idea to wear jeans on a hike in 80 degree weather *cough, Matt*

First day of internship at Amazon on my team in AWS Cryptography

Moved to Seattle for summer 2018. 2nd summer in a row 🌲

Warner, Conner, and I presented our data mining Reddit sentiment analyst semester project on the 2016 presidential election

Went with Reid to see Taylor Bennett (Chance the Rapper's brother) perform in Omaha

Met Chris Burkhard during an all day photography workshop at UNL!

Ski trip to Steamboat Springs, CO with Chase, Bryan, and Warner. S/O to our hotel for the complimentary warm cookies 😍

Few to NYC for onsite interviews at Google for APM internship (update: didn't receive an offer this time)

Flew to Atlanta, GA for HackGT at Georgia Tech. S/O to Microsoft friends for putting on the hackathon and attending! So fun to see them again.

First day of Junior year at UNL

First day of internship at Microsoft on my team in SiGMA (graphics). S/O to the best teammates, Ozzy and Rebecca.

Moved to Seattle for summer 2017

Went to Minneapolis for the weekend with Will and Chase. Went to see the Minnesota Wild play - my first professional hockey game!

First time to Chicago running the Chicago Marathon. Finished in 3:27:51 (4233 place). I raised money while training for the Make-A-Wish foundation.

Went to Omaha with friends to see Chance the Rapper perform

First day of Sophomore year at UNL. Moved into the Beta house with Will and Chase.

First day of internship at BuluBox as a full-stack developer in Lincoln, NE

Beta-DG ski trip in Breckenridge, Colorado

First day of Freshman year at UNL! Majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics, minoring in Business Administration in the Raikes School of Computer Science and Management.

Played in the Arkansas 7A state soccer championship game in Fayetteville, AR. Bentonville won!

Rewarded the 2012-2013 Gatorade Arkansas Boys XC Runner of the Year.

Ran in Nike Nationals in Portland, OR. Ran a 16:00 5K to place 69th.

Ran a 15:03 5K to place 13th in the Footlocker South CC Regional race in Charlotte, NC. The winner ran a 🔥14:36!

Ran a 15:28.69 5K to win the Nike South Regional race in The Woodlands, TX. Individually qualified for Nike Nationals.