Interests

Music

I absolutely love playing the marimba. Take a look! (I’m the person playing 4 mallets) And I’m alright at the snare drum - barely good enough to play in the high school marching band.
The music I listen to, however, is not so simple to explain.
One moment, I’ll listen to rap music or something a little energetic. Then the next moment, I’m listening to video game soundtracks. My most played artists are definitely Kendrick Lamar and Tyler, The Creator, but Lena Raine and Nobuo Uematsu are both there too.

Computers

I’m currently developing code for a microcontroller vertically attached to my bulletin board with 5 clear push pins (see PicoLaunchTimer).
Back in the summer of my freshman year of high school, I saved up my money and built a mid-range desktop computer. I kid you not, it hasn’t faltered whatsoever. I don’t know what magic I was using in 9th grade.
I like to play video games, specifically pretty much nothing but single-player games on the Switch 2.

Rocketry

I’ve been paying decently close attention to the Starship program since SN5’s 150m hop test back in 2020, along with the Demo-2 mission carrying Bob and Doug. Nowadays, I’m just praying that Ship 35 Ship 36 Ship 37 doesn’t die like its ancestors did. I hate harmonic resonance and fairings deploying on the ground.
Myoldmopar and I launch rockets in our backyard. You can watch the very beginnings of this hobby of ours, updated as soon as I can on my YouTube.

Other

I’m highly interested in learning a new language - Spanish was okay, but I didn’t have a great teacher during high school… so I haven’t retained anything. But after I saw Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. and the culture surrounding it, I knew that that’s what I wanted to learn.
I’m now going for a minor in American Sign Language along with my aerospace degree.

My favorite content creators right now are definitely DougDoug, CSI Starbase, and the Everyday Astronaut.