Portfolio
Collected work from Transition School
Showcase
“The Cigarette and the Tragic Pursuit of Death in Pale Horse, Pale Rider”
Written for English class, this essay explores the symbolism of the cigarette and tragic love amidst death in Katherine Anne Porter’s novel, Pale Horse, Pale Rider. I’m currently in the process of revising and submitting to The Explicator.
“Analyzing Latent Space in Autoencoders of Varied Bottleneck Size”
This mathematics class project explores and understands the clustering of neural network representations of handwritten digits, and uncovers some interesting findings suggesting another way to represent the Deep Double Descent curve.
“Analying Sinusoidal Patterns in 2020 U.S. Presidential Election Tweets”
This mathematics class project explores trends in the frequency and sentiment of tweets in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election.
Journal Club: “Improved Protein Structure Prediction Using Potentials from Deep Learning”
Slides from a journal club presentation on a DeepMind paper for biology class.
Mathematics
- Fall Quarter Project 1 - “Intersections of Constrained Lines Within the Unit Circle”.
- Winter Quarter Project 2 - “The Continued Fraction Problem”.
- Winter Quarter Project 3 - “Optimum and Convergence Patterns in Power Towers”.
- Spring Quarter Project 4 - “Analyzing Latent Space in Autoencoders of Varied Bottleneck Size”.
- Spring Quarter Project 5 - “Analying Sinusoidal Patterns in 2020 U.S. Presidential Election Tweets”
English
- Fall Midterm Essay, on perspectives on education.
- Fall Final Research Paper - “In Defense of Section 230: How Misguided Revisions Will Trample the Internet”, on the Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
- Fall English Portfolio, English fall quarter work compilation.
- Winter Midterm Essay - “Human Masks and Hunting in ‘Antlers’”, on the blurred relationship between human and animal in Rick Bass’s short story “Antlers”.
- Winter Final Essay - “Self as Interconnected Story in ‘Song of Myself’”, on the application of the narrative creation of self to Walt Whitman’s poem, “Song of Myself”.
- Spring Midterm Essay - “The Cigarette and the Tragic Pursuit of Death in Pale Horse, Pale Rider”, on the symbolism of the cigarette and tragic love amidst death in Katherine Anne Porter’s novel, Pale Horse, Pale Rider.
- Spring Final Essay - “Socrates’ Contradiction and Love Tragedy in ‘The Birthmark’”, on romanticization, tragic love, and the application of Plato’s Symposium to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark”.
Biology
- Fall Quarter Journal Club - slides from a presentation on the paper “A Neural Algorithm for a Fundamental Computing Problem” by Dasgupta et al.
- Winter Quarter Journal Club - slides from a presentation on the paper “Improved Protein Structure Prediction Using Potentials from Deep Learning” by Senior et al. @ DeepMind.
- Winter Quarter Policy Paper - “Proposal Regulation for Invasive Brain-Computer Interface Testing on the Able-Bodied”.
- Spring Quarter Biology Seminar - “Rethinking Addiction in a Digital World” (Presentation slides)
- Spring Quarter Biology Final Project - “Machine Learning in Medicine” (Presentation slides)
Sociology
Final Research Essay - “Collective Individualism in Black Conservatism”
Reading Responses: Week 1 - Booth, Harding, Week 2 - Booth, Wallace, Week 3 - Booth, Kapczynski & Gonsalves, Van Ness, Week 4 - Althusser, De Beauvoir, Taylor
History
See notes for lectures and reading response materials here.
Fall Quarter
- Fall Midterm Essay, on the pyschological reinforcement of slavery.
- Fall Final Essay, on the South’s aggression and the Free Soil Dream in the Civil War.
- Fall Quarter Essay 1, on the role of religion in conquest.
- Fall Quarter Essay 2, on immigrant inclusion and race dynamics.
- Fall Quarter Essay 3, on the relationship between emancipation and the women’s movement.
Reading Responses: Week 1 - Rampolla, Rael, Diamond, Week 2 - Las Casas, Locke, Gonzales, Week 3 - Equiano/Vassa, Morgan, Sprigs, Week 4 - Madison, Holton, Week 5 - Reagan, Robinson, Week 6 - Anti-Catholic Petition, Zia, Jacobson, Week 7 - Brown, Johnson, Week 8 - Douglass, Truth, Jacobs, Week 9 - du Bois, Lincoln, Week 10 - Jones, Kellog
Winter Quarter
- Winter Quarter Essay 1 - “Clashing Notions of Liberty in the Gilded Age”
- Winter Quarter Essay 2 - “The Hesitancy of Progressivism”
- Final Culminating Project - “The Immolation”, a short story on unionization in the 1930s.
Reading Responses: Week 1 - Goodheart, Johnson, Week 2 - Parsons, Sumner, Dubofsky, Week 3 - Douglass, Beveridge, Kramer, Week 4 - Addams, Eastman, Stromquist, Week 5 - Preamble to the NLRA, Boyer & Morais, Week 6 - Houston, Archibald, Week 7 - Yasui, Bacevich, Week 8 - Elbaum, King Jr., Week 9 - Powell Memorandum, Kohler-Hausmann, Week 10 - McKibben, Kochhar & Cilluffo, Taylor