Normally I share my learning experiences after the fact. I’ve written before about tackling MIT’s calculus, Spanish, linear algebra, finance and other non-academic learning tasks. This time, however, I wanted to do things a little differently. I want to share my thinking process before going to learn Chinese. Then, once we land and the three […]
Chicken Hearts and Glass Explosions: A First Week in Brazil
Sometimes the best part of travel is when it all goes horribly wrong. Getting to Brazil was definitely an example of that. For the last three months, Vat and I had been living in Spain, not speaking English as a way to learn Spanish. I had put in about fifty hours of work in on […]
