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In 8 hours, family and friends will gather at our home to celebrate my graduation. It’s a big deal - I left Kenya for Princeton, graduated and now work at Microsoft. I’ll probably need to say something at some point. Here’s that thing.

I’m humbled, not because I’m striving to be virtuous, but from realizing that my current state is a series of non-deterministic yet compounding luck [TRoL] , [Housel] . In my time counselling Kenyan students applying to US universities, I haven’t been able to reliably help them gain admission [KAtUS] .

Today the sun is so angry that it has descended a few feet to prove its power. Point noted. I adjust my baseball cap in self-defense.

Two people on a farm. The shirtless man ferociously stabs the ground thrice before moving to his right. A girl jovially follows the steps of our warrior, carefully placing two maize seeds and three bean seeds in each wound, and dressing it up with a layer of earth.

On graduating, I pictured myself blossoming into a voracious autodidact. Unlike those pesky pre-requisites scattered through college, the topics I’d dive into will be 100% my choice! Two years after graduation, I’m underwhelmed by my progress so far. This post examines my current predicament.

OneNote Notebooks

Fortunately, OneNote is not part of M365 else I would need to pay for continued access.

Useful for annotating primary sources. Handwritten annotations make me feel as if I’m actually learning something.