The image above shows vapor cones formed by an F-18 during transonic flight [6].

Woodworking

I was first introduced to woodworking as an eighth-grader when my industrial design class visited the high school woodshop. I was immediately hooked during my visit, and consequently spent the next four years of high school taking independent study woodworking classes. While this hobby has taken a forced hiatus due to the lack of access to a woodshop, I intend to resume this passion as soon as I can. Below, I have highlighted some of my favorite pieces I made throughout high school.

Guitar

I started playing guitar when the Pandemic began-- a hobby I would have pursued much sooner had I not been a stubborn younger brother with an older brother who played. Playing guitar also encompasses my love for music and musical gear, as I research what equipment certain artists used to create specific songs that I enjoy or tones that intrigue me, and work to mimic the artist. Below, I keep track of certain tones I am chasing or feel I have gotten down well, as well as songs I am learning with my roommates, who play drums and bass. Also, when funds are available, I will be building a replica of David Gilmour's (Pink Floyd) "Black Strat", and my progress for that project is tracked below.

Song List

I started learning full songs this past academic year as opposed to learning riffs, licks, and scales. This change began when one of my roommates bought a drum set and my other roommate brought his bass guitar to campus. Below is a list I use to track my progress on the songs we are learning together.

Active Songs

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

• • Completed

Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin

• • Rhythm sections completed

  • Solo learned, but intro lick and ladder lick need brought to tempo

Santeria - Sublime

• • Rhythm sections completed

  • Solo learned, but not up to proper speed

Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin

• • Intro to extended jam section is well-oiled, but the jam is still a work in progress

  • Solo is essentially unlearned due to complexity and length, but an improvised section works as a filler

  • Exit from solo and outro need more practice

Lemon Song - Led Zeppelin

• • Main riff and variations are almost up to tempo

  • Turnaround solo is learned, but not the hybrid-picked section into the turnaround solo 

  • Solo unlearned

Inactive Songs

White Room - Cream

• • Rhythm sections completed

  • Beginning of solo completed -- improvisation of solo in style completed

Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd

• • Rhythm sections completed

  • Need to learn solo

Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin

• • Rhythm and solo completed

  • Need to find working improvisation to fill section made with theremin in actual song

Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out - Derek and the Dominoes

• • Rhythm and intro solo completed

  • Improvised solo learned, but not note for note to the original

Hand of Doom - Black Sabbath

• • Intro riff, and two of three main riffs completed

  • Need to learn final riff and solo

Beekeeping

Introduced to beekeeping by my high school Biology teacher Mr. Nikiforow, who hosted a series of after-school lectures that taught the basics of beekeeping, I started two hives in the spring of 2016. I purchased one of the hives and replicated the other in woodshop, while also building a 'nucleus' hive to temporarily store the bees until they were acclimated to their queen. While one of the hives failed to survive the first winter, the other hive survived until 2019 when it was destroyed by a falling tree. Although unable to practice this hobby at college, I intend to start a hive when I have the property to do so. 

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