hi!
i'm sam.

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when i first entered Stanford, i was determined to become a photography minor.
so immediately, my frosh fall, i took CS45N, where I learned the basics of photography.
you can see my work throughout the quarter (and pictures of dogs!) here.
for my final project, i imitated the work of the infamous Brandon Woelfel using lightroom, photoshop, and lots of string lights.i then went on to take Cell Phone Photography, where I created a photo exposé about insomnia
as well as a series about anorexia in an attempt to capture what they feel like through the medium of a phone camera.although i'm no longer a photography minor, i still take plenty of photos, from Kanye concerts to LinkedIn headshots to Instagram thirst traps.
check out my work on vsco!

• Flickr
• VSCO
• Instagram

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hi! welcome to my little corner of the world.if there's one thing in my life i've gotten good at it, it's learning how to deal with feeling dumb.i went to one of the most competitive high schools in the Bay and then went to Stanford University where i'm currently studying Computer Science with a focus in HCI and minoring in Communications. i've been surrounded by intelligent people my entire life, and it's taught me so much about being hungry to learn. i may not always know the solution to a problem off the top of my head, but i have the confidence that i'll be able to find a solution. don't get me wrong: i've had plenty of moments of feeling inadequate, doubtful of my own capabilities, and wondering whether i belong in tech as a woman. but out of that has come a passion for constantly bettering myself. i can waste time feeling sorry for myself, or put that energy towards proving the people around me wrong. so that's what i plan to do.i'm still in the midst of understanding just what i want to do, but there's been a lot of stepping stones in solidifying what exactly i care about. when i lost my best friend to suicide and struggled with my own eating disorder, i developed an intense desire to help in the mental health space. it's what led me to start an advice blog, write a book, and build to inspire delight. as i navigated high school and my crippling self esteem, i learned a lot about my relationship with beauty and fashion and decided to delve deeper into it alongside tech to take back some control. and of course, like all millennials, i'm inherently drawn to everything social media. essentially, that's me in a nutshell: media + fashion + beauty + tech.when i'm not building, you'll find me dissecting the marketing strategy of @Glossier, reading @RupiKaur poetry, singing with my acapella group @EverydayPeople, and peer counseling @TheBridge.♥︎