WRIT 340

Pitch: My organization is the Zhao Foundation for Women Winners. Our mission to create a new generation of female billionaires that will inspire young girls to dream bigger. Although there are more female billionaires now than ever, women still make up only 11 percent of the top 0.1 percent of earners. In 2016, of the 294 female billionaires in the world only 49 were self made. I think there are many reasons for this inequality, but I refuse to believe that a lack of ability is one of them. I am passionate about this foundation because as a business woman I see this untapped potential as a financial opportunity. As a philanthropist, I am determined to help women break the diamond ceiling. According to economist Professor Zucman, at the current rate of growth it will take 100 years for women to make up half the 1 percent. I'm a pretty impatient person so I'd rather not wait that long. The Zhao Foundation for Women Winners was established to find the next female Bill Gates,...

I went to the women's brewing forum with my friend Dana. It took us a while to find because we initially went to the wrong location. The forum was in a little backroom next to the Eagle Rock Public House. We arrived a little late since we had taken a detour, so I was pretty confused initially. I had expected this to be a forum about beer, but when I arrived I realized it was actually about sake! There were two women brewers leading the forum. One of them was an expert in fermentation and the other was an expert in sake. I learned a lot about the craftsmanship that goes into brewing good beer and sake. It's a very scientific process. I sampled some of the sake but not much because I don't really like it straight. Also I was driving. The sakes they had were from the Imada, Kawatsuru, and Mioya Breweries, which are all located in Japan. I felt a little out of place at this event because Dana and I were conspicuously young among the attendants. Additionally, I thought t...

To be frank, I would not consider myself as much of a social activist or humanitarian. Empathy is not something that comes very naturally to me, and I generally believe that everyone should be responsible for their own fates. When my parents came to this country, they had communication barriers, no connections, and only $1000. But with a strong work ethic, they have been able to find success and send me to one of the most expensive universities in the country. Consequently, I do believe in the American Dream and I don't really believe in government handouts. Still, injustice exists all over the world, and we have the power to change that. Growing up in the Bay Area, I was always acutely aware of the lack of representation of female entrepreneurs. People would discuss Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg, but where were the successful female disruptors? Even if we examine the list of top richest women in the world, the list comprises almost exclusively of women who inherite...

Unfortunately, I am posting this rather late because I've had a particularly stressful week. Last night, I worked on a tax research project until 4am, and now I have to program a custom compiler for a C++ project before I leave for Coachella. I decided to share my misery with you guys, so in this post I will be talking about how to build a custom compiler. For those of you that don't know, a compiler is essentially a software that reads a high-level programming language (such as C++ or Java) and converts it into machine language that can be processed by the computer. There are five main steps to building a compiler: lexical analysis, syntax analysis, generating the AST, emitting code, and allocating registers. Lexical Analysis: A scanner takes input and serializes it into tokens that our compiler can recognize. It ensures that the lexical components of the input are correct. For example, given the sentence "I hate my life", we can tokenize it into four recognizab...

I went to the Coagula Curatorial gallery opening for the Future Gaze exhibit by Justin Bower and Randi Matushevitz on March 30. I brought my roommates with me who are pictured above. The gallery was a really cool experience and I enjoyed the exhibits a lot. I haven't been to many gallery openings so I picture them as very classy events, but this one was very casual and everyone made me feel very comfortable. They also sold $5 beers which I appreciated. The art was intriguing to me because I also am fascinated in sketching and painting human faces. I'm not very good at analyzing art but I think the artist explored interesting moods and color themes in a common subject. There were certain paintings that I just liked, even though I couldn't explain why I liked them. I would have bought one if I wasn't broke and the paintings weren't $1000. The exhibition was located in Chinatown so we walked around the neighborhood a bit after we enjoyed the gallery. I never re...