July 1, 2025

June 2025

Hello!

Much to catch up on —

1. At the end of May (technically cheating for a June 2025 email), I graduated from Tufts University! I took some pictures on the morning of graduation and wrote a short post looking back on my time there.
2. Christian and I took the Amtrak from Chicago to San Francisco — three days and two nights on the train. It was really beautiful.
3. A week later, I flew back to the West Coast with my parents to visit some family friends in San Diego.
4. In the next week or so, I'm moving to an apartment in Fenway in Boston! This coincides with...
5. Starting at Owner in about a week! (Working remotely from the aforementioned apartment.)

On the projects and work front:

1. I launched a new design of my personal website! If it looks familiar, that's because I copied my own previous design. Time is a circle; thanks Jerome for the push to return to that design (and for help improving on it).
2. Coinciding with high school and college graduation, I built a marketing campaign for Locket: Locket Yearbook! You can check out my yearbook as an example, or take a look at one of the TikToks that was part of the marketing push.
   • Building these kinds of projects for Locket (see also: TikTok Graveyard and IG Valentine) has been a ton of fun. I get really nice designs to build, and then I sit back and someone else is responsible for getting me hundreds-of-thousands of users. It's a sweet gig.
3. I've been working on a flashcards app for Trisha when she goes to dental school — I am now on my third iteration of the codebase, trying to re-find the energy to ship projects now that I don't have school anymore.

I think that's all. I hope you're doing well!

Talk to you next month,

Ben