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Baking

My first year at Chapel Hill was pretty stressful; I found baking to be a relaxing hobby. Here are some of my creations.
Gingerbread Cake
Gingerbread cake with spiced Italian meringue buttercream and candied cranberries.
Princess Cake
Prinsesstårta: Swedish vanilla sponge with pastry cream and homemade raspberry jam.
Princess Inside
Prinsesstårta (inside).
Carrot Cake
Carrot Cake with cream cheese icing and marzipan carrots.
Stout Cake
Guiness Stout Cake: Deep chocolate layer cake.
Smores Cake
S'mores Cake: Chocolate cake with marshmallow fluff buttercream and graham cracker crumble.
Espresso Cake
Tiramisu Cake: Chocolate cake soaked in fresh espresso and iced with whipped cream.
Croquembouche
Croquembouche: tower of homemade cream puffs held together by caramel.
Black Forest
Black Forest Cake: Chocolate cake with a cherry compote, cherry liquor, and whipped cream icing.
Black Forest 2
Black Forest Cake 2: Although I felt this one looks better, it did not taste as good.
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Wedding Cake
My first wedding cake! Chocolate cake with peppermint Swiss meringue buttercream and chocolate ganache. Congrats Meredith and Mario!
Raspberry Chocolate
Chocolate with chocolate buttercream and chocolate ganache. A small cake made with the scraps leftover from the wedding cake.
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Dutch Apple Pie
Dutch Apple Pie.
Apple Tart
Apple tart with an apricot glaze and an almond meal crust.
Raspberry Chocolate 2
Another Raspberry Chocolate cake. This one has homemade jam in the center.
Hummingbird Cake
Hummingbird Cake.
Mint Chocolate Chip Cake
Mint Chocolate Chip Cake.
S'mores Cake Number 2
S'mores Cake, take 2.
Blackberry Pie
Blackberry Pie with a Buttermilk Crust. I was really proud of this one :)
Chocolate Stout
Chocolate Stout Cake with Bourbon-Vanilla Icing. For my Uncle's Birthday (hey, Bill!)
Mint Chocolate Chip Cake 2
Mint Chocolate Chip Cake 2.
Hummingbird Cake 2
My second attempt at the Hummingbird Cake.
Chocolate Stout Cake 3
Another chocolate stout cake with bourbon vanilla cream cheese icing.


Personal Projects and Media (click images)

Pokémon Orange & Blue is a version of the Pokémon games themed around my undergraduate university: Bucknell. It is written in Java and was created by myself and 3 good friends of mine. As we are all avid fans of Pokémon, our goal was to create something that looked and felt like one of the original games. Among other things, this project was an exercise in the Agile Scrum methodology. The above Pokéball links to a .jar file of the game, which requires an updated version of Java to run.
I worked on a software team with three other coders on a project commissioned by Bucknell's Griot Institute (for Africana Studies) to help create an interactive map to creatively display the history of the sugar mills of Antigua. This was done using an agile/scrum methodology and relied heavily on the previous expertise of our team members. The main vision of this project was to provide a visually-pleasing way to present the history of the African Diaspora in Antigua.
Visual Disturbances was an interdisciplinary project amongst people in the Mathematics, Computer Science, Psychology, and Film & Media Studies fields. I was in charge of the data analysis and visualizations for this project and provided major contributions to the upcoming paper (see publications).
Caught is a short film written, directed, and produced by myself and my good friend Alex Gao for a 24-hour horror film competition. A very special thanks to our leading lady: Hannah Rickertsen! After a very fun and very late night, we won first place (and the cash price)! Our film was screened at the beautiful campus theatre and can be watched on YouTube (click image).