This summer I stayed in Philadelphia to work on Nanoneuro full-time. It was the first time that I have moved out of my house and worked on something independent. Something I thought about and bought into reality.
I had hoped to make substantial progress, it was actually much slower than I expected – in part because I underestimated how hard hardware truly is, but also because of how dependent I was on the machinery if I couldn’t buy them and operate them myself. Some of the machines that I needed and were critical in the manufacturing and design process were broken for six weeks (!!!), which meant that a majority of the time I spent at Penn over the summer was not actually going towards the development of Nanoneuro.
I was pretty bitter about it, but there is nothing I can do.
Instead, I have made as much progress as I could. I’m almost done with building the first semiconductor chip in the world specifically tailored for biological substrates.
Now that the fall semester is coming up and university will soon start up again, I’m questioning the value of traditional education and whether I should pursue Nanoneuro full-time. I’ve learned a lot in the little time I have spent over the summer working on it and a little in the long time I have spent in college.
