Ben Borgers

My internship this summer at Glow has made me realize how much I love recording screenshots.

I often feel like my past self and my current self are different people.

One thing about me is that I make up answers to security questions.

On March 2nd, 2021 — over a year ago — I was stressed out of my mind.

Years ago, I heard CGP Grey recommend the album All Day by Girl Talk as music that he plays in the background to get work done.

When I was applying to college, I imagined my future stress levels in college.

I had a thought the other day: maybe one of the things that makes a teacher good is that they have enthusiasm for the subject, and convey it to their students.

I use an email app called HEY.

In middle and high school, I was really good at the mechanics of writing.

When I was a kid, my parents let me spend my own money.

I’m not a big fan of poetry.

A couple days ago, I saw someone on Twitter say that they always listen to music at 20% volume in the background to occupy the small part of their brain that wants to be distracted.

I was reminded today about how good the storytelling in public radio stories is.

Two weeks ago, I rewrote my personal website again.

In the summer of 2020, I spent a lot of time calling my friends.

I’ve had this idea for a week or so that I should create an app called Black Hole.

37signals co-founder Jason Fried often writes about how we shouldn’t transplant in-person work directly into remote work.

I read an idea a year ago that I still think of fairly often.

Last month, I built myself a new to-do list app that I called “tmrw”.

At the beginning of the semester four months ago, I set a goal to use all 400 of my meal swipes by the end of the semester.

This semester I decided that, after eight years of taking Chinese classes, I’m not going to continue taking them next year.

I’ve started wondering whether a lot of advice is flawed.

There have been many times in the past year that I’ve asked myself: why do I care about my grades?

There’s this idea of parasocial relationships, where you feel like you have a relationship with someone but they don’t know who you are.

For most of the life that I can remember, I’ve had a strong hobby.

Seeing Getir (an app for grocery delivery in 10-15 minutes) everywhere has gotten me thinking: I don’t understand this type of delivery app.

In freshman year of high school, my friend Christian and I made friends with a sandwich guy at school named Charles.

For my girlfriend and I’s anniversary recently, I decided to build a gift I called the Portal.

There’s this new grocery delivery app called Getir that’s been taking Boston by storm.

Recently, I’ve been writing my blog posts in batches.

Over the past couple weeks, I’ve hung a lot of posters at Tufts to advertise 3Blue1Brown coming to speak.

Recently, the Tufts Math Department invited Grant Sanderson (creator of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel) to speak.

Now that I’m in college and we use Canvas, I deeply miss Google Classroom from middle and high school.

A couple years ago, Brian Lovin wrote about “incrementally correct personal websites.”

In junior and senior years of high school, I ran a schedule app that ~2,100 students and teachers used.

We just wrapped up our final project for CS 15: Data Structures, which was called gerp.

I used to roll my eyes when people took tons of pictures on trips.

Last summer I kept deleting and re-downloading TikTok.

The last time I had to use Microsoft Word was elementary school.

Last summer, I devised the Bin System that I would use to store things in my dorm.

This is my 100th day writing a blog post every day.

I realized this morning that the English idiom, You can't have your cake and eat it too doesn’t make any sense to me.

Me and the people around me got Instagram in middle or high school.

Two weeks ago, I downloaded an app on my phone that makes me to do a slow deep breath every time I want to open specific apps.

I listened to a podcast today where the hosts were talking about how they batch creating podcasts and videos.

I started using BeReal recently.

In CS 15, we recently learned about a way of storing data called hash tables.

It’s beginning to set in that the end of freshman year at Tufts is in sight.

I’ve always found it strange that it’s so easy to stay up until the next day.

My roommate brought up the idea last night that Tufts often says they want you to become a change maker in the world, but that they don’t really want you to be a change maker if that change creates an existential threat to the university.