life update

rip socratic.org

Socratic, a website where people can ask and answer academic questions, will close to new questions and answers on August 15. I've been a regular answerer in the Chemistry section (with a brief foray into math until I realized that using KaTeX for actual math angers me even more than for chemistry—maybe someday I’ll learn). You can see my old answers here. As of today, it looks like I've been able to reach 300,000 people in my short stint:

Socratic has a special place in my heart because, there, I felt like I was helping the world understand the things I am so passionate about; the things I am so eager to share. It was a win-win situation: I got to talk about Chemistry and help other people along the way. 

I started contributing sometime in my sophomore year, and it's sneaked its way into my daily routine since.
A daily, repeating task in my mental to-do list has always been "Answer a Socratic question." I do it every weekday after I come home from school; on weekends, it's usually the first thing in the morning.

And, since I feel like I've been ticking that box off every day since the beginning of time, I think a small part of me will die on August 15. 

But I guess the death of Socratic will be the beginning of something beautiful. I'm hesitant but excited to be working with a group of other excited people on a continuation of Socratic. I’ll write an update if we make something.