Tiffany's Guide to Navigating the Fung Fellowship: A Personal (Public) Diary

Picture Credits: Pexel This week, "the rubber meets the road", as my instructor David states in our most recent assignment description. To further my exploration of the Apple Watch's accuracy in fitness measurements, I developed a research plan and came up with a set of interview questions to ask potential interviewees. However, since my schedule was plagued with loads of computer science assignments and two midterms during the last two weeks, I wasn't able to execute the interviews. Instead, I decided to dig a little deeper into some potential forums and other search sites to see if I could potentially answer some of my own questions without speaking to an executive directly.  To start, I developed three big questions that I could potentially ask to drive the direction of my customer-product research: How reliable and accurate are the Apple Watch's fitness tracking features, especially in terms of strength training and alternative forms of exercise, compared to i...

  Picture credits: Trusted Reviews In May, my boyfriend gifted me an Apple Watch as an early birthday present. At the time, the spring semester had started to settle down and although finals were well on their way, I had more daylight hours to go outside and touch some grass. In April, I had set forth a goal to walk at least 10,000 steps everyday. I am proud to say that I was able to keep that streak for five months (for reference, September hit me like a bus and I am currently failing to maintain that streak, so I think it will end soon). During that time, I have been consistently using my watch to not only track my steps but also my active calories and heart rate. On average, I can walk 10,000 steps in approximately 4 miles. I average a mile in 20 minutes via brisk walking. My heart rate spans 100-160 beats per minute (bpm) depending on the terrain, my speed, and breathing patterns, amongst other variables. For the most part, these numbers have been consistent because the watch b...

To start, thank you for stopping by and checking out my very first post on this blog. The last time I kept a blog was 6 years ago, back in middle school. I attended a STEM program where I worked on numerous hands-on, collaborative projects pertaining to engineering and the arts. Some of my favorite projects included building earthquake-proof shelters and spaghetti bridges, where my team and I received many acclamations. Shoutout to Ms. Garcia for encouraging her students to keep a weekly blog. I wish I had done something to preserve my work back then so that I could still look back on it. Maybe I should email this blog to her (updated 10/19/24: maybe I should clean things up first). Anyway, you're probably here today to check out my work as a Fung Fellow at UC Berkeley! In some ways, starting up a blog again is extremely bittersweet to me. Will I get the chance to relive my experiences as a collaborative and innovative middle schooler? We'll see. To be honest, the Fellowship do...