About me

Little Known Facts

Though I have touched on some of these in the sections above, there are certain aspects of my life that most people would not assume and few know.

First is the extent to which I was engaged in my piano. Starting at age 5 I was a committed and high level pianist. I competed in multiple national and provincial competitions, winning awards at every level. Unfortunately, my rival was Jan Lisiecki, a supremely talented musician who has gone on to become a renown concert pianist, so most of those awards were 2nd place or lower. By the age of 13 I had graduated the Royal Conservatory of Music in Piano and concentrated on my sports. In 2018, at 23 years old, I bought myself a piano and took it back up.

Another little known fact is my extensive spiritual and philosophical study in my free time. I have had a propensity for existential thinking since I had the capacity for creative thought. During the COVID-19 pandemic, this innate questioning became my main area of concentration. From Seneca to Simone Weil, I devoured anything that questioned the nature of consciousness and human nature. Living alone in an apartment in Sherbrooke, I spend much of (dwindling) free time in pursuit of deeper understanding of reality. I am therefore highly questioning and critical in most things I consider. Most of these pondering I keep to myself unless in the company of my close social circle, or prompted by critical analysis questions (such as in my University Courses).