Aditya Bikram Thakur
Math and computer science at Washington and Lee.
My story so far
I grew up in Pokhara, Nepal, under Machhapuchhre, the “fish tail” mountain.
Budhanilkantha School, Kathmandu: A Levels: Physics (A*), Chemistry (A*), Computer Science (A*), Mathematics (A*). Valedictorian. 1600 on the SAT.
August 2026, about 12,000 km later: Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. A math and computer science double major, on a full-ride scholarship.
Projects
DiatoMeter (September 2026 to now): with William & Mary’s Nano & Biomaterials Lab, measuring tiny glass algae shells; 136 shells measured in about 15 seconds. Visit DiatoMeter, source code.
Summer 2026, two projects of my own: walden.life, Thoreau’s Walden one day at a time; and SATitude, practice for the digital SAT.
Experience
2025, learning on my own: the Algorithms and Machine Learning specializations from Stanford, and Harvard’s CS50 AI (twelve projects).
Summer 2024, Incubate Nepal: frontend developer on Nepalingo, an open-source app for learning Nepal’s indigenous languages. I built the flashcards, daily quiz and activity cards, and merged 11 pull requests.
Words that give meaning to my life
“I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to put to rout all that was not life, and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.”
Henry David Thoreau, as read in Dead Poets Society.
“She said we are penguins on the ice. We’re not meant to fly, but God knows we can try.”