David Meng

ABOUT ME

I am an undergraduate student studying Engineering Science and Philosophy at the University of Toronto.

EDUCATION

Expected Graduation 2028

University of Toronto
Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Science - BASc in EngSci, Biomedical Systems Engineering

Minor in Philosophy

EXPERIENCE

December 2025 - Present

Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network
Research Assistant, Krembil Research Institute

May 2025 - August 2025

York University
Research Assistant, Department of Psychology

WRITING

Essays belong to a literary species whose extreme variability can be studied most effectively within a three-poled frame of reference. There is the pole of the personal and the autobiographical; there is the pole of the objective, the factual, the concrete-particular; and there is the pole of the abstract-universal. Most essayists are at home and at their best in the neighborhood of only one of the essay's three poles, or at the most only in the neighborhood of two of them. […] The most richly satisfying essays are those which make the best not of one, not of two, but of all the three worlds in which it is possible for the essay to exist. Freely, effortlessly, thought and feeling move in these consummate works of art, hither and thither between the essay's three poles—from the personal to the universal, from the abstract back to the concrete, from the objective datum to the inner experience.
— Aldous L. Huxley