tl;dr this post is pretty boring and probably extremely boring if you’re not an mit student as mentioned in the last post i talked to a bunch of recruiters. one thing i asked quite often was the relative worth of b.s. in math as opposed to a b.s. in cs or doubling or a masters … Continue reading so i finally dropped a class

it snowed reasonably hard on monday! snow is always pretty but it’s even more gorgeous when the leaves are changing colors and still on their trees, and the color scheme of the buildings here complements everything really well (think pueblo style). i had my first snowball fight and also saw some cows which were both … Continue reading apparently its still october

i’m a bit shocked by how frequently i’ve been posting recently; it’s a lot more manageable than i initially thought (sorry cj for using this as an excuse to not apply for admissions blogger lol). it helps that my schedule has light mondays-wednesdays and heavy thursdays-sundays, and i think i want to preserve something like … Continue reading ate doritos for the first time since march

i’ve been thinking a lot about self-destructive tendencies i have. there are the obvious ones, like occasionally forcing myself into inadequate sleep cycles and eating 1.5 meals a day and not drinking enough water and all that. there’s also clout-chasing and excessive idolization and the insistence on finding new things to do until i can’t … Continue reading we’re here because we’re here

I. i finally started using an external keyboard and everything is so much easier now i feel dumb for not doing this much earlier. next step is external monitor i guessi’ve been playing with lunchclub.com and it’s been pretty interesting! would recommend trying; i’ve had some very good and very boring conversations so it’s definitely … Continue reading surprise

note: blog is finally public again which also means you can share whatever you want though idk why you'd ever need to; thanks robert carol androo for convincing me this was a good move, though if anything gets problematic i’ll change the settings again I tell people I’m not lonely living at home, and for … Continue reading everybody loves you but nobody likes you

not that i plan to make a postmortem ii anytime soon, but i imagine there’ll be lots of such posts in the near and far future the last few weeks of work were more or less the same as in my previous post.. at least it’s over now 🙂  in week 8 i had my … Continue reading postmortem i

my everaise talk happened and i am happy with how it went! a decent number (~40?) of people came (surprisingly few bio people though) and asked good questions at the end. there were almost no questions in the middle though so i can’t tell if people were confused or understood everything; i guess this is … Continue reading run away with us for the summer

i am doing some teaching over the summer now! notably:  helping with virtual mop, though i told the organizers i’d be busy during weekday work hours and nobody has sent any details yet. i’m mostly looking to interact with students and not do much in the way of actual olympiad teaching unless students specifically ask … Continue reading maybe but it’s raining tomorrow

i finished coursera intro machine learning! i think next i will read more ml papers like franklyn suggests or learn related topics. convolutional neural networks is probably first on the list, and there’s a coursera for that tooi read Germinal and was slightly disappointed, mostly because one of my friends kept saying it was really … Continue reading god mode?