Tag: grad school

Conventure ’25: The Preppening

A close up view of a library bookcase to the viewer's left, leading the eye to a blurry view of shelves and desks in the distance. The header text reads, 'Research, my happy place.'

I thought this was going to be an easy semester, at least until things started ramping up towards May. Turns out I miscalculated. It hit this week, starting with a Zoom meeting I hadn’t even known was scheduled. This university loves its Zoom meetings (part of that “new normal” privileged people feared during the pandemic…

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YouTubing: Dr. K, Regrets, and Doing Shit to Improve Your Life

A YouTube header image, but it says YerTerb.

Or I’ve Been Doing These Things Before I Knew These Videos Existed, So I’m Ahead of the Game A few days ago, the YouTube algorithm presented Dr. K and his Healthy Gamer videos. I’ve taken a cue from Noble Knight and have started calling myself a hardcore casual gamer, so I don’t really consider myself…

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if (curious) { learnCode(); }

A header image with the following Javascript-liked code: if programmer is confused, search for solutions, programmer look up tutorial, let tutorial version equal five-plus years old, if tutorial version is five-plus years old, console log adjust expectations accordingly, else froth at the mouth, programmer bang head on desk.

It’s my first headache of the year. I must be doing something right if it came so late in January. Schoolwork has been merciful… so far. I’ll enjoy this relative peace while I can because I have a distinct feeling things are going to start getting messy—both offline and online. To keep myself grounded, I’m…

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