risdreamer

studyblr. cs major. seeking my great perhaps.

[earthysuggestion]

if something makes you go ’!!!!’ inside it’s worth keeping around

[limestyle]

“If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.” — Woody Allen

[procrastinationlikeapro]

20.08.2018 so i guess i’m a summer studyblr now 🌻

[risdreamer]

2.23.20 i’ve got two midterms coming up in the next week! however, i’m finding it hard to stay motivated. lately, i’ve been much more excited to work on my personal projects than to do my actual schoolwork–which is nice, because i have something to look forward to every day, but also not nice, when I realize i’ve studied less than two hours the past week for a *very* important core class.

i’m just trying to convince myself that these courses are pieces of the master plan on my way to being a light hacker,,, or  an indie game developer,, or something very neat. thinking always of the future. two weeks until spring break. 

[hundondestiny]

This idea that you are harming, destroying, wasting, or like otherwise abusing books by dog-earing the pages, highlighting things, writing on them, etc. is really whack and makes no sense and literally no one should be beholden to it when they own books.

Literally every single humanities/social science teacher or professor I’ve ever had has books that are covered with sticky tabs and notes in all the margins. Books are meant to be enjoyed. You make a book yours by covering it with your thoughts.

That’s just a part of reading. I don’t know why there’s this aversion to enjoying them but like... books are t decorative. Who are you “preserving” them for by not leaving marks on them?

write in your books!

[risdreamer]

2.11.20 this week has been good to me. today I had a few hours of leisure time, after finishing my systems programming pset two days early(!) i had time to think about the vr project i’m developing for my work as a member of the immersive media club. i also fiddled around with some pixel art and filled out four internship apps. summer-wise, i’m getting a little desperate to find something that works for me. i’m trying to be patient with the designs of the universe. 

also -- I’m trying to start and be more committed to personal projects, including keeping up with a sort of tech blog to document my progress and make resources available to others. i’m also relearning to be curious, to let myself guide my learning rather than the institution, to be generous with my knowledge, and to be healthy. i’m liking the extra leisure  time i’ve programmed into my life this semester, and the reflection it’s allowed me to do on my life. 

wishing you all the best.

[risdreamer]

real cs major tears

[espressofleur]

Friendly reminder that you don’t have to wait until the weekends to live and enjoy your life. Go to your favorite coffee shop after school, call your friend, bake cookies on a Wednesday afternoon, dance around in your underwear. Your life is yours to live and you shouldn’t put it on hold because of work or school.

[marscia]

things to do alone

read that novel you’ve always wanted to start reading

watch a movie, and i don’t mean watch a movie on netflix, actually go to the cinema on your own. thank me later

start a blog

take a walk

browse bookstores, even if you’re not going to buy anything (if you’ll be able to resist the temptation of buying a book). just surround yourself with literature

brew yourself some tea or coffee, whichever you prefer

listen to classical music and absorb it, don’t do anything else, just sit there and listen to it

pick up a magazine, ditch online magazines for a while, go for the print

go to a museum

explore cooking or baking

watch the sunset

take a long, warm bath

[oystertongue]

PhD PROGRAM ALIGNMENT CHART

tag urself I'm in the terrible hinterlands between lawful weird and chaotic normie

[phd-in-prog]

Wow this is amazing

Chaotic applied calling in, how did they do this

[risdreamer]

i feel like im moving towards chaotic weird as an undergrad but aspiring neutral applied 

[risdreamer]

2.4.20 day of the dramatic skies

-- today i made progress on my module 1 readings for systems, and I managed to pass a few more test cases on my pset! in the afternoon i went to algos lecture, which was v confusing and made me realize i need to keep up with that class’s readings. 

looking forward to a productive pset worksesh with my friends tonight. also waiting to hear back from a fellowship this week regarding my summer plans... keeping my fingers crossed. 

[sunpdf]

“Attention is the beginning of devotion.”

marguerite duras // maggie smith // mary oliver // jeanette winterson, written on the body

[risdreamer]

thinking of what it means to live with love. and also that i should reread mrs. dalloway

[rosewater1997]

Love all my sensitive girls who make the most mundane things seem vastly more intimate and romantic

[risdreamer]

2.2.2020 this week did not go so well as the last-- i had three problem sets to complete, and because of our initial add/drop period i hadn’t settled into my schedule until a week into classes, so i started homework very late. as a result I  rushed my systems pset, which ended up looking like some half-baked hackathon code. i still managed  to pass 31/35 of the public test cases, but the other 25 private test cases don’t look so hot for me right now. what’s good is that we have the option of dropping our lowest pset grade in the class-- for me, it’ll probably, hopefully, be this one. after rushing through systems, i also didn’t have much time for algos, so I had to write that up in one night, getting to a grade of about passing. stats went *much* better,  as most of that class is  review from my previous stats course.

anyhow, i plan on being much more proactive with my psets from now on. one  thing i’m  really enjoying is psetting as a group with my friends, in different parts of campus than i usually hang out in. here’s a common room of a different res college, pictured above.

in terms of other things this week, it was pretty quiet. not much  brain energy left after 16/7 psetting! i did watch the finale of the good place and cry, a lot. and i drank plenty of tea #hydrateordiedrate

[risdreamer]

ah... the green...

cathartic.

(not  pictured: the 4 public test cases i didn’t pass, the 25 private test cases that are not looking so hot for me, the 5% per late day penalty x 4 late days so far. boy if i  pass this class, i’ll be so happy)

[sword-and-stars]

In other news, I watched The Good Place finale last night and I am still not fucking okay.

[risdreamer]

1.29.20 throwback to when my schedule looked like left and not right lol