May 20
Doing that thing where you keep stacking books relevant to your topic and hoping that once your stack gets tall enough the answers will be revealed to you. This will be my tower of Babylon
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Doing that thing where you keep stacking books relevant to your topic and hoping that once your stack gets tall enough the answers will be revealed to you. This will be my tower of Babylon
Tuesday, June 18th
I started my summer research position this Monday, and am supper excited to get going. I’m working in a lab I’ve worked with before so expecting a smooth transition.
To dos for the summer also involve writing my senior thesis and my grad school applications! A lot of writing for someone who hates writing, but oh well.
applying to a summer research program i am def underqualified for but !! yep ! overachiever things !
Summer research work is in full swing and I'm starting to enjoy myself more after initially being a little bored lol. I've finished a short course in R, currently in biostatistics, and soon will begin an epidemiology short course. My research project group is super chill, super supportive, and they are so friendly and fun to work with. My favorite part of it all though? The creative freedom they've given me (folium library in python above) to use and do whatever I think is cool and looks cool even if they have no programming experience and can't really help me troubleshoot. So, it helps me learn even more because I have to thoroughly explain my own thinking and how the code works, fundamentally.
I'm also almost finished with a machine learning online course on the side, and holy cow I've learned so much with that! Self-learning is incredible, and in my opinion sometimes it's more effective than a formal course in higher education. Coding demands being creative as much as it does being knowledgeable and I think I've found a passion that allows me the flexibility to dive into so many different topics and fields, allows me to learn new skills virtually anywhere and in any format, allows me to flex my creativity muscles, and have very nice-paying job prospects. I know it shouldn't be about the money, but in my situation, these student loans aren't going to pay themselves so I gotta do what I gotta do.
The end goal to all of this is gaining some badass unique skills to showcase and use on my PhD applications (and after) that I'll be starting within the next few months. I'm nervous, excited, and everything in between.
my abstract for research
Learning to adapt to speech is a challenge for cochlear implant (CI) patients because the acoustic signal transmitted through the implant contains limited acoustic information. Focused training before a sleep period has been previously shown to promote learning of novel speech signals. The current study aims to determine the role of sleep on adapting to degraded speech signals, like that transmitted through the CI. Two groups of normal-hearing listeners will complete training of degraded speech signals in the morning or evening and return for testing 12 hours (after a period of sleep for evening group and a period of wakefulness for morning group) and 24 hours later. All participants completed a sleep questionnaire. We hypothesize that listeners trained in proximity to sleep will show greater benefit of training compared to listeners trained further away from a sleep interval. This study lays the foundation for customizing rehabilitation for patients using CIs.
May 30th, 2020
Saturdays are happy days! I hope everyone’s week has been good and productive! I have been chugging along on my summer research project, and yesterday was even my birthday! I’ve got more research to do this week, and a bunch of small little productive tasks, and if you have the same, you’ve got this!
7.27.18 Today is the last day of research, and I’m just brushing up on the famous “To Be or Not To Be” Soliloquy. It’s been a good summer!! I think I’ve found my passion!!
Graduation
This is it! Im walkin today at my undergrad ceremony for my Bachelor’s in Geoscience! This is weird, the four years didn’t feel fast at all and I’m glad. I had a lot of fun and met so many cool people here, I can’t wait to keep going through the summer and see how fall will end up!