Something about 3n + 1
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2025
Maintaining a blog for some reason?
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PhD Week 76
Wow, 10 whole weeks since my first post. Hopefully, the long run frequency of my posts will be greater than 0.4 posts/month, but I guess we’ll see. Regardless of frequency, the purpose of these posts as I stated in the original post is to document my life, my thoughts, and the progression of my research. The most significant updates to mention are:
2024
Starting a blog for some reason.
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Why?
I started my PhD program in the Fall of 2023. At this time, I wasn’t sure whether or not I was even qualified to pursue this dream of mine. Only a few weeks prior, I was slogging my way through my final undergraduate course (linear algebra), while failing to resist all the distractions present in my life. In the beginning of my program, I was constantly concerned that I would immediately fail out for one reason or another. Luckily, that did not happen. My lifelong addiction to puzzle-solving fueled me through hundreds of hours of subpar programming, some of which was yielded meaningful, publishable results. The ‘publishable’ part of that would certainly not have been possible without my advisor, Dr. Rickard Ewetz, who against all odds was able to teach me how to write research papers that are both scientifically interesting and academically stylish (at least, in the opinion of some reviewers).