Accidentally in Code

Organization

  • February

    Overall Really good. Feel like I’m making good progress on all my goals! Yay! Get a Great Job So far: Waiting for updated resume to come back. Got offered IBM Extreme Blue Internship! Yay! Next: Finalize resume Send to people who’ve shown an interest Fill in paperwork and get work visa for internship Be a…

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    The Ultimate Productivity Boost

    I checked off everything on the list last week. It wasn’t even down to the line – at 1400h on Friday all that was left was one kickboxing class. I hung out, caught up on some reading, watched an episode of Scrubs and then went out for dinner. And I thought about how it was…

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    The Roles We Play

    There’s an exercise in 7 Habits where you have to list your different “roles” and  things you need to do for each of them. Here are mine (in no particular order): Grad student Teaching Assistant Ski instructor President of WISE Job seeker Girlfriend Daughter Friend Skier Kickboxer Workshop creator Programmer Nice (i.e. helping other people)…

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  • Week in Brief

    For this week: Ski instructing Put together slides for talk for Thursday Give talk Interview (another) Fill in forms for resume rewrite Meeting RE resume WISE Workshop event Help G with website Kickbox 3 times Start Assignment 1 for Testing course Read 9 papers Finish workshop proposal Yay! Everything crossed off and I’ve got on…

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  • Week in Brief

    Finish paper and submit Proctoring and Marking Ski instructoring Interview Meeting RE resume Career fair thing Skiing – knee is hurting again :’( Buy outfit for interview Go to spa – why did I think I had time for this?! Relax – read book Have fun! Work out lots – kickboxed twice Get on top…

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  • Week in Brief

    Outline Paper Write paper – sent draft to supervisors! Hopefully doesn’t need too much more work. Ski instructing Ski training – had a lesson when training was on :'( Kickbox twice and Gym twice – gave up, hurt my back skiing and so overwhelmed by paper. WISE Inspiring Women event CATAWIT event Marking Deal with…

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    Simple Steps that Reduced my Bounce Rate

    Given that my current project is all about engagement, it’s probably not surprising that I’m more focused on engagement with my website than number of hits. Here’s my SEO strategy: write content, post regularly, give pages different names, insert images properly. That’s it. However the bounce rate is more interesting – that’s the number of…

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  • Week in Brief

    This week: IBM Case Study Competition Ski Instructing Ski training (yay!) – long story, but didn’t happen :'( Finish Science Teacher Talk Write up proposal. Write up two pages outlining work so far. Meeting with supervisors. – really great meeting, very inspired afterwards. Working on paper, needs to be done for next week. Marking. Kickbox…

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  • January

    Overall How’s this month been? I’ve made progress on my work, but not as much as I want to. I’m doing more exercise, but not as much as I want to. In all, I guess things are going okay. Not great, but not bad either. Everything is still possible. For February, I think it’s just…

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