Presentation
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10 Things I Learned About Presenting in Extreme Blue
→: 10 Things I Learned About Presenting in Extreme BlueYou can distill a 15 week project to a 4 minute pitch. In fact, you can probably distill anything to 4 minutes if you truly understand it – the trick is learning what to leave out. Images are trickier than you think. For instance, our project involved a university and we wanted to have a…
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My Secret Life as an Introvert
→: My Secret Life as an IntrovertMy friend Maggie tells me I’m an introvert. Not because I’m shy, or because large groups make me nervous, but because I don’t get my energy from being around people. I was surprised by this, because I guess I’ve always considered myself to be extroverted and so I asked another close friend and he said…
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Extreme Blue
→: Extreme BlueOne of my closest friends works at another large tech company, and all summer we’ve been having conversations that go like this: ME: I’ve had such an awesome day! I found out about this awesome thing and made some progress on my awesome project. I love my job! How was yours? HIM: Good! I finally…
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When Excellent is Adequate, Nothing is Ever Good Enough
→: When Excellent is Adequate, Nothing is Ever Good EnoughI have the dubious distinction of being the intern, who on my self evaluation, had the biggest (positive) different between how my team rated me, and how I rated myself. I gave myself all average marks, bar one (initiative, +1). My 3 teammates evaluated me, and I only had one average mark, total, so I…
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#GGDOttawa: Art, Life and Programming
→: #GGDOttawa: Art, Life and ProgrammingWhen I was doing my undergrad in Edinburgh, in around my second year, I was at a ceilidh, and a guy asked me out on a date. And I said, “sure”. Then, he asked my roommate if I was single, which was a little bizarre. And finally, he tried to “get to know me”. We…
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Awesome Foundation, Education, Extreme Blue, inspiration, job hunting, Presentation, Reflections, Skiing
Inside and Outside My Comfort Zone
→: Inside and Outside My Comfort ZoneThe other day, I had a phone interview for quite possibly my dream job. With the encouragement of my mentors and friends I was feeling good about it, and going for it, until a few hours before when I was practically vibrating with fear. I don’t know how it went. I definitely didn’t connect with…
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Upcoming Talk
→: Upcoming TalkI’m super excited that I’ve been asked to speak at the next Girl Geek Dinner. I have a couple of talks prepared and so the plan is to modify one of them – the underlying theme to everything I’ve been talking about (and doing) lately is about how technology is changing things, and how can…