everyday absurdities
Author s note: I opted for LASIK because my eyes were too bad for SMILE, and LASIK was supposed to have a fast and easy recovery. This is my (possibly unconventional, but definitely not easy) story. Day 0: Day of surgery It s not fun. They take you into a room where they put a surgical cap Continue reading LASIK diaries
It s 12:43. I’m at the coffee bar. I sneak behind my coworker-friends and gently kick the back of someone s shoe a callback to an earlier joke where he claimed no one could kick off his shoes. He spins around, glares at me, and we all have a laugh. I order my mocha The Continue reading because writing helps
to code in java is to die under the weight of its boilerplate
*Note: Please read all italicized technical words as if they were in a foreign language. The fall semester of my senior year, I was having some serious self-confidence issues. I had slowly come to realize that I did not, in fact, want to become a researcher. Statistics pained me, and the seemingly endless and fruitless Continue reading How to become a programmer, or the art of Googling well