I’ve TA’d a couple times for the orientation course for new grad students. My time giving a talk on teaching, I was also Resident Assistant of Graduate Student Housing. I was able to photograph my students who lived on campus as actors for each case. Quiet Smug Minority Foreign Lazy Needy Dramatic Overwhelmed Intense Continue reading
After years of working on a PhD, I’ve realized that my real motivation to go into Computer Science was to understand myself. As a child, I always struggled to answer the question, “how are you?” There was no quick way to capture how I was. Things seemed more black and white for other people than … Continue reading
“At the age of 5, I had a crush on Super Mario…” My personal statement opens with where it all began, playing Mario Bros. New love came in the form of Final Fantasy, and I went through a period in primary school where given the opportunity, I based all creative projects on Final Fantasy 2. … Continue reading
TAing doesn’t sound like much fun when you’re finishing your PhD; however, I have the uniquely fortunate opportunity to TA for Brenda Romero. First, I’ve never seen someone so capable of building the professional character of students so naturally. She is not only a game designer, but so remarkably intelligible such that just about every … Continue reading
I know I keep saying this, but I really have so much going on in life that I don’t ever get to write about. I was sitting in a talk last week called: “The Future of Our Pasts” on digital memory and life-logging (by Steve Whittaker). I asked him about the possibility of isolating several … Continue reading
I tweeted once that I was doing my favorite thing. I work and have become friends with some of the most interesting people I’d ever met. People who dream big, who will go where they need to to find answers, who put in the hard work to make statements worth stating, and produce contributions of … Continue reading
A little over a week ago, I headed over the hill with Marian and Sukhie to attend an event to inspire girls to engage with science and technology, hosted by Microsoft DigiGirls and Barbie. The event consisted of girl scouts, female computer science students, Microsoft representatives, female political figures, and reps from Mattel. Also, there … Continue reading
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