reading Aaron Roth’s notes on calibration by candlelight bc PECO decided to do electrical maintenance from 10pm to 6am

my PhD advisors (both Greeks) told me that “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” is extremely accurate and recommended I watch it. I finished my PSET early, so I guess I know what I’m doing with my Saturday night

something I find really difficult about being in the first year of a phd is knowing how hard anything is supposed to be. I read all these learning theory papers it takes SO much effort and I feel out of my depth and dumb all the time 🙃📈📉

Professor about our pset: “…so the extra credit, either you have pepto bismol or booze around, or maybe both!”

the electricity on my block went out the night of my pset deadline? the world can’t stand to see a girlboss winning

my undergraduate women in economics student org at berkeley recently updated their website but they still have a 2020 (prepandemic!) group photo of our exec board at the time 🥺 it feels so long ago!

doing my 📈📉phd is an just permanent oscillation between “everything is constrained optimization☺️” and “everything is constrained optimization😟”

my toxic not-like-other-girls trait is that among computer scientists, I say I’m an economist, and among economists, I say I’m a computer scientist. In reality I’m not that great at either 😎 📈📉

I got my first free UPenn clothing item today!!

they say be kind to yourself, but its pretty hard to be nice to someone who's still crying about linear algebra at the big age of 24

[tw predoc discourse] a month into my CS phd, I feel v happy about having done an econ predoc (@ booth). Given the expectation in my CS program to immediately start projects, I feel grateful to have learned so much about being a competent researcher. shout out to my UChicago PI 🥰
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people have asked me about this irl and I do *not* need an intervention! this is a picture from my time at uchicago, I don't drink more than one monster a week now 😎

absolutely addicted to using the phrase "academic baddie"

you may not like it, but this is what peak academic performance looks like

nothing makes me, as a phd student, feel more supported than being told I can order up to $1k worth of equipment LOL🥰🤩🤗 32-inch monitor yay!!!