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Grief, Iāve learned, is really just love. Itās all the love you want to give but cannot. All of that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.
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Highlighting women engineers and breaking stereotypes one story at a time
wogrammer is looking for paid journalism fellows! I did this program last year and it was an awesome time, yāall. you get to talk to cool women in engineering and highlight their stories :)
THE DEETS:
Application Deadline: Sunday, April 15, 2018
Fellowship term: May 1, 2018 to July 31, 2018 (3 months)
Compensation: $1500, which will be paid within 2 weeks of the fellowship start date.
Fellow will write 10 stories by the end of the fellowship term.
Stories will be published on wogrammerās Medium page and promoted on various social media properties.
Work where you feel comfortable (provide services remotely).
i had my advising appointment today and tbh iām a little terrified
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heyo! iāve been trash about updating this blog (if ever), but updates:
-ya girl is now a sophomore in college (wtf)
-declared computer science, toying around w possible minors, study abroad, research
-taking automata, adv data structures, computer architecture, data journalism, linear algebra, conversational spanish
-i canāt believe two years ago i was a terrified college snr unsure of where iād even be for school, let alone what i would be majoring in
-i think i really really really would like to go to grad school and steep myself!!!! in!!!!!!!! academia!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yup! itās week three and iām already staying up until three am but mostly i need to manage my time better!!!
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of āThe Sympathizerā explains how creative writing seminars can work against people who donāt come from the mainstream.
āAs an institution, the workshop reproduces its ideology, which pretends that āhow, don't tellā is universal when it is, in fact, the expression of a particular population, the white majority, typically at least middle-class and often, but not exclusively, male. The identity behind the workshop's origins is invisible. Like all privileges, this identity is unmarked until it is thrown into relief against that which is marked, visible and outspoken, which is to say me and others like me.
But what is that art that is also political, historical, theoretical, ideological and philosophical? How is it to be taught? It must be taught not only as an isolated craft or a set of techniques. It must be taught in relation to, or within, courses on history, politics, theory and philosophy, as well as ethnic studies, gender studies, queer studies and cultural studies.ā
+ Iāve never attended a writing workshop myself so @cambridreams what do you think of this?
Dear Asian kids of the SGV: Sometimes I go into local boba shops and overhear your conversations and it gives me great pause, to hear you stressed over AP courses and how many of them you should...
Early adulthood is about acquiring skills and crazy experiences. Learn how to cook Chinese food. Weave a tapestry. Be skilled in archery. Grow tea. Start spearfishing. Build a chair from scratch. Start taking dance classes. Be a fire spinner. Whatever makes you think "goddamn that is AWESOME." Look outside of what is being marketed to you. You don't need to know how to code, to be unique. Success is not necessarily securing funding for your start-up. Trust me.
...
Do not base your life around being rich and wealthy. From a mental health standpoint, the allures of money are not sustainable and seeking to constantly gain will trap you in a forever rat race, pursing the arbitrary concept of "enough."
Stop viewing your life as a competition. Those goal markers our sub-culture has set up for us are merely illusions and built out of fear, because generally speaking, war, poverty, and trauma were recent realities in our family trees. Understand that context, but don't subscribe to it. A life lived in fear and based on scarcity is a life well wasted.
Read the essay about learning English that won her a place at every single Ivy
In our house, English is not English. Not in the phonetic sense, like short a is for apple, but rather in the pronunciation ā in our house, snake is snack. Words do not roll off our tongues correctly ā yet I, who was pulled out of class to meet with language specialists, and my mother from Malaysia, who pronounces film as flim, understand each other perfectly.
In our house, there is no difference between cast and cash, which was why at a church retreat, people made fun of me for ācashing out demons.ā I did not realize the glaring difference between the two Englishes until my teacher corrected my pronunciations of hammock, ladle, and siphon. Classmates laughed because I pronounce accept as except, success as sussess. I was in the Creative Writing conservatory, and yet words failed me when I needed them most.
Suddenly, understanding flower is flour wasnāt enough. I rejected the English that had never seemed broken before, a language that had raised me and taught me everything I knew. Everybody elseās parents spoke with accents smarting of Ph.D.s and university teaching positions. So why couldnāt mine?
My mother spread her sunbaked hands and said, āThis is where I came from,ā spinning a tale with the English she had taught herself.
When my mother moved from her village to a town in Malaysia, she had to learn a brand new language in middle school: English. In a time when humiliation was encouraged, my mother was defenseless against the cruel words spewing from the teacher, who criticized her paper in front of the class. When she began to cry, the class president stood up and said, āThatās enough.ā
āBe like that class president,ā my mother said with tears in her eyes. The class president took her under her wing and patiently mended my motherās strands of language. āShe stood up for the weak and used her words to fight back.ā
We were both crying now. My mother asked me to teach her proper English so old white ladies at Target wouldnāt laugh at her pronunciation. It has not been easy. There is a measure of guilt when I sew her letters together. Long vowels, double consonants ā I am still learning myself. Sometimes I let the brokenness slide to spare her pride but perhaps I have hurt her more to spare mine.
As my motherās vocabulary began to grow, I mended my own English. Through performing poetry in front of 3000 at my schoolās Season Finale event, interviewing people from all walks of life, and writing stories for the stage, I stand against ignorance and become a voice for the homeless, the refugees, the ignored. With my words I fight against jeers pelted at an old Asian street performer on a New York subway. My motherās eyes are reflected in underprivileged ESL children who have so many stories to tell but do not know how. I fill them with words as they take needle and thread to make a tapestry.
In our house, there is beauty in the way we speak to each other. In our house, language is not broken but rather bursting with emotion. We have built a house out of words. There are friendly snakes in the cupboard and snacks in the tank. It is a crooked house. It is a little messy. But this is where we have made our home.
this essay took my breath away
A Masterpost of Random Knowledge
want to learn some random things that donāt require months of work and lessons? if yes, here are some suggestions for your next 3am google searches:
Home & Lifestyle
read wash care symbols correctly
knitting, crocheting, sewing
tie a tie in various styles
how to set a table
braiding styles
calculate which day a specific date will fall on
napkin folding techniques
how to greet the queen
Arts
read sheet music
lists of oscar winners and nominees
how to use IPAĀ
paint types
art history periods, their characteristics and major artists
classical music composers by era
learn the circle of fifths
learn morse code
Food and Drink
crack an egg one-handed
how to make your own bread
how to make your ownĀ pasta
types of dough
herbs and what they look like
herbs and spices in the kitchen
varieties of applesĀ and their names
how to taste wine
NatureĀ
bones in the human body
organs and where they are
categorisation of plants
identifyĀ mushroomsĀ
types of rocks
identify bird songs
explore the solar systemĀ
spot constellations
dynamic periodic table
Travel & Sports
how to tie sailing knots
countries and their capital cities/currencies
IATA airport codes
traffic signs
time zones
rules for football/american football
golf etiquetteĀ
figure skating jumps
swimming strokes
olympic summer and winter sports
rules for poker, bridge, chess
History
12 labours of Heracles
interactive tour of the travels of Odysseus
Roman emperors
English monarchs
Chinese dynasties
Greek gods
the 7 wonders of the ancient world
The New York Times got a copy of a draft executive order from the Trump administration proposing to bring back CIA black sites and torture techniques. Beyond the disturbing nature of the proposal itself, the document is interesting because it shows both original text and subsequent edits. Here, I pulled out two specific examples of how the Trump administration explicitly tailors itās language towards nationalist and mutedly Islamophobic demagoguery:
-Replacing āour Nationā with āour homelandā -Replacing āglobal war on terrorismā with āfight against radical Islamismā
You should all definitely check out the article, along with the document itself.
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keep fighting the good fight, friends.
hey guys psa regarding hospital bills
donāt just pay it. do not automatically pay the hospital bill when you receive it. call your health insurance provider and POLITELY say, āexcuse me, i just received a bill for $1200 for my hospital visit/ER visit/etc., is that the correct amount iām supposed to pay?ā because hospitals bill you before your health insurance and they willĀ take your money no matter how the amount due may change based on your health insurance looking at it. 90% of the time, if your health insurance is in any way involved in the payment of that bill, you do not have to pay as much as the hospital is billing you for. call your health insurance provider first, and POLITELY request clarification, always remember that the person you are talking to is human and this is just their job, and then you will very likely find out you actually only owe $500.
donāt shout at anyone about it, donāt get mad, just understand that this is The Way Things Are right now and call your health insurance provider before paying the bill your hospital just sent you. thereās a chance the hospital bill might be correct, true, but call your health insurance provider.
THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT. after my car accident last year the hospital billed me ~$8000. They sent me letters asking me to pay, and I called them back saying my insurance was processing the claim. This is also what I told the collection agency when they kept calling me about the $1000 emergency room fee (billed separately from the hospital fee, mind you). Once everything got straightened out, all I was actually liable for was my $200 emergency copay.
!!!!!!! things my ass didnāt know !!!!!!!!
Yes this is a life lesson my adulting ass didnāt know I needed and Iām out 80 bucks for an anti-nausea pill. ššššš
Coding Masterpost
Hey buddies guess what??
Iāve brought you some awesome links that I have for learning how to code, computer science posts, and also various things about hacking. :p
CODING / COMPUTER SCIENCE
www.udemy.com
The best free and paid classes on the web. This is my go to site for learning something new.
app.pluralsight.com
$40 a month but the courses are top tier. You might find a free trial from microsoft dev essentialsā¦
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
Free MIT courses with video lectures, notes, and resources!!!
https://www.codecademy.com/learn
Perhaps the most famous site for learning how to code, this is must have for any aspiring computer scientist, web dev, or programmer. A smooth UI, dozens of courses, APIs, and fun quizzes if you decide to cough up a bit of money. $19 is crazy dirt cheap compared to some $200 courses out there on the web.
https://thenewboston.com/
Dubbed by its creator as the social network for programmers, TNB is a hotbed of hundreds of video tutorials for programming and computer science, as well as other disciplines like cooking.
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/codingground.htm
Another crazy important site for anyone serious about programming. You can find online terminals, IDEs, and tutorials for almost every popular language out there, from oCaml to lisp
http://codecombat.com/
Geared towards children, this is a good introudction to programming thinking and helps a younger audience get into the problem solving mindset.
http://www.codewars.com/dashboard
For users with some coding experience, codewars offers hundreds of challenges in various languages and help them build up their skills. Perfect for intermediate to master programmers.
https://www.codingame.com/start
This site is a bit geared towards new coders, itās still fun and helps a ton in developing confidence.
http://jonisalonen.com/
Random blog that discusses some concepts regarding computer science. Worth a read if youāre ever lost and wanna just reflect on something.
http://howtonetwork.net/
https://www.howtonetwork.com/
Both the old and new sites are still up and provide their services for learning IT skills.
http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/
RESOURCES FOR COMPILERS, DATABASES, FORUMS, and SO MUCH MORE TAKE A LOOK.
http://www.hloom.com/modern-resume-templates/
What good is a programmer if they canāt make a good resume to show off their skills? With these helpful templates you can impress your potential employer.
http://freecomputerbooks.com/
I havenāt used this so be cautious. Has a lot of ebooks.
http://i.imgur.com/i3jtrA0.jpg
Web development cheat sheet.
http://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=626170
Awesome intro to programming with links to projects.
http://www.elithecomputerguy.com/
Eli has a blog and also videos for various things.
http://www.net130.com/ccie/tech/Sybex%20-%20Cisco%20CCIE%20Book.pdf
CCIE book. Not sure if itās open source. Iāll remove this link if requested.
https://www.codeschool.com/
pay money, learn to code. seems legit.
http://www.python-forum.org/
A forum for Python usrers! There are only a few sections but there are enough posts on here so if you haev a question, it might have already been asked.
http://www.dreamincode.net/
Another sweet forum that covers multiple topics.
http://forums.devshed.com/
A really popular forum! Lots of languages and users, dozens of topics.
http://www.codingforums.com/
Another large forum, perfect for any use.
http://www.programmingforums.org/
A freaking large factory of forums you will never find the same post twice.
http://www.gamedev.net/page/index.html
Lots of forums, jobs, and helpful resources all geared towards game development.
http://stackoverflow.com/
The most famous one imo. Be wary friend, donāt let your CS teacher find this in your browser history.
http://forum.codecall.net/
Resources, forums, tutorials, blow yourself out here.
https://openhatch.org/
Has some training missions and other stuff. Helps you find projects to work on.
https://codefights.com/
Put your skills to the test against AI or humans.
www.datacamp.com
Like big data? Well this site teaches you Python, the numpy library, and R.
https://www.edx.org/
Full of courses for anything.
http://www.exactas.org/modules/UpDownload/store_folder/1_-_COMPUTACION/Jonathan%20Bartlett%20-%20Programming%20From%20The%20Ground%20Up.pdf
handy book on progrmaming.
HACKING
http://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/
This is one of the BEST websites to learn about security and you can follow tutorials by real hackers and members of the IT field. With a strong community full of experienced authors, you will either flourish by using proper grammar or be mocked for asking āhow do i hack gmail??ā
www.hackerhighschool.org/home.html
PERFECT FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS INTERESTED IN CYBERSECURITY BUT HAVE NO IDEA WHERE TO START. I CANNOT STRESS HOW AWESOME THIS SITE IS.
allison.com
ANOTHER PERFECT SITE FOR LEARNING ANYTHING
http://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/links-help-you-hacking-0162359/
Small collection of resources for educating yourself on internet security.
http://directory.umm.ac.id/Networking%20Manual/Networking%20For%20Dummies%207%20Ed%202004.pdf
A must read for anyone with a desire to get into IT
http://cli.learncodethehardway.org/book/
Crash course on Command line.
https://www.cybrary.it/
Great if you cannot afford pricy online classes. Instructors know what they are talking about and despite a few poor quality videos, you will be supplied with helpful resources and forums.
https://evilzone.org/
One of the better forums out there for learning. Delve into it at your own risk.
https://v3rmillion.net/
ROBLOX hacking, general exploits, or just normal discussions. Roblox helped put me on my path to coding and I love how every day, millions of kids are being taught the ability of coding thanks to its studio.
https://www.hackthissite.org/pages/index/index.php
Lessons, challenges, forums, and resources all bundled in a site to hone your pentest skills.
http://www.enigmagroup.org/
Like hackthissite, but with a different UI
https://www.hellboundhackers.org/
Read the above
https://pentest-tools.com/home
Free pentest tools. Donāt use it for anything wrong.
https://www.defcon.org/
Hehe..we are in defcon 4..
https://picoctf.com/learn
Capture the Flag learning site. Amazing imo.
http://overthewire.org/wargames/
Another war games site. You get various challenges that are fun to solve ^.^
http://hakipedia.com/index.php/Hakipedia
Wikipedia but for security.
http://smashthestack.org/
Wargames.
http://www.wablab.com/
Compete against IT pros. Git rekt code-bug
http://academy.ehacking.net/courses/computer-hacking-forensics-investigation/
Explore this site a bit.
https://www.ethicalhacker.net/features/book-reviews/the-basics-of-rootkits-leave-no-trace
The link kinda gives it away.
https://github.com/mrrrgn/simple-rootkit/blob/master/README.md
Fun little project.
http://www.fuzzysecurity.com/tutorials.html
Professional blog that has tutorials and highly detailed information.
https://www.corelan.be/index.php/2009/07/19/exploit-writing-tutorial-part-1-stack-based-overflows/
Ahh read the above please!
https://trailofbits.github.io/ctf/index.html
A CTF guide. Pretty well written and has slides. Awesome resources. What else can I say?
http://www.securitysift.com/windows-exploit-development-part-1-basics/
Another swell blog.
http://www.thegreycorner.com/2010/01/beginning-stack-based-buffer-overflow.html
Woa..another..awesome blog..there are too many to count!
http://www.flexhex.com/docs/howtos/hex-editing.phtml
Hey kid? Wanna learn how to hex edit like a b0ss?
https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-03/bh-us-03-willis-c/bh-us-03-willis.pdf
Nice little pdf for forensics.
www.greyhathacker.net
A blog thatās a bit dated but has useful information.
xeuhack.com
Dated but useful blog.
www.cybersecuritycourse.co
havenāt tried this yet but it has great reviews.
www.censys.io
Search engine for data scientists.
http://www.techexams.net/forums/off-topic/51719-best-security-websites.html
Best sites to learn from.
http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/ebooks/
Awww yiss ebooks
http://bookboon.com/en/it-programming-ebooks
Might run into errors downloading books.
http://ebook-dl.com/
Full books that are virus free.
Thatās all for now! Special thanks to everyone who suggested I make this!
day 1 // 11.16.16 // #f16finals (~new~ month-long countdown series)
Howdy folks! My first semester of freshman year in college (!!!!) is winding down. My semester ends exactly a month from today, 11/16/16, which means that dead week, and finals week are coming up in a little under a month. More happily though, I will be on a plane to beautiful, sunny CALIFORNIA <3Ā
In the effort to stay sane/ avoid burnout while 1) studying for finals 2) applying for internships 2.5) figuring out this adulting thing 3) counting down the days until I get to go home, Iām going to attempt posting every day with updates of study/life progress to hopefully keep me accountable/motivated to finish the semester strong. Welcome aboard, and feel free to do something similar if youād like! :^)
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Todayās a lilā stressful because everything is seemingly due today/tomm!! Thanksgiving is next week and in all honesty, Iām contemplating whether or not to roadtrip to and stay with friends in Seattle, vs staying in rural eastern Washington, which would be a really nice week to decompress and catch up on work/ reevaluate priorities.
CS is so much fun but a ton of work as well ā I have to remind myself that the best code has the least lines, so everything Iām learning right now will be streamlined and more efficientā¦eventually. Probably going to resubmit some assignments for more points because our TA is allowing us to! And I want that foundation. And I want to be better ā Iām doing well and so pleasantly surprised by that, and so now Iād like to ~~da best I can be~~ which is corny AF LOL
Feeling like Iāve unlocked a new level of Spanish now that Iāve learned all the tenses askdfjsaldfjasflk Iām so stoked for next semesterās advanced convo/writing class n_n
The future is exciting! And full of debugging and caffeine and proofs and papers! But Iām so happy to be able to explore my interests and challenge my thinking/beliefs rah rah rah (Iām also hyped up on red bull, so pardon my idealism)
HAHA omg Iām trash I never followed up with this but I did end up roadtripping to Seattle it was so beautiful :āO then grinded the three weeks after that with finals and was very happy with my grades this semester on top of the people I met and the activities I participated in outside of class :ā) college has been kind to me in ways I wouldnāt expect it to and I am learning and growing and so excited to see where else this journey takes me.
( 03.10.16, 34 days to finals )
making bullet journal spreads is time-consuming, but very cathartic. in the midst of applying for colleges, and procrastinatingĀ studying for finals, itās comforting to know that at least my october spread is nice and warm
let yourself restĀ sticker by @thearialligraphyproject | mountain illus by my lovely classmate!Ā
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my study moods
Tired but still going: eyes twitching, didn't sleep more than two hours last night (or not at all), "I can study a little bit more, it's okay"
Not today: opens book, reads a word, sighs, closes book
Doing a lot, learning a little: drinks 7 liters of coffee while listening to someone explain magnetic fields (even through I'm taking notes on biology), thinking about my to do list
The procrastinator: "I know I have like 36 chapters for tomorrow but I suddenly have this urge to research about aromatherapy"
Time traveling: studies for nine hours straight, "when did the sun go down?"
Inverse pomodoro: very proud because I wrote like two sentences, time to take a four hours break
Hate/love relationship: "I hate this subject" I mumble as I keep studying it
day 1 // 11.16.16 // #f16finals (~new~ month-long countdown series)
Howdy folks! My first semester of freshman year in college (!!!!) is winding down. My semester ends exactly a month from today, 11/16/16, which means that dead week, and finals week are coming up in a little under a month. More happily though, I will be on a plane to beautiful, sunny CALIFORNIA <3Ā
In the effort to stay sane/ avoid burnout while 1) studying for finals 2) applying for internships 2.5) figuring out this adulting thing 3) counting down the days until I get to go home, Iām going to attempt posting every day with updates of study/life progress to hopefully keep me accountable/motivated to finish the semester strong. Welcome aboard, and feel free to do something similar if youād like! :^)
__________________
Todayās a lilā stressful because everything is seemingly due today/tomm!! Thanksgiving is next week and in all honesty, Iām contemplating whether or not to roadtrip to and stay with friends in Seattle, vs staying in rural eastern Washington, which would be a really nice week to decompress and catch up on work/ reevaluate priorities.
CS is so much fun but a ton of work as well --- I have to remind myself that the best code has the least lines, so everything Iām learning right now will be streamlined and more efficient...eventually. Probably going to resubmit some assignments for more points because our TA is allowing us to! And I want that foundation. And I want to be better --- Iām doing well and so pleasantly surprised by that, and so now Iād like to ~~da best I can be~~ which is corny AF LOL
Feeling like Iāve unlocked a new level of Spanish now that Iāve learned all the tenses askdfjsaldfjasflk Iām so stoked for next semesterās advanced convo/writing class n_n
The future is exciting! And full of debugging and caffeine and proofs and papers! But Iām so happy to be able to explore my interests and challenge my thinking/beliefs rah rah rah (Iām also hyped up on red bull, so pardon my idealism)
