#mit computer science

Hi Anon! I’m still two years away from graduation, and I feel like I still have a lot to learn about my career options. I know that I enjoy my current internship in data science and machine learning, but I also haven’t really explored other fields, such as software design, electrical engineering, and finance.

I liked my software construction class, 6.005, last semester, so next semester I’m considering taking a web design class as well. At my current internship, we have a software/engineering team that designs the applications that other teams use, so I have a general idea of what they do. I don’t necessarily think that I would enjoy that more than data analysis and teaching my machine to see and talk,  but I think it’s worth trying out possibly.

I did like the electrical engineering parts of my intro to computer science course, which mostly involved building circuits and using currents and voltages to send signals to a program running on the computer. I have this irrational fear that I’ll get shocked really hard if I touch any wire, though, so I’m not sure this path is worth all the stress, haha -_-

Ok, and finally many of my peers who are computer science or math majors choose to go into finance. There are many companies nowadays that combine finance with technology, such as Jane Street, which happens to be a popular choice for MIT students looking for internships and full-time jobs. From what I understand about finance and economics, I don’t think it’s something that I would particularly enjoy doing, but I would like to give it a shot. I will be looking for a finance externship next January, during MIT’s Independent Activities Period (IAP) where students have the month of January free to travel, relax, or work an externship, which is basically a month-long internship.

Code With Me! - random catchphrase generator in Python

If you’ve been wondering what I do all day at my computer, here’s a quick program I wrote yesterday. Everyone who knows me in “real life” is probably tired of hearing me say “cool beans” and this program generates a random catchphrase.

Here’s a step-by-step guide to generating your own cool beans catchphrases.

Open an iPython 2 notebook in Jupyter by clicking on the New tab on the top right, then selecting Python 2.

Copy and paste my base code from my Github.

Press Shift+Enter to run the code! It should output a string, a string of words surrounded by quotation marks. Mine outputs “outstanding peaches.”

Personalize your catchphrase generator!

Make a new catchphrase generator like this:

name_of_generator = catchphrase([”noun_1”, ”noun_2”],[”adjective_1”, ”adjective_2”])

add nouns and adjectives to an existing generator like this:

name_of_generator.add_noun(”noun_3”)

name_of_generator.add_adjective(”adjective_3”)

Generate a new catchphrase like this:

name_of_generator.get_catchphrase()

How it works:

The generator stores a list of nouns and adjectives. Each time you ask it to generate a new catchphrase, it creates two pseudorandom numbers and picks out those elements from the lists, then sticks the adjective in front of the noun and outputs the result.

Adding adjectives and nouns to the generator just adds them to the end of the respective list, and then it outputs a new catchphrase, possibly containing one of the new words.

I hope you enjoyed coding with me! Reblog and put in the tags what you got as your catchphrase! If you have any questions about how the code works, or ways you think I can improve it, send me a message or an ask!

If the links didn’t work for you, you can copy and paste them from here:

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