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15.04.26

another sunny day, and i pulled myself to complete 2 units.

5.3.2026 - 1/100 days of productivity

Finally going to hop on the 100 days of productivity trend, I need so badly a rigid system keeping me accountable. My worst habit right now is setting (perhaps too ambitious) daily to-do lists and finishing nothing on them, so hopefully posting here every single day and seeing either my victories or failures will motivate me to be more productive.

I’m afraid it’s a classic case of senioritis - I know I’ll be out of school for a year after this semester’s done and my brain’s battling me to check out of the productive student mode. Really not ok considering there’s two whole months left 😭 normally this happens only around finals

I think it’ll be quite satisfying seeing the checked off lists on here so I really hope this is my saving grace. Alas, for today:

Hunt down and find green lasers among the undergrad labs (whoever’s hidden them from me count your days)

Make sure microcontroller code works with new lasers or tweak if needed ahead of meeting

[19/6/26] long time no post! i made it through exams (well, i sure hope i passed. everyone pray for me) and now i have so much to do and nothing to do again.

im working on my dissertation which is like statistical mechanics and complexity science-- so smth i know nothing about. i used the special topics summer school as an excuse last week, but i also have weekly meetings with my undergrad group bc papers are so hard and i hate collider analysis. the postdoc is pulling a lot of the weight rn but i really should get my shit together.

but i wanna have fuuuuun. its so sunny outside i wanna froliccccc. fuck grinding in the libraryyyyyy.

09/04/2026 🌱☀️

☆ The sun came back! ☆

2026-05-13

These past few weeks have been a little crazy, to say the least. Recent accomplishments include giving a guest lecture and reviewing a paper. I survived my PhD yearly progress meeting, and even came out of it feeling generally better about prospects (and had fun ranting about bad note-taking habits of our collaboration with my advisor). I'm done with teaching for the semester, and I have this summer to plan for job applications this fall.

Accomplishments so far this week

Daily coworking meetings

Researched Milky Way lensing

Compared different images and object measurements

Lab group meeting

Figured out how to submit measurement algorithm on other computing system

Started another computing job only to have it fail in a spectacular, though informative, manner

Working Group meeting

TA final grade meeting

Grad student general meeting

may 6th 2026