Week 3: 16 Sep – 22 Sep

What did you do this past week?

This past week was a whirlwind where everything happened all at once. I had assignments due in every single course; I spent most of my time during the first part of the week wrapping up Collatz, the next few days starting and finishing my Algorithms assignment, and the last few days completing my Computer Networks project. I also had a few interviews throughout the week and also attended the career fair events on Thursday. Lastly, since this week was the height of the recruiting frenzy, I had several WiCS responsibilities to take care of as well including holding an event on Friday morning. I’m a sucker for free swag and one of the highlights of this week was that I got a free wireless charger for my phone from a company at the career fair! I probably got a collective 20 hours of sleep this week but this week only comes once a year and although it is the most draining, stressful, and tiring week of the semester, there’s no better feeling than the relief that washes over you on a Friday night when you know you’re done with the week!

What’s in your way?

As of now, I feel like I’ve slightly fallen behind in taking time to digest a lot of the content being taught in my classes and only doing the bare minimum in my coursework for the sake of recruiting and preparing for interviews. Ultimately, I feel like what’s in my way is just catching up and getting back up to speed with fully comprehending the topics being taught in my classes right now.

What will you do next week?

I will be working with my group on kicking off project 2 and hopefully getting a good chunk of work done. I hope to also get a lot of my homework done ahead of time so I’m not scrambling to finish (like I ended up doing this past week).

What was your experience in learning about operators and AWS?

I enjoyed learning about operators as they are crucial to understand for general computations in Python programs. It’s also great that the TAs have extensive experience and insight in these tools we will be using heavily so that when we run into troubles, regardless of the differences between everyone’s projects, we can go to them for help!

What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?

My pick-of-the-week is iOS 13. I’ve been raving to my friends ever since it was released about how Apple finally rolled out Dark Mode and how I’ve gone to the Dark side and haven’t looked back since. Furthermore, I like how they revamped the default Apple Reminders app as now it’s more user-friendly and has more features.