#CS PhD

[unbfacts]

Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, a Catholic nun, became the first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in computer science in 1965.

[whewchilly]

Carlos’ personal style via Tik Tok

[songpasserine]

I’ve never related to Ransom more. like. king. you are mere minutes away from being kidnapped and sent to another planet as a human sacrifice for aliens. but at least you’re not getting emails from your employer.

[riseandshinemysisters]

grad school preparations

going to start preparing for my phd apps today... i know its a bit too soon considering im just a sophomore in uni, but i figured i'd go here to start giving updates about it :)

[cappurrccino]

my boss out here fully supporting and encouraging my hare-brained PhD schemes and what-ifs bc this is how the game of academia is played

the only problem now is finding a field/subject area I feel that passionate about and am willing to dedicate that much time and money to bc while information sciences is sort of the step up from an MLIS it really doesn't catch my interest that much

[jczg10]

El eco de los sueños pixelados

Hoy, una ola de nostalgia me invade, un torbellino de emociones que me lleva a los rincones más profundos de mi memoria. Quiero compartir con ustedes un pedazo de mi historia, el viaje de un niño que encontró su pasión en el brillo de una pantalla.

Desde muy pequeño, la magia de la tecnología me fascinó. Mi familia en Estados Unidos me traía tesoros inimaginables, aparatos que parecían de otro mundo. Y entonces, llegó el NES, mi primera consola, un portal a mundos de 8 bits donde Mario y los patos de Duck Hunt se convirtieron en mis compañeros de aventuras.

Un día, como un destello, descubrí que esos mundos maravillosos eran creados por personas como yo, con computadoras. Ese instante marcó un antes y un después en mi vida. Aún no sabía qué era la programación, pero mi corazón ya latía al ritmo de los circuitos y los algoritmos.

En la escuela, las computadoras eran una promesa lejana, un espejismo que se materializó justo cuando me despedía de sus aulas. Pero mi madre, mi faro, mi guía, vio en mí una chispa que nadie más notó. Con su sabiduría intuitiva, me inscribió en un curso de computación, donde el lenguaje Pascal se convirtió en mi primer idioma.

Mi abuelito, cómplice de mis sueños, me regaló mi primera computadora, un lienzo en blanco donde comencé a pintar mi futuro. Luego, la universidad, el desafío de equilibrar estudios y trabajo, y la oportunidad de liderar el área de sistemas de una nueva universidad.

Estaba a un paso de alcanzar mi meta, pero la vida, impredecible y a veces cruel, me puso a prueba. Caí tres veces, tropecé con el fracaso, un sentimiento desconocido para mí. Pero como les digo a mis alumnos, "fallar está permitido, abandonar jamás". Y así, en el cuarto intento, el título de ingeniero se hizo realidad, un sueño cumplido, pero no el último.

Hoy, con una maestría en mis manos y un doctorado en el horizonte, sigo persiguiendo mis sueños con la misma pasión de aquel niño que descubrió la magia de los videojuegos. Agradezco a cada persona que ha creído en mí, a mis mentores, a mis amigos, a mi familia, a todos los que me han impulsado a crecer.

Este es mi viaje, un camino de aprendizaje, de superación, de sueños cumplidos y por cumplir. Y tú, ¿cuál es tu sueño?

[treesah]

smh my baby brother beat us all in Civ 5 with a cultural victory

[liquidsnakedoubledeeznuts]

based yaoi or age gap/Yaoi as ive taken to call it,

[bigtreefest]

Morning Mewl

Pairing: PhD Candidate! Curtis Everett x PhD Student! Reader

Summary: Curtis is nervous before his PhD defense

Word count: 866

Content/warnings: fluffy fluff fluff fluff (bc Curtis deserves it), kissing, sharing a bed, roommate and good friend Jake, best friend/mentee turned girlfriend reader, pet name usage (cookie, smart cookie, cooks), established relationship

A/N: Inspired partially by @biteofcherry in this post and what was written for @jamneuromain in this post. Shoutout for all my moots for Curtis encouragement and @thezombieprostitute for the constant praise at all hours. I hope you guys melt reading this along with me.

Takes place a couple years down the line once reader and Curtis are dating and in the same program, so there’s not a weird power imbalance.

Comments, likes, reblogs, and asks are so appreciated. Thank you for reading!!

Dividers by @firefly-graphics

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You were used to the groans that came out of Curtis when waking up. Every morning, his broad form that was wrapped around your body creaked in the joints as he stretched, fighting the stiffness that would settle over him in the night.

This morning, you were woken up by a slightly different sound than the usual early morning deep breath and whine that signaled him waking. This was was more high-pitched…more of a…mewl?

You snickered lightly at the sound, ready to turn around in his hold and crack a joke to his face.

“That was an interesting one.” You softly giggled it out, mixed with the small rasp of your morning voice. When you finally opened your eyes, though, you were surprised to not see Curtis’s face at all.. it was hidden by a ball of fluff, a black and gray tabby cat curled up and now purring peacefully.

The same cat you had met years ago when Curtis had brought her in so the landlord didn’t find out. You struggled to hold in a fit of laughter, but weren’t sure what to do. From under the restful mound of fluff came the groan you had expected that morning.

“Jensen, come get the cat.” It was louder that your early morning ears expected, but somewhat muffled and still not enough for her to stir on his face.

Curtis’s roommate Jake came walking into the room, glasses thrown on haphazardly and hair messy from the early hour. Jake wasn’t in your program, he was actually studying CS, which was for the best and very helpful for how often your computer got overloaded. Curtis was glad to have a roommate who was in a different program from him, too. It was a nice break from the nonstop work, plus an opportunity to hear about another department’s drama. Sure, he and Jake didn’t have very similar sleeping schedules, but they got along well and were respectful of noise for the other.

Jake rubbed his eyes under his glasses, adjusting to the light that poured through the curtains of Curtis’s window. He laughed at the predicament Curtis found himself in “I swear she likes you more than she likes me. It’s not fair you get all the ladies around here.”

You laughed as Jake walked into the room towards Curtis’s side of the bed. “C’mere, Mav. Don’t scratch uncle Curtis. He didn’t like that last time.”

Jake gently scooped the cat off his face and she instantly clung to the fabric on the shoulder of his own graphic tee, snuggling against Jake’s shoulder. “Okay, I’ll keep her out of her out of your hair, or at least as much of it as you have, while you get ready. If I don’t see you before you leave, good luck today. I’ll be in the back of the lecture hall for your defense.”

He walked towards the door before turning around. “Oh! And by the way, I stopped by that breakfast place you like yesterday. Picked up some sandwiches for this morning’s brain food. All you and Cookie have to do is heat them up.”

You and Curtis had both shifted to sit up by now, and you watched a small, appreciative smile creep onto his face. “Thanks, Jensen, I’ll see you later, man.”

You twisted towards your boyfriend, finally seeing his full face for the first time that morning. “You hear that? He got us the good stuff. Free breakfast, Cooks.”

You shook your head and brushed your hand over the stubble on his cheek, freshly trimmed the past weekend so it was neat for Curtis’s PhD defense later this morning. “I’m not the smart cookie today. You are, future Dr. Everett. It has a good ring to it already.”

Your thumb traced over the freckles on his nose as he leaned into your touch, turning his head to place a kiss on your palm. His eyes sparkled back toward you with a hint of concern you’d rarely seen from the usually confident and secure man. “Not yet, though. Don’t wanna count my chickens before they hatch.”

Your other hand came up to frame his face and pull his forehead to yours. “Look at me. Today’s going to be great. You’re going to show everyone how smart you are and how hard you’ve worked and how there’s no one else who’s as deserving of this degree as you. And I’m going to be right there, cheering you on with your parents, without an ounce of doubt in your abilities.”

He relaxed in your hold, wrapping his one arm around your waist, the other settling on your thigh as his eyes fluttered shut. He sighed, absorbing the comfort of the moment before looking up at you through his eyelashes. “Promise?”

You leaned in to kiss him, slow and deep. An exhibit of love and faith and the deepest support that bloomed from friendship. You both pulled away with smiles on your faces before you saw his demeanor shift and lighten, his usual, determined game face taking over. He was ready for the day.

“I promise. Now let’s go eat that breakfast before Jensen changes his mind and steals it from us.”

Bonus A/N: Pls feel free to screech with me about soft! Curtis. He deserves all the credit and all the love.

[megbritt]

Ok last job journal/productivity/studyblr-esque type post I promise ! Then I will return to my whimsy and return to the usual broadcast. Moving forward, posts like this will end up being on their respective blogs, but I digress. But for now, please bear with me.

I GET ASKED LIKE THE SAME THREE QUESTIONS ALL THE DAMN TIME (instagram dms, tumblr asks, even irl at every tech meetup imaginable what have you; im just directing you all here to this post from now on LOL)

questions like "how did you get into software engineering professionally"

"what is your technical background"

and arguably, more importantly "did you go back to grad school"

in this essay, i will sksksk

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how did i get into swe

i have a bachelors degree in comp math, also known as applied mathematics - computer science emphasis. despite the name, i didnt really feel like i was a cs major regardless since most of my electives i chose as an undergrad were mainly theory.. I didn't take a lot of swe-centered courses. My courses in undergrad primarily focused on topics such as combinatorics in latex, n-color cyclic compositions, and linear algebra in r.

after my bachelors degree i ended up going to grad school to obtain a masters degree in theorical physics since i fell so daymn hard in love for physics as an undergrad- oof im !

missed coding for a few years.. ended up going to coding boot camp to sharpen my skills here we are <33

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what is my technical background

basically answered above !

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did i go back to grad school

no.

I currently am enrolled in a grad school level computer science course at the moment. But I'm enrolled as a "non-seeking degree grad student", or at least that's what it says on my transcripts. Currently, I'm still trying to figure out if I'm ready to commit to a second round of grad school for a second masters or phd.

May or may not take a few more grad level cs courses in the fall & spring; we'll see!

I am enrolled for the fall to take a bunch of random community college courses, one of which is cs, the others of which are like art lol.

The programming language class will be quite nostalgic, cause it's the same programming language i learned as an undergrad.. aww 🫶 It's quite unfortunate I don't really use that language at any of my jobs though.. One of my jobs primary focuses on C# backend so yeah c:

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how am i going to focus on all this whilst working multiple jobs

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

WE'LL SEE LOL

Quite frankly, I'm barely holding on as it is. Have already contemplated either deferring to the next cohort or dropping the class entirely and waiting until next year but LOL

Somehow it's working out rn !

I kind of blame this on the fact that no one told me classes started two weeks ago??? I basically registed for this class thinking it would start in about two weeks or something NOT THE VERY NEXT DAY I MEAN LOLOL we're like three weeks into the course already as I'm writing this

I kinda do feel like I was just thrown into the fire with this one. It didn't help that I answered a skills survey maybe a bit too accurately i mean x3 kind of regretting answering it TOO honestly.. I should've put I was a beginner at everything cause level 1's group project is to get a front-end only project up and running. easy peasy why cant i do that. BUT IM IN THE HIGHEST LEVEL at level 3 we're all professional devs and we have to turn in a fullstack app with aws lambda and the works.. a working database and everything WHYY?!? LOL

It's nice though that we all have similar schedules though cause we're all working devs in the team but

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The transition from not going to school for a few years bc of work to full blown working full-time with multiple jobs on the side AND going to grad school again but this time its part-time

HAS BEEN ROUGH LOL no denying

But I will admit I'm having a lot of fun.

I'm glad that before this I was, ya know, going to disneyland on the reg, and/or raving, going to as many raves as I can. Attending concerts like the concert junkie I am lol

I still plan to do these things of course, but I think it'll be a significantly less amount than before.

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tl;dr im a massive nerd (but i prefer scholar ! it sounds better lolol)

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Lastly, I just wanted to plug my two new tumblrs I made recently!

You can find me there on those two, probably talking about my classes or work or other news. And productivity! megbrittstudies.tumblr.com & notreallystudyingcs.tumblr.com

　

Thank you for reading this far !! ily ! ♡

[popiacopia]

Do you have any honorifics or post-nominal letters that we don't know about, Frater?

👸🦁

Just the FI for me— no PhD, no MD, no other ABCs. Just plain Frater Imperator!

I suppose you could include the DE, PEN, FM, or CS IV, but that seems excessive. Dark Excellency, Pater Ecclesiae Nigrae (Father of the Black Church), Facie Mortis (face of death, referring to the Papal paints), Consiliarius Satanae (Counselor of Satan) the Fourth. I am no longer actively Papa, so only the last one still applies.

[felixcloud6288]

On the homeworks I'm grading there's one question that has become a litmus test for checking if some students might be cheating on their work because if the first result if you google the question is a Youtube video that gives a correct but overly complex proof to the problem.

And their proof at a level of complexity that I would doubt a math PhD student would figure this out themselves, much less a CS undergrad.

[perdvivly]

Also do a🌻

I think it’s a shame that “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is the best known pangram. It’s both rather inefficient as pangrams go (35 letters) and not particularly creative to make up for it.

Consider this pangrammatic autogram for example: “This pangram contains four As, one B, two Cs, one D, thirty Es, six Fs, five Gs, seven Hs, eleven Is, one J, one K, two Ls, two Ms, eighteen Ns, fifteen Os, two Ps, one Q, five Rs, twenty-seven Ss, eighteen Ts, two Us, seven Vs, eight Ws, two Xs, three Ys, & one Z.” Which is massively inefficient of course, but creative enough to make up for that.

I do really like the tumblr-famous pangram “Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow” but not quite as much as “waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex” (both of which are more efficient than the more famous jumping fox).

There aren’t known perfect pangrams in English that don’t have some glaring defect. Sure there’s “Mr Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx” which doesn’t make sense as a sentence and uses abbreviations, and “Cwm fjord bank glyphs vext quiz” which is frankly too arcane and only makes sense if you really squint.

But!

There is a famous perfect pangram in Japanese. *And* it’s a really pretty Buddhist poem too. There are a few caveats like the first record of its existence comes from 1079 and so it has some obsolete and historical hiragana and there have been phonological changes over time etc. but check it out, it’s really neat: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroha

[witchconnectingdotes]

Hey everyone if anyone is available for an exchange that would be rly cool I am at a cross roads in my career path I m getting my CS diploma this year and I m approaching the end on my internship idk if I should pursue a masters or a PhD ( stay in same city or change)

[dandelionmoss]

ok they got me. the fucking rationalists got me worried about ai safety. and now i need to do something about it but because i chose a fake & gay college major for dumb idiots* instead of math or cs i can't do fucking anything. i probably don't even have enough math background for an econ phd or whatever. me when i'm worthless ?

*it is widely acknowledged on this fucking site that the social sciences are fake & gay. worst part is that it's true

[aorish]

i think if you work in CS you're somewhat entitled to an opinion on whether or not P=NP is true. but that's really more about your own worldview than a good argument for or against. maybe if you have a phd in pure math you can also voice an opinion about the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis. but pretty much anything else that's an open problem should be a solid "idk"