#ib comp sci

[gamehacklab]

The End of Programming as We Know It – O’Reilly

A very good reflection on the evolution of the ways we had been programming.

[sherlockisademigod]

The Harding pencroft student aesthetic (House Cephalopod):

Highschool computer science student

Getting Ravenclaw on all the questionable HP quizzes

50 disassembled objects scattered around your room

Favourite subject is math or comp sci

Doing AP/IB math but then also spending half the lesson reading Jules Verne

Long debates with friends over the probability of the technology mentioned in 2000 leagues under the sea

(Disassembles pen in the middle of class and merges it with another one)

[dixiedingo]

I don't talk about this a lot cause it stings still but I was set to go to Towson University after busting my ass in one of the worst education systems in the US.

I was an IB certificate kid (I was missing one credit, so I couldn't get the diploma that they take overseas), and I put myself through the worst academic torture imaginable. I was unmedicated for ADHD while also doing student journalism in one of the best journalism programs in state (we won first place at the student journalism conferences). This doesn't sound like a lot but I was also balancing a crippling fear of losing my spot with the team while balancing a destructive home life, and trying to keep my grades up (especially since my mom passed my junior year; I flunked every final that year and barely passed)

I reassured myself all the time I'd make it. So many anxiety attacks and thoughts of suicide because I didn't think I'd ever go to college. And then I got accepted. But no matter how many short essays I wrote I couldn't get a scholarship. I applied to FAFSA. To get cheaper tuition, I used my dad's address (who lived near Towson) instead of my grandmother's (who has not earned a bloody cent since she's been disabled for years now.)

Biggest. Fucking mistake. Of my life.

They assumed I could pay the other half. I could not. I asked everyone for help, dad included. But no one had the money. So I defaulted. So now I owe the rest of the tuition and whatever I borrowed to cover it.

My credit score is 600 but because I've defaulted on that tuition, I can't apply to any credit cards for a boost. I can't an apartment. And the worst part about it is I moved back to my state where minimum wage is $7.25.

I don't know if I'll ever be able to pay it back, but I don't care. I just know it wasn't fair. It wasn't fair to me or to anyone I knew because I wasn't the only one banking for college.

I tried /so hard/ to make great grades and kept telling myself it'd be worth it, cause I'd get a comp Sci degree and pay it off in no time.

And I'm not the only person like this.

The college system is a fucking joke.

[10verboy]

it's so funny seeing "how I got into my prestigious university" vids on yt now bc it's like. man for me it was most likely my essay and the major I applied for I'm ngl

[crobby]

11, 68, 96?

11. how many pairs of shoes do you own?

Very Many

68. favorite school subject?

hmmm i love language arts, but i also really enjoy arabic. biology last year was ASS but i’m holding out hope for chem lmao! might do that for my IB thingy since bio is a bust and it’s either that or comp sci. might do comp sci and Wow that was not the question at all. lunch.

96. how did you get your name?

my parents named me after a holocaust heroine.

get to know me uncomfortably well!

[livie1507]

why would you take analysis, physics AND COMP SCI ALL HL LIKE THAT'S CRAZY BEHAVIOR AND A DEATH WISH

which IB exams are you taking this year? I luckily only have one (SL french) but i have to take FIVE next year 😭😭

ok lowkey i kinda like the concepts we talk about in tok junior year but why tf is it during lunch for us, like wtf. luckily next year tok is a class so my lunch won't get taken once a week (tho I've heard senior year tok is way different)

wait @livie1507 YOU'RE IN IB TOO??

no way 💀💀 how are you doing with it

oh WHAT ARE YOUR SUBJECTS

[daveyeeyeestrider]

i am 👌 this close to dropping out and switching degrees

fuckin transferring to a different university

i hate comp sci it stresses me tf out i havent had stress headaches like this since i was in high school in the IB program

[xinstudy-blog]

hi everyone!! i’ve been inspired by the studygram community for quite some time now, in fact, i have a studygram to keep myself motivated and to stay on top of my studies! c: i only recently decided to make a studyblr because tumblr is a platform that allows me to express myself more easily through a variety of aesthetics and coding and also it’s another way to keep me even more motivated aha

about me

my name is winnie (or xin, whichever one you prefer!)

i’m going to be a high school senior in september which means uni applications are coming near!! ;-;

i currently don’t know what i want to do in the future, but i want to major in either industrial design, comp sci, chemistry or engineering 

i really love to draw and anything to do with designing things and being creative in general~

my classes

chemistry

physics

computer science

[product] design 

art IB 

calculus

goals

become more active within the studyblr community

interact with other studyblrs and make new friends hopefully!

to make more neat notes, study often, and to stay on top of my schoolwork!

alleviate my anxiety about the future ;; 

some of my favourite studyblrs that i really look up to for inspiration are @ceestudies, @smoinerd, @emmastudies, @studyquill, @tbhstudying, @studyblr, @studyignand, @sprouht-studies and @soymilkstudies!!

[co2018]

hi!

hi all, I’m skylar and my studyblr is @fennelstudy, my main is @mess-spectrometry so that is what i follow from! I’m 17 and going into my last year of HS in america, specifically virginia. I like sports animes, super cliche shondaland shows, and voltron. Fun fact: I was super into percy jackson at it’s “tumblr peak” back in 2013 so if any of you were too hmu!!!! Also I love pokemon a lot and read the manga.

I took a pretty standard class schedule last year, I took triple IB sciences w/ comp sci, bio, and physics and standard APs as well. This year I’m taking the same stuff but w/ a GIS class which I’m very excited for. Out of school I like to do basic web and graphic design in my free time, I’m pretty beginner tho :-) . I intern at labs and I’m super passionate about my research. I work with microcontrollers and mass specs, µC and µM/L lol...... My perception of what I want to do has drastically changed from the beginning to end(-ish! not done yet!) of high school, I started out being super undecided and unmotivated (even as a HS-er) and now I’m really excited for the future! I’m a big proponent for knowledge for the sake of knowledge and I really want to stay researching. I’m probably going to end up majoring in chemistry or comp sci or some type of engineering (so maybe I still am super undecided......) If any of you are planning to major in similar stuff I’d love to talk to you!

[nesps]

i may have not failed ib comp sci but i will definitely fail ap calculus Theres not even a good point to gettin a better score like i need to retake it anyways so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[theibblog]

my bio teacher has been favoring the boys in the class significantly, refusing to prep labs (we finished one lab), trying to teach us bio through stats and comp sci rather than the curriculum, and appears to simply read (and not understand) the textbook the night before class rather than really understanding the content. the school finally got on his case, and he's doing better but I'll need to learn 1/4 of the curriculum on my own because of this. any tips on how to self-study an IB class?

Hey, it's good that things are improving!Since you and your friends are in the same situation, you could all get together and teach each other the content. You guys could assign each other certain parts for each person to look in depth, and then teach it to everyone else. Also, make sure you have the textbook and you could also watch YouTube videos. if you could find sheets with tick boxes of what you should know for each topic, that would be really useful! Good luck! If you have anymore qs feel free to send them - Maria and Malu X

[itsjayyyy]

July 13, 2019 11:20 am

this isn’t going to be an actual update on how my life has been going, its more of just self-reflection. all of these topics tie together at the end i promise I’m not just rambling.

on thursday, I got an email about scholarships to attend conferences (the one that REALLY caught my attention was Lesbians Who Tech in new york (and i mean it really got me, like wow there are people like me in this field)), which all required a resume or linkedin. that’s when I realized how outdated my resume was; all of my extracurriculars stopped after the first semester of college (nearly two years ago) due to my depression worsening. On top of that, I have no field experience; I’ve only ever worked as a cashier at fast food. I’m already entering my third year, which means most internships and jobs at my age require knowledge in 4 programming languages and “1-2 years of experience in a leadership positions” (not shitting you. that’s literally what’s required of every single comp sci internship near my university). All of the internships (outside of my city) that are purely entry level also require that the applicant is in their 1st or 2nd year, so I can’t take those either. Definitely getting anxious about that.

Another thing is that recently I feel like I’m putting all of my strength into finding a relationship. I’ve been acting as if all of my self image issues will go away if i get a girlfriend (which is kinda still true), but haven’t taken into consideration the fact that 1. I hate the idea of meeting people on dating apps and 2. I have literally nothing to put in my bio, or anything to talk about. It’s like, “what do you do in your free time?” i don’t fuckin know, lay in bed?

Yesterday, I was making tempeh, just standing around in my kitchen, and I realized that this really was where I wanted my life to be when I was like 13. Having my own apartment, cooking, being independent. And yet, this is nothing like how I wanted my life to be. I live like a zombie; go to work, go to school, stay in bed if not one of the above. I have my own transportation yet I don’t explore the city. I have my own apartment yet I never have friends over (yet I don’t have friends...). I have tons of cookware yet I get taco bell every day. No extracurriculars.

The issue that I’ve realized, in all of these, is that I’ve been treating my life as a transition period, but for literally my entire life. In middle school I was just so done with carver, I wanted to be in high school. In freshman/sophomore year I just wanted to skip to being in IB. As a junior/senior I wanted to be in college, away from my classmates. Then I was just waiting on moving out. And now I’m just waiting on the time where I get a job, my own house, and a wife. When am I ever going to live in the moment, enjoy what I have for now? 

Beyond just finding happiness in the moment, this is going to affect my career. If all I do is the bare minimum (passing classes) how am I gonna find a job in this economy? No extracurriculars? No internship? No coding experience beyond c and java? 

From this point forward, I’m going to try to live more. I’m going to try joining clubs, learning extra coding languages online/certification in Office, seeing the city more. Maybe join meetup (I only looked at meetup when I wanted to move to arizona, isn’t that funny). When I get my attendance points up to 10 (or at least 9.5) I’m going to apply for a clerk position at universal. After all of this is done, I’m going to have my resume critiqued by career services, and apply for internships (should be done by spring 2020, at start or end). 

I really hope this isn’t just a manic episode coming at the end of the 3-week depression, but we’ll have to see.

[smartspo]

does anyone have any advice on IB maths HL vs SL regarding uni admissions? i’m thinking about dropping from the HL to SL, but i’m not sure how that would affect me!

i might want to apply for computer science, so i’m not sure if a 7 in the SL is enough? i know that UK universities require maths HL for comp sci, but what about other european countries or US ones?

[welcometoib]

First week so far

Have you seen any posts on the page from the last few days? Maaan, me neither. Just the pure amount of information trying to find a place in your head makes your forget everything else unrelated to IB. What? The IB blog should be related? Sshhhhhhhhhhhh...

Pretty busy week so far though. Meeting new teachers, trying to remember new faces, being thrilled before every class you hadn’t attended yet... I’m just trying to find out whether I’m scared or excited more. 

Anyways, if you are even a tiny bit interested in my classes, here they are:

Math SL English B HL Hungarian SL Comp. Sci. HL Economics SL History HL

I’m quite sure that these classes wont be modified by me. Many of our classmates are still trying out other classes, and they will have a different time trying to decide if something is a worth the change. Some of the teachers are not even willing to create a list of students attending their classes until everything is settled down! (Note: Yes, you can use this to miss some classes if the others have your back :D)

Today I already experienced one of the drawbacks (or advantages?) of the IB timetable. 4 gap classes in a row. Yeah, that’s right, FOUR! Four hours of literally doing nothing unless you have some homework or assignments, which as could guess, are not really existing. Yet.

All in all, quite a lot of new info should be processed by our pleb human minds, hence the missed blog days. Working on a solution!

Until next time,

                    him (or what “her” calls me, i dunno :D)

[blog-tsutomu]

Takahashi study

鍼灸は東アジアで3千年前から行われている。伝統的な鍼灸では気と呼ばれるエネルギーが経絡と呼ばれる通路を流れることで身体を養っていると考えられている。ヒトでは300を超える経穴（ツボ）が経絡上にあり治療に使われる。

しかしこれらの経穴の特性をどのように応用するのか、そこに鍼をするとどのように効くのかはまだよく理解されていない。経穴の解剖学的な正体が何であるのかについても結論が出ていない。

一方で多くの研究が皮膚と筋肉からの体性求心性神経が胃腸の運動機能のコントロールに関係があることを示している。鍼灸治療は細い針を皮膚とその下にある筋層に鍼を刺入する治療法である。現在では1-100Hzの電気で刺激する電気鍼がよく使われる。このように鍼灸は皮膚と筋肉の体性求心性神経を刺激する28, 29。

ラットでは下肢のST36という経穴に鍼をすると胃が収縮し31、お腹のST25という経穴に鍼をすると胃がリラックスする30

鍼灸による胃のリラックスは体性交感神経反射によって起こる。求心路は腹部の皮膚と筋の求心性神経からなっていて、遠心路は胃の交感神経である。反射中枢は延髄30, 32 。対照的にST36への鍼の収縮効果は迷走神経の遠心路を介する31, 33 。

弧束核は心臓血管系、呼吸器系、胃腸系からの内臓情報を中継する主な脳幹。迷走神経の背部運動核に隣接していて、迷走神経背側核を構成している。

　 迷走神経背側核は胃腸機能の調節に主要な役割を果たす迷走迷走神経反射を統合する。弧束核は体性求心性入力も受ける。弧束核のニューロンは皮膚の機械的な刺激によって活性化されるが、鍼灸による体性刺激が脊髄を介して弧束核に運ばれることを示している。

鍼灸による胃の運動反応を介した神経路の解剖学的エビデンスを得るため、鍼灸への反応における脳幹のc-Fos免疫組織化学を研究した。ST36への鍼灸による体性求心路の活性化は中尾側と尾側の弧束核に運ばれ、迷走神経背側運動核を刺激することを示した。

対照的にST25への鍼灸による体性求心路の活性化は中尾側の弧束核に運ばれ、延髄吻側腹外側野ニューロンを刺激する。延髄吻側腹外側野ニューロンは脊髄の中間外側核の交感神経節前ニューロンの駆動を与える運動前野の交感神経刺激性のニューロンとして知られている34。

ST36での鍼灸は意識下のラットの正常なコンディションで大腸の動きと通過を加速させる。鍼灸の刺激効果は仙骨副交感神経の遠心路（骨盤神経）を経て伝わる35。一方でST36での鍼灸はラットにおいて拘束ストレスで引き起こした腸通過の加速を減弱させた32 。（←？）鍼灸はラットでの拘束ストレス下の自律神経機能のアンバランスを改善する36 。我々の近年の研究は鍼灸が抗ストレッサー剤として働き、慢性ストレスに続く大腸の運動不全の回復に関係する視床下部のオキシトシン発現をアップレギュレーションさせることを示した37。

意識下のイヌで、手首への鍼灸はバゾプレッシンによる嘔吐を阻止した。鍼灸の抗嘔吐効果は中枢性のオピオイド経路を媒介する38, 39。イヌでのST36への鍼灸は直腸の膨満による血圧の変化を減少させた。

鍼灸の抗侵害受容作用も中枢のオピオイド経路を媒介する40。MMC（http://neuro-g.umin.jp/neuro-g/publication/6kai%20PDF/shu1001_p76-77.pdf参照 ）は空腹状態での胃腸収縮の表れによって特徴づけられる。胃のMMCの調節は食後の消化不良症状の予防のために重要な要素である41-43。

ST36への鍼灸はイヌでの迷走神経活動性の上昇を介した聴覚ストレスによる空腹時の胃のMMCの障害を回復させる44。

我々の研究は鍼灸が機能性消化不良（FD）や (腹痛と便通異常が慢性的に持続する腸管の機能性疾患) 過敏性腸症候群（IBS）のような機能性の胃腸疾患を持つ患者の治療に有効であることを示している28, 29, 45。

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[suicidle]

hii .v. I'm a different anon asking about UPenn lol.. I want to apply to the DMD major so I wanted to know about your application process (like your portfolio and hs transcript) and if there were any other similar colleges that interested u! :o

Omgggggg!!!!! I don’t know why I never saw this!!!!!

I hope that this response isn’t too late.... I never got the notification for this ask so I don’t know when it was aaked....

So to answer your question I applied to.... basically every Ivy. I did not have very good grades due to mental illness in high school, and despite this, my parents were extremely Ivy or nothing. This was kind of a problem because I actually always wanted to study animation, and honestly, why would you go to an Ivy for that right? Like most of them don’t have anything to do with animation.

My top choices were Stanford (it’s just a cool place y’know), the Brown+RISD program (which is super fucking difficult to get into fuck) and Carnegie Mellon (which actually has very good resources for animation and gaming). I only found out about DMD when I opened up the CommonApp page.... and thank FUCK that I did.

I had a relatively strong art portfolio -- I’ve been told that I have good technique, but I personally feel like my portfolio wasn’t what I wanted it to be (again, due to mental health). I took a summer course on Computer Science in Harvard the summer before applying and had some base in Comp Sci, and although my math grades in school weren’t that good (IB was fucked for me) I did really well in math SAT and SAT 2 exams, as well as participated in Stanford’s competitive math camp. I think given the above, it makes sense that out of the 11 schools I applied to, I only got into Penn, Carnegie Mellon, and RISD.

(if you want to see the portfolio I submitted, you can look here)

The Penn application process was pretty good for me. The program asked for an essay about why I wanted to get into this program, which was of course easy for me because this was my LIFE. I wrote about the use of technology in advancing the beauty of animation, such as how they had to create a separate program in order to animate the skin of the Inside Out characters. It was my longest essay and I think obviously the most passionate. 

I had to upload my art onto the Penn website, which was very organized and allowed for a lot of pieces. It was obvious that they cared about our artwork because of the effort they put into making it functional for both us and the admissions committee. 

In addition, DMD has a separate application pool and a separate admissions committee. I know the woman who picked me, and she is the most darling person ever (she gave me an art book on The Rise of The Guardians which was signed by a past DMD student!!!!). You’re not being compared to all of the applicants ever and instead being compared to everyone who wants to go into computer graphics. It’s extremely specific, and that can be both good and bad! Good in that it’s easier to be more specific in your application, and bad in that you might think to relax and think there will be less people applying (ahahahahaha). 

If you have any other question lmk!!!