Happy Times at Grace Hopper 2011
This year, November 9th through 11th, I went to my first technical convention. The Grace Hopper Celebrating Women in Computing is not your typical convention, however. It is plugged as primarily for...
View ArticleWhat every (nerd)girl wants for the holidays.
Ok, so not EVERY girl wants these things, but hey, I thought I would have a bit of fun this week and just give you a list of items I would love to see under my tree this holiday season. HTC Rezound....
View ArticleNerdy is the New Cool
Spring semester has begun. The readings have been assigned and the first homework assignments have been passed out. I am now counting down the days until my first (*squee*) ACM-W planning meeting on...
View ArticleFall Week 2
Well, as it might be imagined, I am super swamped. I feel like I’m being pulled every which way and I need to get a better system for organizing my life. I’ve this giant running to do list that is a...
View ArticleFall Week 5
I have yet to have a blog post this semester get published on time. I am endeavoring to correct this. Perhaps this is the week I get lucky! This week I had to make some tough decisions and figure...
View ArticleFall Week 6
This past week has been EXHAUSTING. It was a whirlwind of exams and getting everything finished up for Grace Hopper. GREs were on Monday. I took about 3 hours and I’m happy with my scores. They...
View ArticleLean In, A Review
I recently finished reading Sheryl Sandberg’s new book, Lean In. I would highly recommend this book to anyone. While I’m not quite sure how I would classify this book, it was definitely full of...
View ArticleOn Getting Into Grad School, Part 1
This blog is probably one that would have been better written in the moment rather than as a retrospective, but as you will see from the timeline I was too overwhelmed with everything else going on to...
View ArticleOn Getting Into Grad School, Part 3
Have you read Part 2 yet? October 2012: More Traveling Fun Amidst getting through my senior year classes (which were amazingly more difficult than my previous courses), I traveled some more in the...
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