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Guide Student

How to Ask Better Questions

How to Ask Better Questions I really like talking to students. It’s fun to see the excitement, enthusiasm, and intelligence that each successive generation has developed, especially since (IMO) each generation seems so

Tech-interview

Interview Advice for Research Internships in Data Science

This is to my future self even though I don’t actually ever read my blog posts after having written them. It is a mostly complete and informal set of pointers that serve as

Grad-school

How to Write a Statement of Purpose for Grad School

The Disclaimer This comes first because people often tend to ignore this very relevant section. There is obviously no single way to achieve a successful outcome for your application to graduate school and

Life

A Student’s Guide to Living Abroad II

This part is about the grind. This is the last post in a 2-part series. While the first part highlights the preparatory phase, this post focuses on how life is different from what

Travel

On Traveling without Wanderlust

The definition of travel varies with what you want to get out of it. I write this post to highlight my perspective and learnings from a summer of traveling across a few countries.

Summer-school

Machine Learning Summer Schools

This post is the first in a series of posts highlighting my attempt(s) to prepare myself to undertake research and for graduate school. It will include a year in review, learnings from working

Terminal

How to be a Real Computer Science Major

This post focuses on how to modify/hack your terminal with different plugins such that you can make Homer Simpson spout meaningful software engineering quotes on launching it. Note: This post contains a healthy

Life

A Student’s Guide to Living Abroad I

This is the first of a 2-part series. While this one is focused on making preparations for the travel, the next one will (hopefully) provide deeper insight into how life works and what

Internships

CERN Openlab Summer Student Program

This post is about my internship within the CERN Openlab Program in 2017 and includes a questionnaire (hopefully) useful for students applying to the program. Disclaimer: The views represented here are solely my

Getting-started

Coursework to Complete

An Exhaustive List of Course Lectures This post comprises of a list of lectures that I intend to watch at some point in order to mainly just learn more about these domains. They

Getting-started

The Blog

Why Blog? I like to look back on the things that I do and writing comes easily to me - it just seems like the logical thing to do. Frankly, I’m surprised it

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