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
