We’ve started a tradition of having an approximately weekly “family” style dinner at my apartment where someone makes dinner for everyone to enjoy. There are four people in my house (Megan, Filip, Gal, and myself), plus we usually invite one or two others over for the event. It is great to let someone else cook dinner for a night, and it is nice to have an excuse to take a break, drink some wine, and enjoy some good food. Read more »
Today Megan and I took a hike up Mount Toby just north of Amherst in Leverett. I had read that the hike starts near a waterfall, but the stream was all dried up when we went, so the Roaring Falls trail had a pretty weak roar. The very start of the hike quickly climbs up along some steep cliffs where you need to watch your step. After that, it levels off and follows an old fire road along the creek to the top of the mountain. The leaves are only beginning to change now, but it was a very pretty hike. Read more »
There are three keys to keeping an organized research project:
Each of these has its own use, and none can completely cover for another. Here are my suggestions for each… Read more »
This site aims to chronicle my life as a CS grad student at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, but don’t worry, I won’t just complain about it being too much work all the time. Instead, I’ll try to present some of the things I’ve learned so far that might be useful to other grad students. I’ll go beyond just school related subjects to give a bit of flavor for my life as a grad student as well.