weeknotes

Last Monday, the second year masters students at the media lab all gave short presentations about their thesis projects. It's an opportunity for them to formally propose their research ideas to the entire lab community - faculty, fellow students, etc…

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Trying to catch up on a month of very intense activity is a really daunting task. I have a (small) breather before Thanksgiving, so figured it’d be good to squeeze this out before the real end-of-semester crunch begins. I’…

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This is a short blog post for a short week, last week. It was a bit of a recharge / reset week; when people have been asking me, lately, "how are things going?" I noticed I've been responding with rather draining,…

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It’s already October and well into the semester. Deadlines for adjusting course schedules have passed. Project deadlines are coming up and whatever passes for “routine” around here is taking over. I think this is all best characterized by something…

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I’m falling into a few old patterns of not being able to apply a good filter on things I want to be working on. This is especially problematic at a place where opportunities come really fast and constantly. How…

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A couple days late with this week note. I wrote a good chunk of this over the weekend, but didn’t finish editing until I realized I hadn’t posted. I backdated the posting date, at any rate. Another week…

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