In my last post, I briefly discussed moving (or at least removing) the last of my physical belongings from my office at Whitman. In this post, I dig into my OmniFocus task completion log to consider everything that went into moving my digital belongings. For context, I lose access to my Whitman accounts six months after my formal resignation, at the end of January 2027.
Continue readingLast summer, I moved from the US to the UK. This summer, somehow I scheduled three separate trips from the US to the UK. Here’s the story.
Continue readingIt’s been several weeks since I promised a blog post on time use. Somehow I overcommitted myself with scholarly projects and travel – in fact, I drafted this post at 8 pm British Summer Time, in an airplane over the Hudson Bay. But that is a story for another time.
Inspired by a conversation at the Liberal Arts CS (LACS) Consortium annual meeting last month, I decided to look at my time use during my first 6 months at King’s College, Cambridge. That led naturally to a comparison with my last 6 months at Whitman before leaving on sabbatical.
I’ll start with Whitman, where my time allocations are probably more familiar to US colleagues. Then I’ll explain what’s different at King’s.
Continue readingI spent this past weekend at The Hackers Conference, “an annual invitation-only conference traditionally held in the San Francisco Bay Area.” I was invited by my sister, a computer engineer based in Santa Clara, CA, and I was too curious not to attend.
Continue readingToday in our weekly CS Pizza talk and discussion series, the CS department hosted a panel of senior CS majors sharing their off-campus study experiences. Five juniors went abroad last year, and four were able to join the lunchtime panel. I was unable to attend because of my daughter’s early school dismissal, but I hear it went really well!
LJ Friedman, who was unable to join the panel due to a conflicting class, offered to write up his experiences. I offered to share it as a guest post in my blog, and here it is!
Hi! My name is LJ Friedman. I’m a senior Computer Science major and am expecting to minor in Psychology, Math, and Music. I chose to study in Copenhagen because of the offered classes and the location. The program had several courses I was interested in that were more niche and/or didn’t exist at Whitman, and I was excited to take a spread of both Computer Science and Psychology courses that covered topics I otherwise wouldn’t have the opportunity to take. I was primarily interested in the Game Design course, which focused on teaching game design, coding organization, and Unity and C#. There were also Psychology courses that I was particularly interested in, specifically a course on identity, conflict, and discrimination.
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