Once, many years ago, my mom’s cat was very ill. Being the runt of the litter of an overbred cat, he had problems with diverticulum and would probably die within a few months. But he and my mom held on, she even sneaked him into a hospital meant for humans! Turkey kept on pushing on as well, after five surgeries he was still alive! Eventually, after a final fifth surgery that closed the cavity inside of his esophagus, he got better.
My cat’s shining moment
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Research in College: 6 Inspiring Lessons I Learned
What does “college research” actually mean? Before this summer, I thought it was just a buzzword — something tour guides bragged about and brochures plastered across glossy photos. Then I spent ten weeks at Argonne National Lab doing high-performance computing research, and it clicked. I worked on integrating AMD’s GPU library (RCCL) into MPICH, one…
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5 Things I’ve Learned in the Impact Fellowship
For those of you who don’t know, I’m in curaJOY’s impact fellowship. We are creating an annotated data set, algorithm, and intervention system for cyberbullying. It will be the first one of its kind made 100% by gen z. Our hope is that with our lived experience of the modern world, we will be able…
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From Passive Consumers to Active Shapers: Technology’s Second Chance
We’ve made so much “progress” that we can now order food, learn, and work without ever seeing another person. But is that really true progress or just convenience that erodes our humanity and quality of life? We’ve traded a handful of close friends for thousands of followers—and feel lonelier than ever. We’ve gone from exploring…
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