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Graduation and Uncertainty

Perhaps one of the most dreaded things for graduating seniors is uncertainty. You’d hope that before graduating you’d have a clear and defined path of what you want to do afterwards. While I personally can’t claim I’m heavily affected by this...

Working with Remote Teams

I’m currently involved in a project that spans three different timezones. I’m here in PA, another team is in Switzerland, and another team is in southeast Asia. All of us are collaborating on different components of the same project. I will be sharing some...

Interpretation

Interpretation is one of the most mentally taxing activities that I have ever experienced. Being fluent in both Spanish and English, I am tasked with casual interpreting very often: between my mom and my girlfriend’s family, sight translating an article, even...

Success

After these 4 years, I’m exhausted. Particularly, after this last semester, I can feel the ache for a break. A cleansing period of time just full of relaxation: no technology, no responsibilities, just calmness, and perhaps a few books; at least for some time. I...

Cost of Attending a Scientific Conference

I recently had a paper accepted to a top-tier computer science conference – yay! – and I’m invited to present my work. This is a phenomenal opportunity because it allows me to discuss my work with other researchers and incorporate their feedback.   This is my...

Splitting Bills with Friends

This weekend a few friends came to visit from Philadelphia. We were colleagues a few summers ago, working for the same company. Thus, I know them well, although we had haven’t hung out much (they don’t go to Penn State). Since I came to the US, I noticed...

Reflecting on my College Career: Jobs

One of the factors that affected my decision when choosing Penn State was its massive career fair. Interestingly, many internships and offers later, I actually never attended the career fair. I still recall the first one, though. It was my first semester here. I had a...

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Blogging has been a topic of debate ever since I joined the PLA. We have had polls, team assessments, focus groups, and discussions, trying to decide what the best approach to blogging is. Should we blog once a week? Once a month? Whenever we want to? Should we have a...

Death Penalty and Natural Law

Last semester, I took a very interesting Political Science class, which had some good philosophical background imbued in it. The class gave me a solid background to look at the current political sphere with a more educated lens. Needless to say, I purchased a few...

Work now or work later?

There’s a few friends I can talk to for hours. The topics can be in anything: philosophy, politics, technology, popular culture, psychology, or all of the above. This past week, one of them visited and we had the opportunity to catch up with one of these...