Just Spent Four Nights In The Mountains Operating A Big Telescope. The Views Were Beautiful And I Got

Snatched my favorite study spot at the library! Doing some thought organizing before I meet with my research advisor tomorrow to discuss my project.

What do we say when we are in a Summer School and we are living hard the impostor syndrome life?

We say: I'm gonna take these much-smarter-than-me people and asked them a fuckton of questions. And I won't stop asking until I have absorbed all their knowledge and they've forgotten their own name.

ESO’s La Silla Observatory over the night sky

Image credit: ESO

A list of math books

…to read in lieu of an actual math class. So far I have

- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter

- I am Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter

- Chaos by James Gleick

- Category Theory by Steve Awodey

It’s sad how much of what is taught in school is useless to over 99% of the population.

There are literally math concepts taught in high school and middle school that are only used in extremely specialized fields or that are even so outdated they aren’t used anymore!

your intelligence means fucking nothing if youre devoid of empathy

june 10

happy monday :) feeling really productive today. planned the month of june for my blog (chiasamson.com, check it out if u want!!) and did a few drafts on my iPad. i literally can’t live without this iPad because there are days my laptop’s too inconvenient to carry so having this teeny tiny device really helps a lot in keeping me productive.

about to shoot later today but so far i’m happy with what i’ve accomplished!!! 💛