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Guide pour écrire un et lettre de motivation.

Ça peut être utile à beaucoup.

hwpi.harvard.edu/files/ocs/fil

#cv #harvard #jechercheunjob #jerecrute

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Indigo · @Indigo
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An Evening with Zadie Smith: King's College, Cambridge

"Bestselling novelist and essayist Zadie Smith (KC 1994), one of the most essential writers of our time, joined us for a special event to read from and talk about her work."

❤️ ❤️

youtube.com/watch?v=0aYntXSYiG

#ZadieSmith #thefraud #writers #art #literature #book #black #BlackMastodon #backtwitter #blackfediverse #academicchatter #englishdepartment #yale #harvard #princeton #stanford #cambridge #kingscollege #uk

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damian entwistle · @ukdamo
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damian entwistle · @ukdamo
59 followers · 516 posts · Server mastodon.org.uk

Today's photo with the most hits: the memorial Chapel, Harvard, MA.

#harvard #university #massachussetts #church #architecture #georgian #spire

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Jared Davis · @jared
299 followers · 98 posts · Server mathstodon.xyz

Nothing saddens me more than overhearing / / students talking about how “grades don’t matter” and “I don’t see the point of learning this topic”

#mit #Tufts #harvard

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Iago Andrade · @iago_andrade
11 followers · 4 posts · Server kolektiva.social

Well, I think it could be nice to talk a bit about myself, so here it goes (it is a long one, be warned)

My (still ongoing) journey from engineering to programming: Prologue
As can be seen in my profile bio, my name is Iago Andrade, and I am a Brazilian. What can't be seen there, though, is that I'm a mechanical engineer, and I have worked as a mechanical designer since 2018. This year (2023) I decided to pursue an old desire, which was to be able to work with .

First contact
From the very first year at university, I fell in love with programming, when we were introduced to . Most of my friends were not really interested in that, and thought it was too difficult, but I was fascinated by the possibilities of what could be done with it.
At first, we used it mostly to solve dificult mathematical problems through iterative process, but my curiosity led me to learn more than just what was taught in classes. We were also later introduced to MATLAB and EES, and I even learned a bit of in order to help a friend of mine.
But as the course became more and more time consuming, I started to drift away from that passion, and focus more on the other disciplines, and only sparingly did I delve into anything related to programming.

First job
As I graduated, I soon got a in mechanical design, modeling industrial equipment and parts and its drafts for production. As I had little time for studying, programming was put aside for a while, and all the focus was put into this job.
I learned a lot at this job, and managed to build a lot of resources for accelerating, and even automating tasks, and that kept me reminded of how much I liked to solve problems like these. I even got to the point of learning some script in order to automate the creation of folders in the company's server (which did not end up very well, due to the lack of some quotes hehe). Though the script caused some problems, it was solved in the end (and I learned the important lesson of debugging everything very thoroughly).

Reigniting an old passion
At some point between then and now, I learned of the existence of a "new" game engine called . I had never made any , and had never used a game engine before either, but I had had some contact with (free and open source softwares), like and , and that one caught my attention, since I had always wanted to create games. Since it was free, super lightweight, I decided to give it a go. It felt so good to learn that tool, and programming in it reminded me of how much I liked to code.
Back then, a friend of mine was also interested in making a game, and he wanted to be more focused on the story part of it, which was perfect since I wanted to focus on the programming and possibly the art and music for it. We started to work on the idea, got a ton of references, and started building the overall scope and story, until one day we lost momentum and just couldn't get back to it. Our jobs were sucking too much energy, and we decided to put it aside until we had more time to do it properly.

and the leap of faith
After some more years of working with 3D modeling, the company where I was working decided to implement an ERP system. The problem was they didn't have anyone from the inside who was qualified for some of the tasks that would appear, and they tasked me with dealing with those problems.
I had never worked with an ERP system, but had some idea of how worked, and that helped a lot in making some decisions early on (like not entrying all data manually). I had to learn how to bulk clean old data from another system they had used before, which had been fed by many different people, with a lot of mistakes and inconsistencies.
After that, I had to import all that data into the system, and I decided it was time to learn SQL so I could query the database properly when I needed information. And that once again triggered my interest in programming, leading to my decision to make new templates for the engineering team.
These templates used programming for automating some of the tasks, in a language specific for the modeling software,reducing many of the steps in the project pipeline, and making it easier to input new equipment in the system.
As I became more and more of some problems at work, and got more interested in programming again, I made the decision of focusing in relearning the languages I had contact with, and while searching for resources, I was informed that offered this course online, called
For a few months I tried, and was unable to in my spare time. So ultimately, I decided to my job, finish CS50, and start a career in programming.

Paying the
With only the final project from the course left, money was running short, and bills were still appearing, so I had to start looking for jobs, and I ended up getting another job in mechanical design. The difference now is that it is much closer to home, so I will be able to finish my final project on my spare time, and keep looking for roles in programming.

Epilogue: The Final Project
Since this toot is ridiculously long already, I may as well talk about the final project for whoever got to this part haha
The idea for the project is to mix a bit of with , making a site with three main areas containing mini-games in three different styles, from to one with actual graphics. If all goes well, I also wanted to enable players to get a score, and keep that in a database, if the player so desires. is being done in python with , is using templates from flasks , but mostly plain and

#programming #c #python #job #bash #godot #games #FOSS #blender #inkscape #sql #databases #tired #harvard #cs50 #study #quit #bills #junior #gamedev #webdev #ascii #backend #flask #frontend #jinja #html #css #javascript

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ts thank you ☕ · @tsyum
399 followers · 1050 posts · Server thepit.social

And Skip the Small Talk - a really cool project spearheaded by Ashley Kirsner out of that’s still happening years after it began. You can find it on the calendar at least. And last I knew it was open to folks outside the school. I recommend

#greaterboston #harvard

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Preston MacDougall · @ChemicalEyeGuy
413 followers · 11997 posts · Server mstdn.science

.@Wikipedia reminds us that today is the birthday of , the one-time Superlawyer for the super-guilty, such as OJ ‘the Juice’ Simpson and Trump. 🎂

‘Dersch’ is also known as 🩲 on the .

crooksandliars.com/2019/07/ala

#alandershowitz #harvard #donaldthedeplorable #captainunderpants #birdsite

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Claude Trudel · @cltr
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Champagne · @Champagne
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I regularly do a workout at Stadium and record it as a in .

Unfortunately, Strava doesn't understand that running up & down the stairs of a stadium can't be measured the same as running along the roads. Strava assigns a "Relative Effort" score to your workouts. Yesterday's 40 min run along the roads came in at a score of 60. Today's similarly timed stadium workout came in at a 5! I can tell you which one was much harder & it doesn't match those scores at all!

#harvard #run #strava #running

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Random Facts ♾️ · @RandomFacts
107 followers · 330 posts · Server mstdn.social

A recent study at 🎓 has shown that eating chocolate can actually help you live longer!

🌐

#Facts #randomfact #harvard

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GÉANT · @geant
384 followers · 462 posts · Server mstdn.social

Kristiaan De Greve is Programme Director of at , Associate Professor at and visiting researcher at University.

The Belgian NREN spoke to him about and the focus of the project. 👉connect.geant.org/2023/07/03/i

The article is also featured in the latest issue of the GÉANT CONNECT Magazine, 👉connect.geant.org/connect43

#cryptography #QKD #quantum #connect43 #beqci #QuantumKeyDistribution #Belnet #harvard #kuleuven #IMEC #quantumcomputing

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Laure · @LaureM
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There’s a lot in this report. But these stand out: “Dark Tetrad” “Need for Chaos” and “Spreading false information online was also significantly and positively related to believing that one is qualified for public office (r = .40, p < .001) and the desire to possibly run for office one day” From review.

misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/

#academic #research #harvard #misinformation #disinformation #academia

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Thomas Ebinger (Moderator) · @ebinger
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Heute war tatsächlich Einschreibetag in - draußen im Grünen. Da hab ich mich doch gleich vor der Social Wall platziert. Gefallen würde mir der Studienort ja schon, auch wenn Heidelberg gut mithalten kann, wo ich angefangen habe. Witzig, dass der Ortsteil Cambridge heißt ...

#harvard #reisetagebuchusa #boston

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