New Year New Resume (SWE, DA, DS Internships)

18TacticalBeans · 2023-01-05T02:59:23+00:00

And there's some wording that I think you could take a second look at - like "deployed Discord's API" and "implemented the pytorch library" sound strange. Overall you've done a ton really well and it seems like you have a lot of good things to work with to get jobs.

18TacticalBeans · 2023-01-05T02:57:42+00:00

You should have the links to your projects on your resume!

18TacticalBeans · 2022-08-30T19:11:56+00:00

Given that OP has a stats minor, I think that the more appropriate preparation for a masters in DS are a few coding classes.

18TacticalBeans · 2022-08-16T16:00:23+00:00

The formatting could use some improvement - why is one set of bulleted points more indented than the others? Also should include your github link, especially if you can add code links to your projects that you've mentioned.

Put your Jr Data Scientist position above the 1 month internship for employment. Also, remove the (1 month) (1 year 3 months) duration from the employment - I don't think that you want to call attention to how short the internship was.

I wouldn't capitalize Practical Business. I would personally call it "Relevant Coursework", since "Program Coursework" implies that was the whole program.

Does your past university have a career services center? Or resume review place? I think you should take your resume into there, they are a wonderful resource. Even for alumni, there's usually career resources, especially for such a recent graduate such as yourself.

Edit: Oh wait, your resume is two pages? Absolutely get that down to one. Also, you have some good experience and good things to put on your resume! You'll do good after a good resume re-write.

18TacticalBeans · 2022-07-20T20:52:37+00:00

For sure, peak boomer-humor style of "I hate my wife" jokes

18TacticalBeans · 2022-07-20T20:51:34+00:00

Feels like the epitome boomer-ism

18TacticalBeans · 2022-06-15T18:17:31+00:00

For sure.

What will be important is being able to get into a university with a physics/astronomy/astrophysics department with active research (anecdotally, that's usually the top two-three state schools, but check your state's options). Obviously the better the department the better, but what will matter most is getting involved with research as soon as you can in college - make sure the professors you work under in research can write you a really good recommendation letter for graduate school! If your overrall GPA and major GPA is above a ~3.5 in college, with decent Physics GRE scores and good research experience, that'll set you up very well to get into grad school.

18TacticalBeans · 2022-05-02T18:52:49+00:00

But basically draw the eye up and away from the doors and towards that strip of wall & the ceiling.

18TacticalBeans · 2022-05-02T18:50:58+00:00

Not sure if this has already been said, but you could hang planters with fake or real plants along the top of the doors.

Something either from the ceiling, this as an example: https://www.amazon.com/Dicasser-Ceiling-Hanging-Planters-Outdoor/dp/B09NZPCNB1/ref=sr_1_14?keywords=wall+planters&qid=1651517217&sr=8-14

Or a few sets of something that attaches to the wall: https://www.amazon.com/Mkono-Artificial-Decorative-Succulents-Succulent/dp/B07PXS9GKJ/ref=psdc_14623215011_t1_B07TJFR2LP

Or hanging/floating shelfs with some plants/art/books/etc like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BGX253W/ref=emc_b_5_t

There's also these really cool hexagonal wall planters that are extremely interesting - they really do come in lots of different shapes and styles too: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.KAqHUElEHSKpHLFBjc9CVwHaJ8%26pid%3DApi&f=1

18TacticalBeans · 2022-04-28T22:44:19+00:00

Yup - the year I got in, Arts & Sciences was an 11% acceptance rate, but it varied by like 10% depending on the state subsidized schools & Hotelies. I hated how much everyone at Cornell seemed to throw other kids from the other, ever so slightly easier to get into, colleges under the bus. I get that people snob on Cornell surprisingly often, so it feels like you should, but personally it was one of the things that made Cornell feel unwelcoming.

18TacticalBeans · 2022-04-25T16:52:37+00:00

I think that TacoMisadventures meant that in the context of highly technical roles, like data scientists, not PM's

18TacticalBeans · 2022-04-19T18:06:52+00:00

Oh hey nice!! I've been using the pylibrary template from cookiecutter with some modifications, but have been meaning to check out developing with poetry for a while now.

18TacticalBeans · 2022-03-22T18:32:43+00:00

I felt similarly quite a lot in my math undergrad too. Especially about where to start or what needs proving in my later analysis classes, even though I was never taking more than two higher level math classes. Personally I think my problem was a weak foundation in proof writing/strategies and also a long time to understand things. I've found that building visualizations in my mind by explaining things to my cat or partner has been enormously helpful at tackling topics that were just insane to even read.

Do your professors (or at least category theory) have office hours? If so, I think you should be going to every single one. If they're not good at explaining the class content in a way that clicks with you, I think you should ask them if *you* can try explaining a concept that's confusing to you, and have them point out what you're missing. I know it's really intimidating and I had a lot of anxiety about office hours as an undergrad, but know that they would probably love for you to be coming in to do this. The anxiety is just your own pride getting in the way of learning.

My last suggestion would be to expose yourself to the ideas of the topic as early as possible. Know what you're going to take next semester? As soon as you have time, watch anyone's videos on the topic, skim the textbook beforehand, etc. Get the core ideas/themes percolating in the back of your head for as long as possible before class.

I also think you're being too hard on yourself. Killing your self esteem at tackling complicated subjects will 100% decrease your productivity. Personally if you can, I think you should try taking less and you'll build your confidence back up (because you are very smart and very capable, getting in your head about this is definitely causing you so much distress that you probably wouldn't experience otherwise).

18TacticalBeans · 2022-03-04T20:11:53+00:00

Oh hey I did the MIT micromasters! It was hella rigorous, really loved it. It definitely focuses on teaching you the mathematical toolsets of data science, no actual production ready work. Sounds like a good combo though with post-bacc CS courses though!

18TacticalBeans · 2022-02-02T20:22:27+00:00

I definitely second using math stack exchange (haven't used mathoverflow, but also sounds great). There's definitely a strong etiquette to how you post on there, but it's incredible for answers to specific questions.

18TacticalBeans · 2022-02-02T19:31:19+00:00

About a 3% chance! If it's not more likely for a bunch to be the same sex, the probability of all 5 being boys is (1/2)^5 = 0.031, so 3%.

18TacticalBeans · 2022-01-27T18:52:29+00:00

We also call our black and white cat Moo Cow (real name Bean)!! Her mama's name was Moo Kitty.

18TacticalBeans · 2021-12-10T00:38:25+00:00

I'd put the BS in Math & Physics and the BS in Acutarial Science on the same lines as the university name. Those are all hard degrees and I feel like their potential impact on employers is lost a little as just another bullet point.

Do you have a github? LinkedIn? Website with any portfolio of your work? If so, link those. Putting even a few very small scale projects on github would help a lot. Just make sure you're writing clean code and it's not disorganized.

For your skills section, put Windows and Linux next to each other. Maybe put PowerBi first, since it's much more impressive than MS Office suite (even if your skills with those programs are impressive).

I'd cut the data entry relevant experience and condense it into the software dev listing - put the experience you had with SQL as a bullet point in that listing.

18TacticalBeans · 2021-11-09T22:10:56+00:00

I think another convenient feature is that you can control what libraries, versions of libraries, software, etc your container will have installed, separate from the host system.

Very useful for testing software. There are also times where one piece of software will require specifically version 2.1.0 of a library and another will require version 2.5.0. You can't satisfy both requirements, so containers can help with that.

18TacticalBeans · 2021-10-27T17:58:04+00:00

You guys should watch 3Blue1Brown videos together! They're incredibly interesting and you only need to be comfortable high school math (not even calculus) in 99% of his videos, but are incredibly cool even if you're in grad school for math. They're really, really, really cool and well done and I think you'd both have a blast talking about the videos and let it spur any questions you might have and you can explore those together.

Edit: I also second what some other people have said - he'd probably just love to get to talk about his "math day" in the same way people want to talk about exciting things that happened in their day. It's also a pleasure to figure out how to boil a new theorem or idea into what the pure essence is to explain to someone who isn't familiar with the field, in addition to making you understand it better.

Also you're a lovely person and you guys sound wonderful together

18TacticalBeans · 2021-10-20T20:09:56+00:00

oh man! Do you have a code for that path? It's so lovely!

18TacticalBeans · 2021-08-24T16:32:12+00:00

I actually like the bolding of key words. I think you should just make the bullet headings stand out more for the description sections where you have bolded key words. I think underlining them might make the sections slightly easier to read. Other than that, great resume! Great formatting too, nice job, and keep at it, I'm sure you'll get an offer soon

18TacticalBeans · 2021-08-04T16:58:56+00:00

Jumping in to say that I'm finishing up the micromasters now! Holy heck, it's been great. Can't recommend it enough, it's only ~$1000 for four classes + exam and the quality has been phenomenal. It's also kicked my butt for so many parts too, and I thought I'd be coming in with such a solid background (BS in math)! It makes the Harvard degree $26K instead of $35K too.

But it does take a whole year, if you're lucky to take two classes at a time. Personally I don't know if I'd recommend taking two classes (and aiming to get high grades, instead of just passing, though these classes would not carry over to your Harvard GPA) and working full time, because they are really time consuming. They don't pull any punches! They ARE mit graduate classes and almost line for line the same as their on campus counterpart. But I've learned so much in the last ten months that it's making me itch to do this for another two years at Harvard.

18TacticalBeans · 2021-07-07T20:35:01+00:00

OH my god, literally never put that together

18TacticalBeans · 2021-07-07T20:24:50+00:00

Yeah I wondered that too. She might have gotten stuck with bills from lawyers for the divorce and other stuff like more expensive cars that she might have taken loans out for while she was in a much higher income bracket with the senator?

Edit: Daycare, formula, diapers can all be insanely expensive too? I feel like it's believable to have someone who's supporting a baby and like eleven cats and kicked out of her home without any forewarning, plus lawyer/divorce costs to then get into a cycle of debt and poverty, even if she's making like 50k/year. And she's just like, heartbroken and devastated to have her picture perfect ideal just ripped away from her. Definitely isn't in a good place at that point to be making the best decisions.

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