Week 6

On week 6 I came down with a persistent stomach bug, I'm still not quite over it (~4 weeks later) so I hope you'll forgive me for not keeping up with this blog dear reader. But never fear! I'm back and will be happy to recount my time here. 


The original week 6 entry (that I didn't end up finishing) was about learning the programming language python. I have next to no experience with writing code but on talking with some of the people here at the university I realized that the ability to program is too useful a tool to not learn. I've begun to teach myself from YouTube videos and online articles. It's pretty cool! I've always been a fan of problem solving, and it seems that that's largely what programming is. 

In the future, I plan to use python to help analyze research data. The ability to automate data processing is just too useful to pass up. I've kept up with it these past few weeks, but I'd like to find some more interesting projects to do. That will be my goal for the future.

Sorry again for the lack of posts, and I'll see you next week!

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