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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

hope you brought waterproof shoes to wade in my stream of consciousness !

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

sometimes i think my career is over and done for and then i remember i am twenty years old

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4 years

wait, you’re passionate about the intersection of technology, problem solving, and social change too??! no way

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@katmhuang

2 years

fuck, marry, kill: model, view, controller

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3 years

high school: i have interdisciplinary interests, cool! college: ah fuck, i am bad at all disciplines

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3 years

me: *has a personal website* people: *go on my website* me: omg that’s so embarrassing 🙈

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@katmhuang

4 years

imagine being Growth @ Roman Empire,,, M&A @ British Empire

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

i'm open to summer '21 internships, especially in data journalism, newsroom engineering, and startups in media, education, or civic tech! spent too much time on this 2-minute intro video about my technical skills ✨

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

5 years

Representation in #scicomm is important because it’s often not the facts that are the problem—it’s the messenger. We shouldn’t focus on finding “the one science communicator to rule them all” but rather cultivating communicators that represent diverse groups. #scitalk19

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

4 years

start an org called Girls Who Don’t Code for women in the no-code space

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

5 years

I'm going to MIT in less than 2 months and just forgot what an exponent was

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

if there’s syntactic sugar what other kinds of syntactic seasoning are there

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

5 years

got rejected from a tech for social good fellowship so now i guess it's time to become a quant analyst

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@katmhuang

3 years

wow turns out if i try to do many thing i end up doing no thing

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@katmhuang

3 years

this is an on-brand several-days-late birthday tweet

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

4 years

life would be so much easier if i just wanted to be a software engineer at FAANG 😞

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

5 months

[this is not advice] 2023 was crazy

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

not me storing the entirety of my college career in my Downloads folder

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

thrilled to announce that today i’m doing the absolute bare minimum

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

today a boy talked to me in a bookstore what a thrilling trope

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

4 years

how do people who study CS in college usually learn web development, especially front-end? schools don't usually offer that as a class afaik?

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@katmhuang

2 years

i wonder how many common app essays about crypto there are this year

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

2 years

are you a techie considering blogging & unsure where to start? worry not, here's a 5-point outline for your 1st post: 1. mildly quirky greeting 2. why i've held myself back from writing before 3. why i want to write now 4. (optional) blogging frequency goal 5. optimistic closing

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

1 year

what is it with tech men and recreationally taking typing speed tests

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

the high school women in tech awards to college humanities major pipeline

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@katmhuang

3 years

my neighbor Zotero

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

i wanna build solo software projects in a social way but not in a hacker house/camp way and not in a tech for social impact fellowship way and not in debugging a lab in office hours way and not in a

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

4 years

elon musk said teens from @hackclub asked better questions than mainstream media. what would be possible if powerful ppl were presented w interesting questions more often? how can asking good questions be learned/taught? more quick thoughts from the AMA:

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

ring? delivered. halfway thru mit!

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

life hack 👏 wear these pants while walking to your midterm, accumulate 5 compliments about the pants on the way, feel good while taking midterm because you just got a bunch of compliments

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

I want to video call my friends almost all the time and I have no idea if that feeling is reciprocated

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

8 months

project management tool alignment chart

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

5 years

@rashiq stanford (campus tour participant)

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

school is truly designed to bring out the most mediocre in me 🥰

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

4 years

I wholeheartedly believe that it's fine (& good!) for one's interests to evolve, especially early in college. I've noticed a few strangers use my fluid interests to delegitimize & criticize me. doesn't seem right that ppl are made to feel bad about something that isn't bad 🥴

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

cracking open a coding interview with the boys

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

4 years

cannot believe time has the audacity to be 2:30am rn

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

5 years

Scientists and engineers are perceived to have competence, but not warmth. How do we fix that? Bring our full selves—our humor, emotions, and personalities—into our work. - @webmz_ #scitalk19

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

4 years

*insert joke about studying advanced algorithms just to get a job vertically centering divs*

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

4 years

@ronaywang alleviating the world’s most pressing problems one trade, iOS app, and slide deck at a time

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

4 years

i think i'm looking pretty hireable wdyt?

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

5 years

Science communicators should be focused on communities first. Focus not on “what I want you to know” but rather “what might you want or need to know?” In science, this is a total paradigm shift. #scitalk19

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

4 years

anyone wanna start a math camp for ppl who are mediocre at math? i feel like HS Math Camp(TM) can be highly impactful & valuable for growth & making friends, but if you didn't know about or compete in math olympiads in HS, you never have that access to that opportunity again

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

9 months

one of my least favorite operations to think about when programming is `index = yCoordinate * numColumns + xCoordinate` like this shit just blows

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

5 years

can i raise VC funding to pay for college lol

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

4 years

it's probably a problem that every time — and i mean *every* time — i'm asked for a resume, i re-make my entire resume

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

2 years

how do grad students do it (not the grad school part, the “do well enough in undergrad to get into grad school” part)

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

i go thru life and be like “woah that would be a cool essay topic” at like everything i see/experience

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

4 years

gonna make this the 404 page for my personal website

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

my big hairy audacious goal for the semester is to sleep enough such that the eye bags i’ve had since late high school disappear

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

i am going to learn functional programming and ascend to my next form

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

I spontaneously wrote about my parents’ favorite hobby (grocery shopping) and some consumer culture musings for my personal newsletter tonight. I thought it was weird but interesting & has potential, so I’m sharing it publicly:

Grocery hoping

There are two things I think my dad could write books about

reading.supply

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

my main professional goal rn? go to sleep before 3am

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

4 years

pushed my in-progress portfolio to production, is this what the kids call ✨ building in public ✨

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

sorry mom can't talk i'm writing an immigrant diaspora piece about u

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

4 years

in my attempt to find a work-life balance this summer, i have acquired a work-work balance... oops

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

4 years

still chasing that high i got from learning about the javascript ternary operator for the first time

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

2 years

my first time designing a UI* (still not quite done) *i've "designed" all the websites i've built before but the design process has always been virtually non-existent, this was the first time that was not the case

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@katmhuang

2 months

the sentence "you can do hard things" changed my life and i say this in the most earnest way possible

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

qualitative low-frequency trading

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

i feel like there are so many classes i want to take and not enough semesters left for me. people who have finished college and felt this before, how did you handle this / come to see this dilemma?

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

2 years

twenty-one*

-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

sometimes i think my career is over and done for and then i remember i am twenty years old

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

week 1 @recursecenter : I finished prototyping , an interactive explainer about IP addresses! shoutout to @theombl , @lachlanjc , & the Recurse folks I just paired with to refactor the binary explorer

Out of IPs

What's an IP address? How are they allocated? Are we running out? An interactive explainer by Kat Huang.

outofips.netlify.app

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

1 year

it should be possible to gift someone a nap

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

hi twitter i'm back! in the meantime i got on track for my goodreads annual challenge, got my learner's permit (again), took a ballet class for the first time since 8th grade (wonderful!), wrote a 3500-word essay about Google Reader (coming soon?), and finished a Rough™ semester

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

bed bath and beyond stressed

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

4 years

but we also should talk abt how this often isn't their fault/choosing many girls who happen to have interest in/affinity for STEM are casted *by others* as Girls in STEM™, and Girls in STEM™ spaces, which have lots of resources, are designed to reward ppl like that

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

kat’s law: if the class can be skipped, it will be skipped

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

passed my first ever technical algorithmic interview….. confused

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

literally VS Code has a better PDF reader than Canvas

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@katmhuang

3 years

we're always visualizing the data but are the data visualizing us

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

4 years

anyone ever feel unsatisfied about not learning things "perfectly"? like i didn't learn physics E&M very deeply and i'm not sure what the most efficient/effective way to solidify my knowledge there is, short of redoing everything in the entire course

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

4 years

not sure if i should call my professor by their first name or last name or "professor _" or "dr. _" so i will simply ✨ not call them ✨

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

4 years

date idea: renew your MIT authentication certificates together 🥰

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@katmhuang

2 years

pls lol

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

4 years

felt empty so i went outside to Feel Something

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

7 months

making a syllabus for someone the way you'd make a mixtape for them

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

1 year

it’s a beautiful day to respond to your emails

-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

2 years

it’s a beautiful day to name your variables something more expressive than temp

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

2 years

notion is gen z's evernote i think

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

I want to write about my internship search process this year b/c I’ve learned a lot — switching up my goals, trying to bReAk iNtO a different industry, receiving lots of generous advice, making that “video resume” — but I’m not sure how much specifics I can/should reveal 1/2

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

5 months

hello 2024 just got humbled by a 10k 🙏

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

5 years

i came to mit to study the intersection of science, media, and society, and build a strong technical foundation to equip myself to make the world a better place today i am writing a choose-your-own-adventure story told from the point of view of a refrigerator

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

2 years

would anyone be interested in a casual lil (virtual) gathering where we try out software we’ve never used? been meaning to learn how to use @browsercompany ’s Arc which i got a few weeks ago & @Replit mobile app that just came out

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@katmhuang

2 years

it’s a beautiful day to name your variables something more expressive than temp

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@katmhuang

3 months

does anyone have suggestions for entry-level foods for beginners at eating?

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@katmhuang

4 years

hahaha i just applied for

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

listening to 2014 hozier at 2am with no (looming) responsibilities :)).....just spun up some private repos for cute side projects.....motivation to Do Things has returned home for the holidays now that i am no longer Obligated to do things 😎

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

4 years

JSON Desrouleaux

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

1 year

I wrote something honest, about something I've learned in college 🫶🥹

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

twitter exclusives

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

having an alt is like living in an apartment and chilling with myself or chatting with friends who come over. every now and then i go to the balcony and shout something at the street, and that is tweeting on main

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

hey babe i’m crawling the internet do u want any webpages

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

i just wanna go to a bookstore ._.

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

4 years

i say i need to re-learn how to cold email but really i never forgot i just need to summon the self-entitlement of a mediocre white man

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

4 years

“I’m really impressed with the questions, and I’m not one for false praise. I’m much more optimistic about the future after having this conversation with you guys. Keep fighting for what’s right and building things.”

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

4 years

Great questions from Hack Club!

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-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

3 years

preserve prose textbooks and end the utter disregard for the textbooks' paratext (tables of contents, prefaces, intros) that I experienced in my schooling — these are the very things that begin to adequately answer the oft-asked "why are we learning this? what is this all about?"

Helen Czerski

@helenczerski

3 years

A friend has just shown me this book "Calculus made easy", published in 1914, and I think it's got one of the best prologues I've ever seen. This is *exactly* what textbooks should be doing. And they should all be honest about how terrifying the topic names are too.