This post marks the opening of my blog titled “Notes of a Graduate Student”! It is also the same name I gave to a series of journals, currently sitting at my desk, detailing my thoughts as a graduate student from “How could I have taught this class differently?” to “Oh god my midterm score just came out.” I do not have a set plan for this blog but I did want to set it up over winter break. It does look nice. It’s also funny that I basically am spending winter break replacing the website I just made via sites.gatech.edu, but I think using this template will have more benefits than my sites.gatech.edu website. I can even do \(\LaTeX\) in it!

\begin{equation} \label{eq:cutemessages} \text{you} = \text{cutie} \end{equation}

and write some code:



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public static void main(String[] args){
    %Code taken from https://www.programiz.com/java-programming/basic-input-output
    Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
    	
    System.out.print("Enter an integer: ");
    int number = input.nextInt();
    System.out.println("You entered " + number);

    // closing the scanner object
    input.close();
}

Not that I think I’m going to do code anytime soon… I am experienced in coding in Java and JavaScript, but I am taking time to focus on academic duties. I would like to do coding on the side if I get the chance.

Here are some images. The left one is zoomable, the right one is not.

A simple, elegant caption looks good between image rows, after each row, or doesn't have to be there at all.

Here’s a quote that is completely unrelated to this blog but is helping me manage my pandemic-induced anxiety (and I try to think about when I get overwhelmed).

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. —Seneca

Finally, this blog post was meant as a writing exercise on how to blog - al-folio left a bunch of example posts and this post was a way for me to create a concise demo of al-folio posts so I’ll be prepared to use them in the future.