Tag: phd
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My Toru Watanabe Moment
I have now been two weeks here in Nara. By this time I’ve started to settle into my new environment, picking up on the habits and routine that will define the next three years of my life. Though the cherry blossoms had already long bloomed and started to fade before I arrived, I was lucky…
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Flying Out
In the words of Michael Scott, I am not superstitious… but I am a little stitious. I have kept quiet about my PhD application journey throughout last year as I was worried that talking about it might jinx it in some way, that it might put a curse upon me somehow that negated everything I…
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Vertigo
I’m writing this a third of the way through my last month as knowledge management head, in-house data science and visualization expert, and all-around clown for the Quality Management division of Jollibee Worldwide Services (the services arm of the much bigger, much more delicious-sounding Jollibee Foods Corporation). It’s crazy to think that I’ve spent, as…
Dominic Dayta 