Anna's Training Log Part 2 (Part 1)

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Graph Theory is pretty cool; I use it every now and then for algorithmic optimization purposes. You can go quite far down the rabbit hole in terms of its application!

edit: Linear Algebra is pretty straight forward. There’s no real “gotcha’s” that can make life difficult in that area.

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Yeah!!
I want to do social network analysis and thought it would be really good understand the mathematical foundations.

First lecture was yesterday and the first example was Shannon capacity. I’m a sucker for anything that has to do with information so that really got me excited.

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That’s cool. Bound to be a whole bunch of articles/videos available on that topic. Have fun with it!

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May I ask what you work on?

I go to a school very very well known for its computer science department

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I’m an optimization scientist first and a software engineer second. The dept I work in, you need to be able to wear both hats. This is the guy who heads up all Operations Research at Amazon; and my managers manager.

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Oh damn!! That’s awesome. It must be so nice to get to do research in an industry job

I have a couple of classmates who are SWEs at Amazon… they aren’t in operations though.

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Yep. I dabbled in the sustainable energy part of research first 1.5 years out of college, but it was so goddamn tedious and not very engaging. Being able to see stuff you work on, going live and impacting millions of orders is goddamn cool. Maybe take a look at Ops Research :wink:

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Who knows maybe?
Combining behavioural science with ops research sounds interesting, but I don’t know enough about ops research

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Week 1: day 2 (Wednesday)

1hr weighted walk-25lbs in pack

  • went up some stairs during this one, got hr up but kept it easy

Week 1: day 3 (yesterday)

Deadlift: 1x8-70,80,90kg; 3x5-105kg
Dead bugs: 5x13/side
Conventional dl: 4x5-90kg, superset w/20alt body weight lunges
Bench: 1x10-35, 1x8-40,45, 3x6-50, 2x6-45kg
Front raises: 4x12-10lb dbs
Snatch grip dl: 1x3-80kg, 2x10-60kg

  • this was…. Very hard, disappointed at how heavy 105kg felt but ig that’s what I get… rest of it was fine, still hate bench

Update:

  1. Dietary adherence isn’t the best. Went off the rails with cheese again… oops
  2. I taught one of my maths friends gym basics. It was fun
  3. Real analysis problem set released yesterday. This is going to be a grind….
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Nice

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I try not to be too lazy….

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I took optimization as a graduate course for my MS and it was probably my favorite grad course. The math and methods are quite interesting.

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Ha! I see what you did there! :+1:

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Week 1: day 4

55min weighted walk-25lbs in pack

  • took this one easy, super super sore

Updates:

  1. I got an interview request from UCLA. I’m pretty happy. Now time to read papers like mad to prep.

  2. Holy shite maths is hard. Idk how the maths majors do it. Graph theory and real 2 are flying over my head. Good thing I have a robust support network. Linear algebra isn’t too bad yet. The computation is just tedious and for some reason, those minus signs never show up in the right places……

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Week 1: day 5 (yesterday)

Squat: 1x4-50,60,70; 3x6-80kg
Deadlift: 1x4-80,90,100, 1x3-110, 2x2-120kg, 2x3-115lbs
Conventional dl: 3x6-80kg
Lying leg raise: 5x24
Conditioning: 3x10, 3x12, 3x14- alt 1 arm kbs, 40lb kb, EMOM

  • doesn’t look like much but this took damn near 2hrs… the top set was way harder than I would have liked- I used to be able to do sets of 5 at 120 but not surprised after taking a month off deadlifting and having deadlifted only 2 days prior, squats were smooth
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Big update:

I crushed my first grad school interview yesterday. They seemed really impressed with me. The programme actually sounds a lot nicer than I expected and I didn’t get weird family vibes from these two profs.
This is now actually a major contender

I still have to meet a third prof later this week, but things are looking very good.

The only downside of choosing this programme would be living in LA instead of San Diego

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As a San Diego native and snob, this is inexcusable!

But I am excited for you regardless.

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Week 2: day 1

Squat: 1x5-50,60,70; 3x5-80kg, all beltless
Lying leg raises: 4x13/side
Good mornings: 5x5-60kg, superset w/24alt body weight lunges
Bench: 1x10-35, 1x8-40, 1x6-45,1x6-50kg; 2x3-55kg, paused
Conditioning: 6x(5db cleans/side-45lb db+ 10pushups+ 20alt body weight lunges)

  • felt pretty good going in- definitely still riding a high, squats were very smooth but wrecked after, good mornings and bench were a slog, conditioning was fun but tough
  • I was completely wiped after this workout, I need to work on my conditioning
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I got a request for first round interview at HBS (Harvard Business School)!!!

@SvenG @T3hPwnisher

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Congrats on that! Hope it goes well.

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