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Building Third Spaces
I just moved back to the New York City commuter area (nowhere Northern NJ) and I hate it here. The fact that my family grew up in this area or that my brother and mom live with me do little to assuage the problem. Personally – it’s because of how inhabitable the built environment is…
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Programming: K-Sum
One type of problem that consistently stumps me when solving LeetCode questions has to do with finding unique sub-arrays of a longer array and then checking something about those sub-arrays. Let’s break down the concept of finding the number of combinations that sum up to a target, also known as the k-sum problem. To find…
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{{Launch School Edition}}: The Importance of Paying Attention
Around two years ago, I was asked to complete a personality assessment that included DiSC®. DiSC® is a personal assessment tool used to help improve teamwork, communication, and productivity in the workplace on four behaviors: dominance, influence, steadiness and compliance. High compliance scores are associated with analytical, detail oriented, andcautious learners. Low C’s tend to…
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A Change of Heart
Today I will be honest. This blog is a lie. I’m not premed anymore, and I’m not going back. After doing a lot of soul-searching, I’ve come to the conclusion that I do want to help people, just not in a clinical setting. I could use my talents, my mind, for something far grander: telling…
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Organic Chemistry I: Tips for Mechanism
These are the only notes I understand from my organic chemistry class 😦 Hopefully you can make better sense of it than I can!
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Organic Chemistry: Rules for Resonance Structures
Organic chemistry makes me believe that there is a God. Even within the same structure, there’s many possibilities of other structures. I don’t care how they’ve explained it. The overlaps between p orbitals is simply divine.
Nico Addai 