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Look At Me When I’m Talking to You”: Why Phone Bans Fail and What to Do Instead

I get why some people roll their eyes at yet another adult talking about phones. So let’s start with music, not school. Artists from Adele to Bob Dylan have tried “no-phone” shows, and Sabrina Carpenter recently said she’s seriously considering it after experiencing the difference at a Silk Sonic concert. “It might piss off my…

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Research in College: 6 Inspiring Lessons I Learned

What does “college research” actually mean? Before this summer, I thought it was just a buzzword — something tour guides bragged about and brochures plastered across glossy photos. Then I spent ten weeks at Argonne National Lab doing high-performance computing research, and it clicked. I worked on integrating AMD’s GPU library (RCCL) into MPICH, one…

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5 Things I’ve Learned in the Impact Fellowship

For those of you who don’t know, I’m in curaJOY’s impact fellowship. We are creating an annotated data set, algorithm, and intervention system for cyberbullying. It will be the first one of its kind made 100% by gen z. Our hope is that with our lived experience of the modern world, we will be able…

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