asked if the computing fellows assisting my course could send photos for the intro slides, but only one person did. Guess the rest will be represented by Gertrude trying to break out of the carrier at the vet 😅
Singing time 🎶🎶
KeyGen outputs a salted key
(this is a French joke)
TEXAS TEXAS TEXAS TEXAS 🤠🤠🤠🤠
sorry guys, Mom says I can't have more than 10 parties
funniest part about telling people I went to school in Boston is when they assume I'm being modest about going to MIT or something. Nah, just a Northeastern girly who got figured it was easier to say Boston area than correcting "Northwestern" all the time 😅
Dept admin: how large whiteboard do you want?
Me: I want as much whiteboard as possible!
Dept admin: ok... (Starts raising the tape measure to the ceiling)
Me: wait no I'm not THAT tall
My parents every time we drive by a patch of grass in ny: "is this central park?"
My mom loves referring to Gertrude as "madam"/"madam Gertrude"/"madam nosey" but Ruby as just "Ruby"
Mom to cat: you're really making yourself at home here
Me: this is her home
Mom: oh, right
Is the circuit reachable? Can
"I believe we have lost our appreciation of soggy foods"
💀💀💀
I don't think this was supposed to be my takeaway from eurocrypt 😅
"what does TCC stand for? In my head it stands for 'the cryptography conference' but I know that's not it"
at the airport and overheard this girl explaining that she doesn't like the view from the top of the Eiffel tower because "the best part of the view of paris IS the eiffel tower, and when you're up there you can't see it"
Me presenting project ideas: I'm not sure if this is too ambitious for a summer... Hopefully it's not...
Undergrad: I've never seen this before, so I don't know either
Tomorrow @wangxiao1254.bsky.social is giving a talk about a recent garbled circuit work, and I told my friends there will be lots of jokes...
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guys.. I'm gonna be a professor??? so so so so excited to be announce I've accepted an offer to join Barnard College as an assistant professor of computer science!!
AHHHHHHH
DO NOT PINCH ME I DON'T WANNA WAKE UP
Used the Kendrick/Drake beef in the intro slides of a talk, and afterwards I got someone very excitedly wanting to talk about the entire lore of it with me 😅
I was trying to figure out how to find the actual signature on one of my git commits, and my friend made fun of the length of time between my "where is this thing..." and "found it" messages 😔
tbh my favorite mix-up was someone who thought I was doing my PhD at Case Western
I'll never escape the Northeastern/Northwestern mix-ups
My parents don't know how to interact with cats, which leads to the funniest conversations when they're visiting.. for example the other day I had to tell my mom that if Gertrude is trying to bite her, it means she doesn't want to be pet 😭
real feedback I received on this slide: "I didn't understand the dead fish in the beginning. It was so oddly specific I kept expecting it to show up later in the talk"
(It was supposed to be a joke about how lots of dating profiles like to have pictures of people holding fish)
possibly my dumbest intro/setting slide for a talk yet
throwback to when my commuter train caught on fire put into perspective all the metaphorical fires 🙃
I went through a phase of changing my name in signal to ridiculous things until a friend kindly informed me that signal informs your group chats every time there's a name change 😭
