Tyga Helme, No Intention but to be, 2020, Chalk pastel on Paper

Updates

It's been a couple of months since I last sent out this letter, which is not ideal, but my energy towards publishing (and writing for that matter), was not where it needed to be due to a lot of schoolwork and other personal matters I needed to attend to.

Updates

Classes and work have both started again. Excited to focus this semester on the topics of both qualitative and quantitative research and intelligent interface systems (AI). People in my friend group further along in the program are starting to focus on their portfolios and apply for internships or jobs. Although I'm personally not at this point quite yet, I've gotten a sort of contact high of priority for my own portfolio.

Guilt Flows

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Well, we made it. Finished my first semester of grad school with just a few bumps and scrapes along the way. There were some difficult times, lots of work, but all around good experiences as well as new people I'm very grateful to have met. As I write this I'm waiting to board a plane to head back to Arizona for a few weeks and get some TLC.

If you're still around, I'd like to thank you for reading these letters and hope you'll continue to do so in the new year. This next semester will hopefully be less *gestures widely* and I'll be able to spend a bit more time writing and working on the projects I've pretty much neglected this semester.

New Year, New Me

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Over halfway through the semester now, so I have a decent idea of what it's like to be a grad student (it's a lot of work). Luckily, I'm fascinated by much of what I'm learning, and can see how I can apply what I learn to my job and other interests.

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"Everything not saved will be lost." - Nintendo "Quit Screen" Message

So I wrote this edition of the newsletter in near it's entirety, but due to some technical issues it's decided to stay out back to finish a beer. I suppose this is my version of "my dog ate my homework" although it's actually "AWS ate my newsletter." In lieu of what I was going to write about this time, please enjoy some updates, nice artwork, and a snippet of what I recently read.

Additionally, I'm still working on a new short story (off and on), and a new essay (even more off and on). I'm hoping to finish the story before the essay - but you'll be the first to know when any of it reaches the finish line.

Hi! I’m Zach and this is the Contemplation Corner newsletter containing updates, blog posts, and interesting things from me.

This is the very first newsletter I've sent out, so good on you for being ahead of the curve. I'm new to this whole email-specific thing, so I'll be working to make it look and feel a bit better going forward.

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