Two syntax tree LaTeX tricks
I still hate LaTeX, but I thought I’d share two tricks I found that help make syntax trees in forest look a little prettier.
Semester In Review #4
Okay, semester four was actually pretty hard. In three words, this semester was defined by delayed gratification and resilience.
Syntax trees to SVGs
I hate LaTeX. Problem is, the forest package is still the only way to make presentable syntax trees. So here’s a way to convert LaTeX trees into individual .svg files that can be inserted into your documents without getting all pixelated.
Semester In Review #3
Semester three was a doozy. Semester three felt like it was ten seconds long. Honestly, before I wrote this, I was feeling kind of crummy about how it turned out, but I wrote this introduction last, and you know what, it wasn’t that bad. Here’s what happened.
Semester In Review #2
Semester two’s in the books. (Already?)
Semester In Review #1
I’ve finished my first semester of grad school! What strikes me immediately is disbelief. I started my year unsure of whether this day would ever come, and now I’m 10% done with an entire PhD.
Agile for Academia
I used to work a software engineering job in industry. There, we used a collection of practices loosely organized under the buzzwordy umbrella term Agile to manage and schedule our work. Here’s how I’ve adapted those for solo use as a PhD student.