Kristina chodorow biography

I started programming when I was 20.

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My original college plan was to major in mathematics and become a saxophonist (I didn’t feel like starving while I tried to make it as a musician).

Luckily, I had a crush on a computer science major so I tagged along with him to a programming team meeting.

Progteam blew my mind: programming was like math, only fun! Majoring in math made me feel smart and dignified, but it was never like “Wow, this it fun.” It was more like “Ow, my brain hurts, but I guess it’s building brain muscles…”

It turned out I was good at computer science, so I decided (somewhat randomly) that I was getting into MIT for grad school, dammit.

Kristina chodorow biography

I knew they’d want to see research, so I asked a professor to mentor an independent research project. Over the next year, I did researched a classic optimization algorithm and wrote a paper on an algorithm I came up with to improve its performance for certain cases.

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