jtech-example.csv

,name,,,,,,,,,,,,,,one,summary
,Joseph,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Fine,"Joseph spent a lot of time thinking about MIT's fall decision. His thoughts sway between deciding what to do and feeling comforted that at least he'll have an apple pencil to make up for not being on campus. :|

Joseph has been enjoying his UROP - there are some interesting technical challenges in making the code nice and general and also multithreadable.

Joseph's also been doing prep stuff for the Drawception Hillel event THIS SUNDAY NIGHT FROM 8-9 PM (shameless plug)."
,Tamar,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Fine,"Tamar is pretty proud of the fact that she's consistently woken up before 10 during these past few weeks. She knows she's going to have to start waking up a whole lot earlier than that when she starts her job while still in Central time, so she's enjoying her last few weeks of freedom.

She made a new tofu recipe that her and her mom both liked, so she's happy that she can add something new to her repertoire. Unfortunately, her dad and younger brother are both picky eaters, so most of the time when Tamar makes food, they refuse to eat it. But they liked the banana bread she made (though, honestly, who doesn't like banana bread?).

Tamar got a pair of rollerblades! She'd had here eye on them for the past few months and finally broke down and got them. It's been a while since she was on skates of any sort and even longer since she rollerbladed (try 13 years?!) and it turns out that asphalt is slightly different than ice! Who knew. It's definitely a learning curve, and Tamar didn't also get a set of knee pads and wrist guards and whatnot, so her fear of falling makes it a lot harder to learn. (There's probably a good metaphor in there about only being able to be confident to try new things when we properly protect ourselves, but she'll leave the rest of that thought as an exercise to the reader.)

Hank Green's new book, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor, came out this week! It's the second and final book to the series he started in 2018. It's been a while since she started a book knowing that she'd enjoy it, and it didn't disappoint! Usually she'd save books for Shabbat, but her brother also wants to read the book, so since he's busy during the week, Tamar wanted to finish it in time for him to read it over Shabbat."
,Sarah,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Good,"Sarah's week: 
Friday: Parsha with Boaz (the Para Aduma wasn't firetruck red, who knew? not Sarah), Hamilton viewing #1 with the fam. 
Shabbat: Sarah's whole fam went to shul (outdoors, distanced, with masks), then came back home and had delicious lasagna rollups. 
Sunday: Spanish with Savta, learning Horayot with her friend Dina (they're almost done so b'ezrat hashem there will be a siyum soon!), socially distant BBQ with family friends, and Hamilton viewing #2 with high school friends (see Sarah's review for more details).
Monday: Work as usual, Sarah's hopefully starting the next stage of her main project soon, but awaiting IT approval, so she'll see. Started Avatar.
Tuesday: HSB (Hillel Student Board) meeting--she'll catch you all at Joseph's Drawception event on Sunday, and some vchats trying to figure out housing.
Wednesday: Went to a very inspiring class with Rabbi Burger, where she was reminded that: 1. She is a human being, and should spend time thinking about and striving to be a good human, and not get too sucked up in productivity/day-to-day worries. 2. Sometimes when you feel a hole, or something you're missing, it's important to pay attention to that lack and not try to immediately distract from it via Netflix and sugar. (Obviously the class had more nuance and eloquence, but Sarah is writing this towards the end of the fast day, so forgive her.)
Thursday: She put that lesson into some action and had a really good conversation with Ronit and Gila in the morning. Sarah started work early and worked through lunch so she could end early. She then chilled on a couch and did nothing until her chavruta with Simon. She is now sitting on a different couch and has just remembered that she was going to donate to Mazon, a non-profit that works to increase food access for those who needs it, which is becoming a fast day tradition of hers, but her credit card was upstairs, so she's going to submit this and then go do that.
Sarah wishes you all a shabbat shalom and hopes you stay safe."
,Nina,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Good,"This week was good.
-Marie (Nina's friend) surprised Nina all the way in New Jersey on Monday. They got some ice cream which was fun. 
- Nina officially claimed the domain Nina.mit.edu. Right now it has nothing on it. Long term Nina will probably make it into a personal website for job applications. Initially Nina was going to attempt to do all the html/css herself but then Joseph suggested she use a template and now Nina has to make a decision.
-Nina finished Game of Thrones (finally). Nina kinda liked the ending.
-Nina started reading ""In The Shadow of Blackbirds"" which she doesn't really like so far but still intends to finish. Nina has been trying to read some of the random unread books she has in her room instead of always taking books out from the library. 
-Nina has a coding challenge she has to do. It has a coding portion and a math portion and is a total of 3 hours long. Nina isn't super confident in her coding or math skills so she is kinda worried. However, she took an hour-long practice test which she thinks went ok. Hopefully by the time you are reading this Nina will have done it. 
-Nina's internship has been pretty meh. They finally gave her something to do but then it turns out there was long a long list of reasons why it would never work (none of which were Nina's fault). Nina wished they had told her this before she had spent some time tryna figure it out and debug unsuccessfully. Nina switched from python to Matlab and then back to python. She has a meeting tomorrow morning to see if she can finally get stuff working."
,Josh,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Good,"Eventful! Having another person on the team is really nice. Made a lot of progress in research this week – moving on to the physical drone! Pushing for another paper deadline in two months, which is pretty tight to build a whole physical system, might be a bad idea. Outside of work: bought a fly rod! Excited to try it when some (ebay) flies arrive. Caught a nice bass in the Mystic river in front of some impressed people. Last but not least, camping in the Adirondacks this weekend with friends! Downside, lost some camping gear since the last trip."
,Avital,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Good,"Weekend: Avital was scared she would be left all alone while her roommates spent the holiday weekend with their families/boyfriends. However, she ended up choosing to third wheel the roommate+boyfriend (as opposed to the roommate+family) all the way to Plymouth which was awesome. The day was filled with beach, food, new friends (outdoors only!), and lots of fireworks. She really wasn't quite a third wheel in the end because they hung out with a bunch of the boyfriend's childhood friends. They came home at midnight which for Avital's apartment is super later, because they're used to waking up no later than 8am everyday. 
Monday: Avital's family celebrated her mom's 40th birthday (it was actually on Tuesday but yknow). She spent hours on whatsapp video calls with her sister, guiding her and keeping her company as she decorated the house, baked a cake, and prepared all the food for the bbq. Their mom thought it was just gonna be a simple dinner with a little bit of family, so she was surprised by all the balloons and and the crown+sash they got her. Little did she know that the real surprise was after dinner. The fam(+Avital) had set up the basement with popcorn, and movie/hollywood type decor in order to watch a 1 hour video of people wishing her happy birthday (like long heartfelt wishes). They got videos from 90 people, from people she hadn't seen in years, and from every family member they can think of. Avital enjoyed watching her mom watch the video over zoom and spending the hour laughing and crying together. 
Rest of the week: Avital hung out with Mocha on Zoom, ate a lot of ice cream, worked a bunch, stressed about housing decisions, and started HIGHKEY stressing about preparing for life after college during a pandemic. Avital also spent 84 hours in her apartment without leaving which was a bad decision. When she finally left on Thursday morning, Avital decided it was a good time to continue training so she ran 7 miles. Except that it was extremely hot and sunny so she pushed herself to kinda run 3.5 miles, but got so tired/hot/exhausted/probably dehydrated that no amount of will power was able to make her run again. So, she walked the 3.5 miles back and was super late for work.
That is all."
,Akiva Gordon,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Fine,"Akiva's week was pretty chill, but also kind of frustrating. He also found out that the kickstarter game he backed (Spirit Island: Jagged Earth) was delayed in delivery 3 months (August to November), which is kind of a bummer. His lab work has been a series of experiments he planned to start and then couldn't because the lab was missing a common reagent. On the bright side, moving to Cambridge has been nice and generally returning to a more normal work life is a huge boon for Akiva's sanity. He does miss all of you scattered around the world and not being at MIT, though."