Lola's Research

 Meant to post over the weekend, but that didn't end up happening. That's ok, I still wanted to post about how my week went. This week felt overwhelming, as I really started to feel the weight of everything I have to juggle to maintain a healthy balance in my lifestyle. Every time I cross a boundary that I told myself I wasn't going to cross anymore, I feel like I'm betraying myself, and that I'm one step closer to losing myself like it already happened before. I never want to compromise my nutrition, sleep, or mental health just to perform in the way I feel is expected of me, because in the past those expectations were just impossible to reach, and I don't ever again want to place my worth on my academic performance. For some reason, tapping back into productivity mode this week felt unbearable. Something in me rejected that state, and I think that’s why it’s been impossible to focus. The day slips by, and I realize I haven’t even done half of what I wanted to....

Good progress on the first week of the semester! Here’s a little recap of what I got done: With moby2 and Dpipe installed correctly, I was able to start running (or trying to run) the intro notebook from the Dpipe examples directory. Joseph pointed out that running the notebook wasn’t gonna to work, since that example was created for a previous version of Dpipe and some functions are no longer there or are even called differently now. He suggested I try to adapt it to the current version of Dpipe. I practiced by opening Python and calling the Dpipe functions I saw used in the code, trying to understand what they do. Using the  help(function)  command helped a lot too, but this took me a WHILE. I definitely feel a little rusty with code, but I’m excited to keep making progress. I have to acknowledge that starting something new is probably going to be really slow, but I’m trying my best and hope to get into the rhythm of it quickly. I also had a chat with Caleigh about running D...