This past week I researched atom coloration in QSAR, wrote some code for my mentor, and attended Business Symposium. In my research, I focused on assessing how different atoms with a molecule contribute to the prediction of a certain property. Using various techniques, we can even generate a map of the molecule with atoms colored by their contributions. This allows chemists to verify models with existing knowledge and to discovery new trends. This week, I wrote some code to this end, but it was a struggle at first. I was unfamiliar with making pull requests, and I had to set up my environment with a linter and update several packages because it had been so long since I’d written Python code. Eventually, I figured it out and successfully contributed code to a repository. I also read several papers to get an idea about how this idea had been implemented before, and I wrote a research assessment over one of them.
I also attended Business Symposium last week for the second time. I enjoyed it better this year because it seemed to go by faster, though perhaps that’s because I was talking more and asking more questions. Still, some of the panels only answered a few questions whereas last year it seemed like they answered several more. During my mock interview, I received some useful advice about my resume, but otherwise I simply enjoyed a conversation with the professional in front of me—I do wish I had gotten his business card. Nevertheless, I met many students and connected with even more on LinkedIn, especially given how everyone at the Symposium stressed the importance of networking. Overall, I had a lot of fun talking to new people.
My long weekend was not quite as fun, since I had multiple weeks of calculus to catch up on, but I’m looking forward to a four-day week where I’ll continue to work on code for ISM.
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