Seeing the Light at the End of the Tunnel

In the past week, I met with my mentor and began the final stages of my final product. I’m happy that my model has done reasonably well across several benchmarks, and I will likely write a report and then perhaps a longer paper to submit my results to the Therapeutic Data Commons leaderboard. Before that, however, I am making a scientific poster to detail my methodology and results. Before I started, I wanted to meet early with my mentor to understand how a coding project could be written as a study. After meeting over Zoom on Friday, I got a better idea of how to tune my model for each benchmark and how to design my poster—I was all ready to write the hyperparameter tuning code so it could be run on the SMU supercomputer. However, I did not get much work done at all this weekend. Early Saturday morning, I had to leave for UTA for Chemistry Olympiad. My test went alright but taking it in-person was definitely an upgrade. I didn’t have long to think about it because I had my rescheduled birthday party that night—almost a month after my actual birthday. The next night, I tutored and went to a concert, and the next thing I knew, I was at school working on my final product again.