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Spring 2025. I’m starting a PhD in Computer Science at SIUE.
Four months post-stage-4 diagnosis. Fourteen months post-math-masters defense. With uncertain time horizons and clear research priorities.
This isn’t a traditional PhD …
September 2024. The cancer is back. Stage 4. Metastatic.
May/June 2024: Started showing symptoms again. Something wasn’t right.
August 2024: Colonoscopy found tumor in small bowel.
September 2024: First chemo treatment. That’s when they …
The Weibull distribution models time-to-failure. In reliability engineering, that’s component lifetimes. In medicine, it’s survival times.
I’ve been studying Weibull distributions for my thesis on series system reliability. Then I …
I was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer. Surgery scheduled for December 31st—literally the last day of 2020.
Fitting end to a difficult year.
I’m not going to use this space for medical details or false optimism. Instead, I want to think about what …