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+title: "Recently (May 2022)"
+date: 2022-05-15T21:19:35-04:00
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+**Professional:** I started my PhD program back in August 2021.
+So far, I've met many wonderful people including
+but not limited to the folks at the RAIR lab which
+I'm now a part of.
+
+For my first two semesters I was a teaching assistant.
+The first was Introduction to Computer Science and the
+second was Principles of Software.
+Both of these classes had what I would consider a large amount
+of students (> 300), which meant that there were multiple TAs
+splitting the class into smaller lab/recitation sections.
+Honestly those labs and recitations were the best part of the TAing experience.
+
+In Summer 2022, I will be at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, NY.
+I'm looking forward to having more research dedicated time.
+
+**Personal Life:** Living in Upstate NY, this is the coldest winter I've been through.
+There are many of you in far colder places, but I was not mentally prepared for the
+constant 15 degrees Fahrenheit weather.
+What helped keep me warm:
+- Window Insulator Kit (lowers the amount of heat escape)
+- Thermal underlayers (top and bottom)
+- Soup (Nice and warm)
+- Heated Blanket (much cheaper than a space heater)
+- Snow spikes (for hiking in the winter)
+
+Now that we're approaching summer again,
+I look forward to going on more hikes.
+You can check out some of the trails I completed on my
+[AllTrails profile](https://www.alltrails.com/members/brandon-rozek/completed).

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+title: "Recently (June 2024)"
+date: 2024-06-15T21:21:22-04:00
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+**Professional:** I'm well into the PhD program at this point. I've been fortunate enough to receive the NDSEG fellowship which funds my work, as well as many wonderful collaborators.
+
+This summer, I'm an applied scientist intern at Amazon Web Services. I work on the [Cedar project](https://www.cedarpolicy.com/) which is under Automated Reasoning in Identities. I'm especially excited at the oppurtunity to write Lean code.
+
+
+**Personal Life:** For the internship, I moved out to San Jose, California. The biggest surprise to me is just how blue the sky is almost every day!
+
+There's a lot to explore here. I'm making edits on [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Brandon%20Rozek/) using the Street Complete application on Android along the way.