Jonathan’s Newsletter

Home
Archive
About
There’s so much pressure for undergrad computer science students to land an internship. So there’s a lot of advice on how to get them. Optimize your resume. Get referrals. Send out applications, play the numbers game, prepare for the coding interview, LeetCode, etc, etc, etc.
Jonathan Cai
NewTop
Goals define us. An NBA player wants to win basketball games. A chef aims to make good food. A cop tries to catch bad guys. A dirty cop might not. Your…
Jonathan Cai
For those who haven’t read Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, it’s about a father and a son who travel across the US on a…
Jonathan Cai
Last year I took a course at Rice called Ethics and Accountability in Computer Science. As you might guess, it was a discussion-based class covering the…
Jonathan Cai
I was inspired by this Reddit post about visualizing the internship search. So as I graduate next semester, I thought it would be cool to look back on…
Jonathan Cai
(As opposed to several of my other projects which have taken several months/years with nothing to show for it.) The Problem During college internship…
Jonathan Cai
No such thing as a life that's better than yours No such thing as a life that's better than yours (Love yours) No such thing as a life that's better…
Jonathan Cai
In L.F. Baum’s Wizard of Oz, the Wizard fools everyone by creating a vision of himself to look powerful. He does this by using a set of controls while…
Jonathan Cai
See all

Jonathan’s Newsletter

AboutArchiveAuthors
© 2022 Jonathan Cai
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Publish on Substack Get the app
Substack is the home for great writing