I will start my new job soon.
So I took the name that Ben had passed onto me. Someone who knows about temporal natural language processing. I found the website quite easily on the cmu website. It was interesting and quite informative with the work he had done. The publications, the conferences he attended.
But it made me remember how cmu it was like. Bright and intelligent people. The student life. The way we were encapsulated in a place we didn\’t want to be, but collectively, we knew we were there temporarily.
It hurts somewhat to remember.
More because Ben and Andy were what CMU meant to me. The last few months at least. The brillance heading toward paper-writing. The lectures, the talks they would give. And demos. It\’s all work.
At the same time, I don\’t really care. But it\’s not really that I am sad. It\’s more that I didn\’t find the connection I had been looking for. The deeper friendships.