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Journal #5
Friday, July 18th, 2025

I'm not dead

Hello! I'm back again. I think I wanna keep this website going but im probably gonna turn it into something like a personal twitter page where I can just post random thoughts. Why not just use twitter or threads? Because Im cool, and twitter/threads is lame.

Anyways today I drove up to London to visit my gf (I have a girlfriend now, she's the goat) during work hours because remote work is not real work. I spent some time trying to work on this query system for Med-ImageNet, but its rlly frustrating and complicated so I gave up. After that I started working the earrings I plan to give to my girlfriend for her birthday. This is my first time making jewelry and it's really not too hard at all! It took maybe 20 mins? I guess I should try to make them look absolutely perfect. I have lots of extra gold wire so ill have to attempt a few more times throughout the week.

But yeah, summer's been pretty great. I'm working two jobs, and one of them has offered me some part-time development work that I can do while at school. I'm really hoping it turns into a full-time position because it's right in my niche and it pays quite well. Even though everything around me is going to shit, I feel like I'm in a very good spot in my life.

I often resent the level of privelege I have, since I feel like it will always taint my accomplishments. Would I be where I am now if I didn't have well-connected friends? Would I be where I am now if my parents didnt make like 300k a year? Maybe. But at the end of the day, I am really good at what I do. I'm better at computer science than most other students I know, and I apply those skills to something that ultimately saves lives and I think I deserve the rewards for that. There's a lot of rich kids who don't make anything of themselves. At least I put my advantage to good use.

That's pretty much all I'm gonna say for today. I'm gonna go to my gfs now and have dinner with her family because I have an awesome girlfriend and we do stuff like that.

Peace out,

- Declan