RC Day 01 - Onboarding

Today was day 1 at Recurse Center. I intend to learn generously and write about programming things while I’m here, but this is not that. This is just a little “captain’s log” of my days here to build the writing habit. It’ll be brief.

• Onboarding: meeting the faculty and other Recursers, seeing demonstrations of the social rules in action, hearing more about the self-directives, and being made to feel extremely welcome here.
• Some free time before a tour of RC’s software, which I took to reflect on what I want to do here. That meant making a big list of projects and areas I’m interested in exploring, and trying to tease out what I’m intrinsically motivated to do.
• Execute Program: Asynchronous JavaScript exercises.
• An hour break for dinner and family.
• A tour of RC’s software. Virtual RC is super cool, and it definitely lends something to the experience. I feel like I’m with others even when I’m not on a call.
• My first ever leetcode problems. I managed two without looking at solutions, and one with some peeking (it was correct but too slow). I’m new to this kind of algorithmic puzzling.
• Quick update to this site to add the /log route and this post.
• Now bed.

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