Friday, March 24, 2017

My First Google Chrome Extension! And Asynchronous Functions in Javascript

A while ago I published my first Google chrome extension, which you can find here. Basically the extension is an assignment tracker that turns your new tab page into a notepad. It also allows you to highlight text in the browser and right-click to add it to the assignment tracker clipboard. Although the new tab notepad idea has already been implemented before, I wanted a notepad that would allow me to add text I see in my browser to the notepad...

Friday, March 17, 2017

The End of Midterms and UROPing

This week was a stressful week because I had two midterms that each counted for around 16% of my grade. Although my classes this semester are definitely more interesting, I miss PNR and not having to care about my grades. I read online that it is relatively easier to get Bs at MIT, but much harder to get As. Because I want to qualify for MEng, I will need to get at least one-third As. Outside of my classes, I spent around 6 hours working on a...