One Month into Stanford Summer Session!
Hello everyone! I'm about a month into Stanford's Summer Session, where I am taking Principles of Data Science with Professor Alexander Dekhtyar and Introduction to Applied Statistics with Professor Madeline Louise Schroth-Glanz. So far, the experience has been incredible not only because of the amazing classes I'm taking but also because of the people I have met. Everyone here is so supportive and hardworking. I've never been among so many driven, intelligent people who, even in high school, have such specialized knowledge in their interests. When I speak to each person here, I can see how much learning means to them, and that pushes me to be an even better version of myself. Of course, the learners I have met here are amazing, but the classes are, too. In Principles of Data Science, we have begun learning machine learning algorithms that we will focus on for the remainder of the quarter. We are doing K-Nearest Neighbors now, but later we will learn about unsuperv...