Meet the COMP2521 Team!

What do you want to do?

Retire

How regular is your sleep schedule?

Thanks to Outlook's scheduled emails feature, extremely regular as far as everyone else knows...

What are your thoughts on persistence and niche data structures?

If at first you don't succeed, try trie again.

What's your favourite board game to date?

Slay the Spire: The Board Game

What's one career you wish you could have?

I love sports so my ultimate career would be professional basketball or tennis player. I'm into endurance training at the moment so doing triathlons professionally would be pretty sweet as well.

If elected as head of CSE, what would be your big change?

All desks would be converted to treadmill workstations (Linus Trovald style), and water bubblers changed to Kombucha taps.

CrossAngles or Notangles?

CrossAngles SLAYYYYYYYY 🔥 also the guy who made it is so cool - he's at Moore College now 🫶🏼

What's a shower thought you've had recently?

The people you'll ever possibly connect most with in your entire life, could never meet you properly if you spoke different languages.

Can you describe your coding style with a food analogy?

Fried rice! I hack things together until it suits my taste. I like to throw some rEGGex into the mix when I can 😊

What's the best sport?

In my opinion the most enjoyable is cycling! Cycling with friends is really relaxing and even better if you can integrate it into your commute. Remember to wear a helmet :)

Got any life advice?

In programming terms:

Go and C the print("Hello World") && for i in 1.. {
    let explore:string = 'Opportunities';
    String make = "Memories";
    const eat = "Yummy Food";
    std::string alwaysHave = "FUN!";
}

What's something you hear far too often?

Segmentation Fault (core dumped)

How did the program die?

It was executed.

If you could have an unlimited supply of one thing, what would it be?

Up&Go Choc Ice!

What are your most used emojis?

💀, 👍, 😔

Where did you go on your most recent holiday?

Darwin

What's your favourite online tool for visualising data structures and algorithms?

https://structs.sh/

What's the weirdest food you have ever eaten?

Horse sashimi - tbh it was really good and I've never had anything else quite like it

What animal do you most look like?

A monkey...

What bone have you broken?

My pinky! I broke it playing basketball once and never played it again 😞

What's something you've learnt since coming to uni?

Ask and ye shall receive!

Why do you look so tired?

I stay up until 2am drawing art far too often

What is the strangest thing you've cooked?

A goldfish. No Questions

Why does your hairline look like that?

Cos I didn't want to take the L, so I took the M

What is your favourite orange vegetable?

Carrots

What is your number one bucket list destination?

The top of my bucket list at the moment would be a scuba diving trip to Raja Ampat.

What is your go-to sorting algorithm?

quantum bogosort

What's your go-to order?

Five whoppers, and five, more whoppers

Who covered you in super glue back in primary school???

I did

What's your go-to dessert spot?

Yochi! (always pile up on the mochi)

Favourite bubble tea order?

Thai milk tea with lychee jelly NO PEARLS, half ice, normal sugar (Don't try bribe me!!!) 🧋

Where is the best place to eat in Sydney?

MALATANG ZHANG LIANG CHINATOWN 💯💯💯

What does the R stand for in Recursion?

Recursion

How many software engineers does it take to change a light bulb?

None, that's a hardware issue

What are your most mispronounced words?

During high school, I frequently mispronounced melodramatic as melodramic... a close second would be finding out that debris was not 'de-bris', but 'de-bree'.

How many types of people are there in the world?

10. Those who understand binary and those who don't…

What's the worst assignment deadline?

9 a.m. in the morning.

What is the passphrase?

Th3 qu1ck br0wn f0x jump5 0ver th3 lazy d0g.

U2FsdGVkX1/xLTOQ7xlcVk1l7Ryc8FbvEan6ymbt/0fOq5c6h3Rt91aQw3BmnhdHqFWpsmQhlwrmtdEuHpHGKRFPnZLRQac2J5bXrHlUwF2vmlEqKWSJ0bDAEUsaL1A5lhwZGr11T6U+RBSeFyu7XlxWJtLlJAANI0YJYy+eHsGkJU4bTHOHbHUoqStHI38tAqkz+XcMHoF8vgjjNcjbPg==

So far, what has been your proudest achievement while studying Computer Science at UNSW?

Sleeping 8hrs (almost) every night 😴

What's your super power?

Extreme-level of indecision on what to eat. No joke, I can turn "what do you want for dinner?" into a 30-minute debate.

How do you do well in Comp2521?

You trie!!! :)