On this page you can find some resources and links that I have used or ran into in the past that you may benefit from;
also on this page you can learn about my friends because I love them.
Math Stuff
- "What is Indigenous Mathematics?" A talk by Dr. Edward Doolittle.
- LaTeX-related:
- Want to learn LaTeX? Start here: Introduction to LaTeX, a worksheet put together by Nic Fellini for AWM.
- Detexify for drawing and recognizing symbols and characters.
- TiKz for commutative diagrams.
- A guide for BibTeX for whenever I need to learn how to do that.
- Things Kunal sent me that I should keep around:
- A funny tweet
- Expander Graphs
- Twelve Angry Mathematicians
- Another funny (and also very true) tweet
- 'kinda helpful for understanding analysis'
- Alfonso's MAT347 Notes on Galois Theory.
- 'Advanced' Math Jokes and Mathematical 'urban legends'
- Hyperbolic Geometry just hit different in the '70s I guess
- Hyperbolic Games and Curved Surfaces on geometrygames.org
- The Catster's Category Theory videos in the right order on YouTube
- Are you an analyst or an algebraist? Find out through your corn eating habits.
- Is this it? Outside In.
- Outside In, improved. Shoutout to Rikin for showing it to me.
LGBT Resources and Cool Websites
- If you're queer, live in Ontario, and want someone to chat with, you can talk to a peer supporter volunteer at the LGBT YouthLine Sunday to Friday 4:00-9:30pm.
- The Transgender Teen Survival Guide, a blog created for people of all ages who have questions concerning their gender identity.
- Life Outside the Binary, a resource centre for nonbinary people and their allies.
- Rainbow Health Ontario, Sherbourne Health Centre; creates opportunities for the healthcare system to better serve LGBT2SQ communities.
- Scarleteen; inclusive, comprehensive, and supportive information on sexuality and relationships for teens.
- Gender Creative Kids; a reference community organization supporting trans, non-binary, and gender-fluid youth’s affirmation within their families, schools, and communities.
- Transition-related surgeries summary sheets, or just an overall trans health guide.
Other Things
- My experience getting the Ontario DZ license.
- Changing Your Display First Name for UofT students: if you don't use your legal given name and hate seeing it on Quercus, Email, and Zoom, you can change your display name here. That page will tell you more information on which UofT services are affected by this Display Name change. The change will take a few days to show up after you've put in the request.
- Tone Indicators help us communicate intentions through text, here is a masterlist of common tone indicators.
- Making your own UofT website: If you're a student at UofT you get free web hosting through UofT! This website used to be hosted at UofT. Here is a nice guide written by Nathan (introduced below), it includes information on both how to get your own page from UofT and how to get started with HTML and management of your page.
- CUPE Information:
- CUPE 3902 Unit 1 homepage
- Unit 1 Collective Agreement with the University of Toronto for 2021-2023.
- Log-in link to access Forms and Events.
Hobbies
- I occasionally play Minesweeper for fun, though I am not necessarily very good; you can watch my best games here.
- Sudoku and variant sudoku.
- In October 2021 I got into bouldering with my partner Nathan (introduced below). You can watch some of my sends here. The main climbing gym I go to (and work at haha) is Rock Oasis in Leslieville of Toronto.
- Also big shout out to the gym I used to go to, Rock On Climbing in the Canary District, which is a dog-friendly 24/7 bouldering gym!
- In the summer of 2024 I played softball in the Beaches Sunday Restaurant League. Here's our stats!
- Also in the summer of 2024 I played beach volleyball in the Ashbridges Bay Beach Volleyball Monday 6v6 Recreational League. We won the playoffs!
- I sing! Click here to hear my sing with my a cappella group Oscat Jazz, and here for a barbershop quartet piece.
Meet My Friends
If you thought I was cool, you clearly haven't met my friends:
- My partner Nathan has a fire website and boulders with me :) check out some clips of him climbing!
- My friend Jiamin is my favourite artist and a wonderful human.
- My friend Anna, another fellow woman in STEM, writes book reviews.
- My sister Lilith researches human-computer interactions like ceiling robots and makes cool stuff like feet warmers (which is unfortunately not for me even though I'm always complaining about my feet being cold).
- My friend Adrian is a geometer and showed me this fascinating and exciting documentary about Queen Hatshepsut.
- My friend Isabel, a beginner salsa dancer like myself, is a math PhD student who studies cool geometry stuff.