Melissa Q. Wood · /home
Many angles,
one subject: care.
I finished a psychology degree in August and am working toward mental health counseling, with a research focus on matrescence: how identity comes apart and rebuilds when someone becomes a mother. This is a quiet corner of the internet where I keep that work in the open.
American University
On my desk · right now
Three things on my desk
right now.
A short list of what I’m working on this month. Each one has a page with a changelog of recent updates — and when something wraps up, it graduates into a blog or project post.
Building the Guild Assay.
A fan-made psychometric with real machinery under it. Phase one decides what phase two asks.
Read the logApplying to counseling programs.
One focused list, two statement genres, three recommenders. Deadlines before the new year.
Read the logTeaching myself linear algebra.
Working through 3Blue1Brown + Strang. Goal: read computational papers without eye-glaze.
Read the logChance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward. — Amy Tan