Melissa Q. Wood · /home
At the thresholds of identity.
I’m finishing a psychology degree and 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 small, honest 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 this website.
A hand-built corner of the internet. No CMS, no tracking, no metrics dashboards.
Read the logSEO research for the BRCA resource.
Figuring out what people actually type into Google at 1am after a family-history conversation.
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