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Burnout…

I decided to drop my PhD and have been working in the tech industry as a DevOps engineer since November 2023.
The PhD stipend, working hours, and cost of living crisis all became too much for me to be able to justify continuing, so despite loving the work I was doing I’ve decided that finding the income to focus on my mental and physical health was more important than a sheet of papaer and rather fancy hat.

I’m going to keep this website up for as long as possible, though I may move it from adreasnow.com at some point to allow me to focus on my tech work instead 🙂
❤️ Adrea

Edit: I’ve now moved this website to adreasnow.com/academic to allow a new hugo based tech website to occupy adreansow.com.

I’m Adrea, a computational chemistry PhD candidate at Monash University. The purpose of this site is mainly to act as a repository of my notes and ramblings, it’s an incoherent collection of random markdown files, cobbled together with MkDocs that I wanted to be easily accessible and searchable.

If you find value in it, that’s always useful, but this is primarily a tool for myself and I don’t expect it to be anything to anyone else, apart from collaborators or people that I want to share specifics with.

Some of the things I’ll be keeping in here are:

  • Research notebooks
  • Cheat sheets for specific applications, tools, processes or techniques
  • Notes based on different resources that I’ve pursued.
  • Some notes from undergrad (please don’t judge me too harshly for those…)
  1. LaTeX in Sublime Text (LaTeXTools) setup guide
  2. ORCA
  3. Psi4
  4. LAMMPS/LigParGen/fftool
  5. PCM - Also check out my presentation on Polarisable Continuum Models