Updates on Davis Cole

Summer

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 13:14:17 -0400

This summer marks the first time I really feel on my own.

I start my graduate program at WPI in the fall, however I secured an apartment lease in Worcester that started June 1st. Truly living on my own has reminded me of the minutia that most people must consider.

Remembering to lock my doors and bring my keys; learning city trash policies; starting the Massachussetts residency process; taking it easy after hurting my back; it’s a level of individual responsibility that I haven’t taken on since my semester in Iceland. Even then, I was fresh out of undergrad, feeling like a college kid, and still living on my parents’ dime.

WPI Graduate Admission

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 08:56:42 -0500

This morning I was warmly greeted by an email confirming my fully-funded admission to WPI’s graduate mechanical engineering program.

This opportunity first presented itself to me in late October while browsing CFD Online’s job board. I was a frequent lurker of the forums during my internship at DEKA R&D, when I was most in the weeds with OpenFOAM. Several years later I only find myself checking it periodically, but it was just my luck that a funded CFD research position had opened up on the east coast.

Post Austin Blues

Sun, 19 Jan 2025 19:39:08 -0500

Man, am I bad at making these updates. Ideally I would have written or typed something up immediately after 6 days in Austin, but that’s how bad my discipline can be.

I suppose I’ll just go order of events:

Day before the flight Matt and I register for a Founders Running Club 5k at 8:00 am on Luma
We proceed to get 2 hours of sleep in Austin and debate not going
Spirits were raised the moment we arrive
5k is run and the club chops it up at Afuga
We proceed to set up TopGolf, hiking, climbing, and pickleball with new friends within an hour, all the while discusssing startups, real estate, the market, technology, healthcare, sheeeeesh
Just about everyone we met and every activity we did was very fun, had hardly any unhappy moments

I have been neglecting myself these past 2 years. I have been shielding myself from living in the real world.

Epoch

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 00:13:04 -0600

Today bowrango was able to explain his project to a relative layman, which I consider to be a milestone achievement.

I wish the Northeast had 24/7 cafes; there isn’t a chill place to discuss ideas with low judgement.

I intend to explain my idea to Moiz in the coming days.

Austin Trip

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 14:35:58 -0500

Riding the Boston Express as I type this. I don’t intend for this to be intelligible necessarily, just trying to word-vomit what’s on my mind.

It’s about time I decided to do something for leisure. I imagined myself as someone who’d have the self-awareness to attend to my personal needs beyond professional development.

While I’m there, I would like to reconsider my relationship to the northeast US. When I stop and think, I feel tied to this area. The world started feeling crazy due to covid, and I sought out stability. I wouldn’t say my time at DEKA and in Manchester wasn’t a problem, but starting at Ansys was the beginning of the end for me. Despite not being a great fit at DEKA, I felt like part of a team with shared responsibility and buy-in from test technicians to project managers. This was not the case at Ansys.

Things I Found Interesting 1

Sun, 29 Dec 2024 10:40:28 -0500

As implied by the terminating digit on this post, I would like to make this a thing, posting things that I remember as interesting and have the energy to post here.

Lifestyle / Vibes

Joe Scott

One of the topics I routinely talk about with the people close to me is society’s lack of agency or drive to learn new things to better their careers and lives.

I am someone who likes to work on these sort of things, actively improving my existing skills or learning new ones. I make attempts to invite other people into my world of learning new things, but this is rarely something people want to get into.

2024 12 23

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:07:40 -0500

I’ve had a really tough past couple of days. Thankfully things have gotten better today with the gym and some gentle tinkering.

2024 07 05

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 13:38:51 -0400

This update is being used to test a video shortcode:

Thanks to this link