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For studentspractical, verified, reusable

Useful maps for students figuring things out.

Scholarships, applications, internships, CS prep, AI use, fitness basics, and a few puzzles so the practical stuff does not flatten curiosity.

students / applications / proof

Practical student help that turns confusion into a checklist, artifact, or source-checked link.

Keep scholarships, internships, MS applications, quant prep, fitness, and life systems in a clear student route instead of hiding them in curiosity shelves.

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Featured
  1. Student Application Packet Resources / zero / 45 min setup Active
  2. Student Application Operating System Resources / zero / living kit Seed
  3. Scholarship Radar Resources / zero / living index Seed
  4. CS Internship Radar Resources / beginner / living index Seed
  5. MS Application Resource Map Resources / beginner / seasonal guide Seed
money

Scholarships and deadlines

Source-checked opportunities, eligibility, dates, and document lists.

Growth rule

A scholarship entry is a candidate until official source and review date are present.

apply

Applications and career systems

Internships, MS applications, quant prep, cold emails, recommendation packets, and trackers.

Growth rule

Templates belong here when they reduce real student friction.

proof

Projects, AI learning, and quant practice

Zero-to-hero tracks, CS projects, quant practice, and AI use that keeps thinking visible.

Growth rule

Student learning pages should end in visible proof of work.

Build queue
  • Official scholarship source registry - source table / needs-source
  • Application tracker template - tool / next
  • Student AI practice worksheet - learning track / seeded
Roadmap

Do useful things in the right order.

Student help is a roadmap, not a rabbit hole: money, proof, practice, applications, and life systems.

  1. scholarships Find Money Verified links, deadlines, eligibility, and source checks. official source
  2. projects Build Proof One project that says more than a resume adjective. artifact
  3. interviews Practice Core CS, probability, puzzles, and explanation reps. reps log
  4. systems Apply Track applications, referrals, versions, and follow-ups. tracker
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Structure

Student Kit shelves.

What helps a student take the next concrete step?

money

Scholarships and funding

Official-source lists, deadlines, eligibility, and freshness rules.

Source Table 5 objects

Growth rule

Never publish stale scholarship claims as advice; mark source state.

View all / table or row matrix

applications

Applications and packets

MS applications, resumes, SOPs, referrals, and version tracking.

Route-Tabbed Subtopic Hub 5 objects

Growth rule

Prefer checklists and examples over motivational paragraphs.

View all / route tabs plus shelves

internships

Internships, CS proof, and quant prep

Project paths, applications, interview reps, quant practice, and public artifacts.

Route-Tabbed Subtopic Hub 8 objects

Growth rule

Sequence beats card walls: fundamentals, one artifact, applications, interview reps.

View all / route tabs plus shelves

life systems

Common problems and health basics

Practical recipes, fitness field logs, and recurring problems students actually face.

Dense Row Index 9 objects

Growth rule

Personal experience stays labelled personal; health material is not medical advice.

View all / searchable rows

route anchors

Other objects on this route

Compact anchors preserve old links without turning this page into a card wall.

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How this room grows
  1. site Whole site Keep the homepage as orientation and taste. Move depth to rooms and the archive.
  2. area Room / area Create a route when the audience, mental model, or review rules differ from siblings.
  3. subtopic Shelf inside a room Promote to its own page when it needs custom interaction, more than 20 objects, or a recurring newsletter/search path.
  4. collection Curated slice Use rows for many similar objects and cards only for heterogeneous featured objects.
  5. object Canonical content object Every public object keeps a detail URL and machine-readable summary, even if surfaced in many rooms.
  6. block Reusable block Blocks can appear in many posts. They never own taxonomy color or public identity by themselves.
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Tracks

Paths that leave artifacts.

beginner / 6 weeks

LLM Builder: Zero to Shipped Agent

Ship one useful AI assistant with a clear task, test set, retrieval boundary, and failure log.

  1. 01 Prompting as interface design Turn a messy note into a structured student resource.
  2. 02 RAG without superstition Build a scholarship finder over a small verified corpus.
  3. 03 Evals before vibes Evaluate the scholarship finder on 20 realistic questions.
  4. 04 Tools and agents Add a deadline checker and source verifier.
  5. 05 Ship and observe Publish a read-only demo with a failure diary.
intermediate / 8 weeks

LLM From Scratch, No Incense Required

Train a tiny text model, inspect its failures, and connect the toy version to modern LLM systems.

  1. 01 Text to numbers Write a tokenizer visualizer for your own bio.
  2. 02 Embeddings Plot nearest neighbors in a toy corpus.
  3. 03 Attention Animate one attention head on a short sentence.
  4. 04 Training loop Train a tiny quote generator.
  5. 05 Failure diary Publish the model's wrong outputs with explanations.
zero / 12 weeks

Student to Strong CS Intern

Create a credible application packet and one project that shows actual judgment.

  1. 01 Fundamentals map Make a personal CS map with gaps marked.
  2. 02 One real project Make a campus or NGO utility and write the postmortem.
  3. 03 Application system Create a public internship tracker template.
  4. 04 Interview reps Solve and explain 20 core problems.
  5. 05 Proof of work Publish a short project page and learning log.
intermediate / 10 weeks

Quant Research Prep

Build enough math, coding, and research discipline to discuss quant problems honestly.

  1. 01 Probability reflexes Write solutions to 15 probability puzzles.
  2. 02 Statistics and experiments Run a simulation notebook for false discoveries.
  3. 03 Python research loop Build a toy mean-reversion backtest with caveats.
  4. 04 Market humility Write a 'why this probably fails' memo.
  5. 05 Interview synthesis Record short written explanations for solved puzzles.