# PhD_journeys

## June 2026

Ok, it’s been so so so long! I haven’t been writing, once again, because I’ve been too busy with fixing my life. Let me summerize these past many months: I finished my coursework for my prep phase I was added to a colleagues project and we submited it to IMC I submitted a poster to TMA, and I will be present it at the end of this month (June) I branched my main project, IP over anything, into application layer, added steganography to it, and made it ready to be submited to S&P, but due to some complications, we decided to skip this deadline and aim for USENIX at the end of Augsust. I am a tutor at data networks, and I think I’m doing a pretty good job :) at least I hope so! I realized how much I love teaching, and interacting and explaining things to students. Downloads: Markdown · Signature (.asc) ...

## April '26

I know, I know. I’ve been lacking updates. I’m so so sorry. I will try to summerize what I’ve been up tp in the past few months. Up until the middle of March, I’ve been taking care of the last bits of coursework I had to do during my prep phase. And now I’m done with that all together. I took ML in cysec which was very much aligned to the type of research I do. They try to get around IDS, and I try to get around censorship setup which is pretty much the same idea. I learned so so incredibly much from the course. It was awesome! I then had a block seminar called Routerlab in which I just did very well. It was fun in the sense that we got to touch and use real hardware. We also did so much that I didn’t know much about. Though no mail server for me unfortunately. ...

## November '25

4th Again, let’s setup some goals for the month. Literature review Keeping up with my coursework Working on my codebase Getting healthier diet and excercise-wise 30th I did a bit of literature review, it’s still lacking unfortunately. Coursework is ok-ish. I’ve been trying to work on assignements and understand them. I rewrote the whole codebase, now we have a modularized design that should be easier to add to. I’ve been eating more and more healthy, excercise is still lacking. I’ll get to that later. ...

## October '25

1st Ok, let’s start the month by declareing some goals and agendas. What do I want to do this month? Finish previous semester. Pick the last of the course work for my prep phase. Finalize the CoNEXT student workshop paper. Finish my second RIL. Start my 3rd and last RIL. Learn more Go to become more comfortable with it, but how do I set this as a measureable goal? More literature review, persumabely all of FOCI related papers this month. Work on my codebase: Do code cleaning Add comments for code Start working on ICMP stuff More socializing! :-) A fun pet project? Maybe with Go? Maybe with 3d printer? Idk. Enhance your routines and add exercise to it please! Alright. Now that the goals are set, let’s start the month strong! My last exam for pervious semester will be on October 7th. I have done 74 ECTS, another 6 will be my last RIL. If they give me Router Lab, 4 of it would count as ungraded along with an advance course such as either NN, ML sec or EML I would be done with the requirements for my prep phase. I then just need to do my QE for which I should submit my first paper for which I’m doing work! ...

## September '25

I started the month by finalizing my draft for Conext Student workshop. Let’s cross our fingers and hope things work out and that it gets accepted. Notification should arrive on 25th, and I’d have until 30th to do the camera ready stuff which should be plenty of time. I did a vacation from 6th until 15th for a total of 10 days by taking 6 days off. I visited my parents after 13 months(!), and also my brother after more than two years. We had so much fun! I did a bunch of sight-seeing in Istanbul, tried out yummy foods and sweets, many different fishes, and snorkled in Antalya. What a delightful trip it was. I do have to get used to this as this is the sole way I will most probably see my parents from now on, unless they want to travel to somewhere else or visit me here. Now that my brother also has his greencard, we can travel together and see eachother more often too! ...

## Augest '25

This month started with me setting up a deadline for Conext student workshop. I wanted to submit something not only to get the chance to attend a nice conference, but to create a network, meet researchers, and to get a chance to present my work and get feedback on it. I also worked on my code-base, finally making everything work by replacing Jool with clatd for performing CxLAT. This darn thing wasted so much of my time! I did learn a bit along the way, but oh well. Such is life! ...

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