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Let me summerize these past many months:</p>
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<li>I finished my coursework for my prep phase</li>
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<li>I was added to a colleagues project and we submited it to IMC</li>
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<li>I submitted a poster to TMA, and I will be present it at the end of this month (June)</li>
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<li>I branched my main project, IP over anything, into application layer, added steganography to it, and made it ready to be submited to S&amp;P, but due to some complications, we decided to skip this deadline and aim for USENIX at the end of Augsust.</li>
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<li>I am a tutor at data networks, and I think I&rsquo;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.</li>
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</p></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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.
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<li>I finished my coursework for my prep phase</li>
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<li>I was added to a colleagues project and we submited it to IMC</li>
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<li>I submitted a poster to TMA, and I will be present it at the end of this month (June)</li>
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<li>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.</li>
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<li>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.</li>
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]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>April '26</title><link>https://blog.alipour.eu/phd_journey/april_2026/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 03:26:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.alipour.eu/phd_journey/april_2026/</guid><description><p>I know, I know. I&rsquo;ve been lacking updates. I&rsquo;m so so sorry. I will try to summerize what I&rsquo;ve been up tp in the past few months.</p>
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<p>Up until the middle of March, I&rsquo;ve been taking care of the last bits of coursework I had to do during my prep phase. And now I&rsquo;m done with that all together.</p>
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<p>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&rsquo;t know much about. Though no mail server for me unfortunately.</p></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>I was then approached by a colleague who’s research needed a bit of push to get to the IMC deadline, and we pushed “HARD”. We submitted the paper with so much chaos I would say. But we did it.</p>
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<p>Now I wonder, both my research projects that I’ve been working on feel like there are more advanced than what we submitted, then we am I not drafting papers for them?! I will talk to my advisor about this. :)</p>
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<p>I also kinda started a new project, or at least we have floated the idea of, which sounds exciting. I would be working with one of my favorite group members. A true nerd! :)</p>
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<p>I will try to be more consistant throughout May by providing updates. Please cross your fingers for me! :D</p>
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]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>November '25</title><link>https://blog.alipour.eu/phd_journey/november_2025/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 07:53:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.alipour.eu/phd_journey/november_2025/</guid><description><h1 id="4th">4th</h1>
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<p>Again, let&rsquo;s setup some goals for the month.</p>
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<li>Keeping up with my coursework</li>
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<li>Working on my codebase</li>
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<li>Getting healthier diet and excercise-wise</li>
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<h1 id="30th">30th</h1>
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<p>I did a bit of literature review, it&rsquo;s still lacking unfortunately.</p>
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<p>Coursework is ok-ish. I&rsquo;ve been trying to work on assignements and understand them.</p>
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<p>I rewrote the whole codebase, now we have a modularized design that should be easier to add to.</p>
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<p>I&rsquo;ve been eating more and more healthy, excercise is still lacking. I&rsquo;ll get to that later.</p></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1 id="4th">4th</h1>
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<p>Again, let’s setup some goals for the month.</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Literature review</li>
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<li>Keeping up with my coursework</li>
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<li>Working on my codebase</li>
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<li>Getting healthier diet and excercise-wise</li>
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<h1 id="30th">30th</h1>
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<p>I did a bit of literature review, it’s still lacking unfortunately.</p>
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<p>Coursework is ok-ish. I’ve been trying to work on assignements and understand them.</p>
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<p>I rewrote the whole codebase, now we have a modularized design that should be easier to add to.</p>
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<p>I’ve been eating more and more healthy, excercise is still lacking. I’ll get to that later.</p>
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]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>October '25</title><link>https://blog.alipour.eu/phd_journey/october_2025/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 08:40:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.alipour.eu/phd_journey/october_2025/</guid><description><h1 id="1st">1st</h1>
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<p>Ok, let&rsquo;s start the month by declareing some goals and agendas.</p>
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<p>What do I want to do this month?</p>
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<li>Finish previous semester.</li>
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<li>Pick the last of the course work for my prep phase.</li>
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<li>Finalize the CoNEXT student workshop paper.</li>
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<li>Finish my second RIL.</li>
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<li>Start my 3rd and last RIL.</li>
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<li>Learn more Go to become more comfortable with it, but how do I set this as a measureable goal?</li>
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<li>More literature review, persumabely all of FOCI related papers this month.</li>
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<li>Work on my codebase:
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<li>Do code cleaning</li>
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<li>Add comments for code</li>
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<li>Start working on ICMP stuff</li>
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<li>More socializing! :-)</li>
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<li>A fun pet project? Maybe with Go? Maybe with 3d printer? Idk.</li>
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<li>Enhance your routines and add exercise to it please!</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Alright. Now that the goals are set, let&rsquo;s start the month strong!
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My last exam for pervious semester will be on October 7th.
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I have done 74 ECTS, another 6 will be my last RIL.
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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.
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I then just need to do my QE for which I should submit my first paper for which I&rsquo;m doing work!</p></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1 id="1st">1st</h1>
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<p>Ok, let’s start the month by declareing some goals and agendas.</p>
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<p>What do I want to do this month?</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Finish previous semester.</li>
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<li>Pick the last of the course work for my prep phase.</li>
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<li>Finalize the CoNEXT student workshop paper.</li>
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<li>Finish my second RIL.</li>
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<li>Start my 3rd and last RIL.</li>
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<li>Learn more Go to become more comfortable with it, but how do I set this as a measureable goal?</li>
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<li>More literature review, persumabely all of FOCI related papers this month.</li>
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<li>Work on my codebase:
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<ol>
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<li>Do code cleaning</li>
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<li>Add comments for code</li>
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<li>Start working on ICMP stuff</li>
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</ol>
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</li>
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<li>More socializing! :-)</li>
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<li>A fun pet project? Maybe with Go? Maybe with 3d printer? Idk.</li>
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<li>Enhance your routines and add exercise to it please!</li>
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<p>Alright. Now that the goals are set, let’s start the month strong!
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My last exam for pervious semester will be on October 7th.
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I have done 74 ECTS, another 6 will be my last RIL.
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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.
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I then just need to do my QE for which I should submit my first paper for which I’m doing work!</p>
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<p>I have started to take SSRIs again.
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I used to take them before I came to Germany to start my PhD, but after coming here things were going really well for many months, and I wanted to cut the medication.
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I was taking more than just SSRIs actually, and my psychiatrist agreed to cut all other three medications but advised me to keep taking my SSRI.
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After being all happy and things working very well, we started to cut the last piece of the puzzle.
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We agreed to reduce the dosage by 0.25% of the max and wait for one month.
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Things were going really well for the first two and a half month, and then it happened.
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The catastrophe that put me in my worst mental and physicall position happened to me.
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It’s not something I want to talk about in my blog, well at least for now, but I’ve tried to talk about it with my closest friends.
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It’s so sad that things happened the way they did.
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I never really fully recovered.
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But… time has passed.
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Almost 8 months now.
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I should not have continued to cut my medication, but I did.
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I damaged myself badly by being stubborn.
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My brother who knew everything insisted that I should continue the usage, but I didn’t listen.
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My parents didn’t know anything, but could see thier happy son turning into the saddest, most depressed thing of all time.
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I was scared of my own shadow for more than one month.
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I eventually started to go out, but seeing some certain people made me uncomfortable.
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This is another thing I haven’t been able to figure out.
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In the end, I just endured pain, a lot of pain.
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I’m glad I didn’t break, but I do think most people would’ve.
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To deal with this pain, I decided to take many courses.
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Cure pain with more pain.
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What a fool I was.
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I just tore myself up mentally and added much more unneeded stress.</p>
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<p>Did I mention I didn’t show up in office for 6 weeks?
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And that when I came back I was hit again with things I didn’t understand?
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Sometimes in life shit happens, but this was a whole new level.
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<h1 id="3rd">3rd</h1>
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<p>Today is the German unity day, and we have a long weekend ahead!
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Other than that, last night was one of the most fantabolous days of my life.
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I’m feeling more content and secure.
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I’m feeling true happiness.
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I’m just like I used to be 9 months ago.
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Just as jolly, positive, and feeling like I’m on top of the world.
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Thinking about it a bit more, I do think I’m being a bit less passionate about my work.
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What could be the reason? Different priorities? Nah. I really love my research and care about it.
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I think it’s just that there is no pressure on me, and no deadline.
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I will try to set small deadlines for myself and force myself to be more productive.
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Oh, and the SSRI adverse effects are visible! Yeah… But it’s going to be alright, I’m sure of it.
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I have an exam I need to prepare for on 7th, but I’ve been procrastinating. I should plan my days and stick to it. Hell yes.</p>
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<h1 id="5th">5th</h1>
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<p>My student workshop paper to CoNEXT ‘25 was rejected.
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It got one weak accept and one weak reject, with both reviewers claiming to have somewhat familiarity with the topic.</p>
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<p>First review (wa) provided two suggestions for improving the work.
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However, as this was a workshop paper, the goal was to talk about the research in the presentation and afterwards fine-tune details.</p>
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<p>Second review (wr) asked for more details.
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In the end they suggested only focusing on one approach and it’s evaluation.
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This kinda defeated the purpose of what I was trying to do, to provide “tools”.</p>
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<p>Another thing they mentioned was how ML-based traffic analysis can be used to detect evasion.
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This is indeed something I like to work on and look at in the near future.</p>
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<h1 id="7th">7th</h1>
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<p>Stressful day.
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I had my last exam, the exam for Interactive systems that I did not attend the main exam for.
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I tried to study over the weekend, but some weird things happened throughout the weekend, making my very distracted mind even more distracted.
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I don’t know how I did, but I’m glad I did the exam.
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Hopefully I did alright, although I kinda do know some of the mistakes I’ve made, which is a really bad sign…
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I hope I won’t have to take another extra course in the next semesters, that would just be annoying.
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I really do hope so.</p>
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<h1 id="8th">8th</h1>
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<p>I’m back at work, still very distracted with life.
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I do need to do literature review, expand my framework, and focus on my work.
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It’s a Wednesday unfortunately, meaning I have my German class until 9:30, which today it lasted until 9:45, and then we have cookies at 14:00.
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I hope I can get myself together and start being productive again.</p>
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<h1 id="9th">9th</h1>
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<p>I will be doing literature review today.
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Yesteday I didn’t manage to get myself together. Drat.
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There will be a nice social event later today too.
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I can rest and socialize with my group’s amazing people!
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It’ll be fun! :)</p>
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<p>Another fun thing is that I will get my very own physical GFW box today.
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It’s probably the most majestic thing that could’ve happened?
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The reason for it is that a month ago there was a leak for GFW.
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Lucky us I guess.</p>
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<h1 id="13th">13th</h1>
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<p>Last week was again not a productive week.
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I will start to plan my days from now on.
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The important things are literature review, working on the code base, and looking at the box a bit.
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Unfortunately the new semester also starts from today.
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I’ll be having one, at most two courses.</p>
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<h1 id="17th">17th</h1>
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<p>Another unproductive week.
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I think this was the worst one actually.
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I can’t focus on reading the papers, I get distracted easily or lose interest.
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Tobias suggested USENIX’s 3-slide slide deck to enhance my focus, I’ll give it a try.</p>
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<p>I also need to address the elephant in the room, and start working on the codebase.</p>
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<p>I also need to look at the GFW files more, and try to find useful stuff there.</p>
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<p>But first I need to work on HTDN’s papers, and craft the slides. That is the highest priority on my list. I’ll do it.</p>
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<h1 id="31st">31st</h1>
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<p>It went by.
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It went by quickly.
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I wasn’t able to pick myself up this month, but I won’t let it happen in the following.
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I want to be truthful, so I won’t hide anything.
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the only thing is I should’ve let myself grief a bit, and I did. I’m proud of it. It’s fine.
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For next month, I will start strong, try to get myself together, and pick myself up. I will make progress.
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I promise.</p>
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<p>Also I think there is no point in me ranting everyday or every once in a while in my PhD journey posts? Maybe it’s not a bad thing. The problem is I don’t have much to present, and that’s why this is the content. Idk if I change the structure or not, but for now it is what it is.</p>
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<p>Ok, let’s set some goals for next month in advance, then we can see how good we did.</p>
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<li>I want to work on ICMP stuff and make it work nicely.</li>
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<li>I want to do more literature review, maybe read all 2025 and 2024 censorship papers. Cross your fingers for this.</li>
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<li>I need to keep up with my courses, including the German class.</li>
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<li>I might work more on the GFW leaked data, but I think it’s not a priority for me for now. So… scrap this last one.</li>
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]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>September '25</title><link>https://blog.alipour.eu/phd_journey/september_2025/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 09:48:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.alipour.eu/phd_journey/september_2025/</guid><description><p>I started the month by finalizing my draft for Conext Student workshop.
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Notification should arrive on 25th, and I&rsquo;d have until 30th to do the camera ready stuff which should be plenty of time.</p>
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<p>I did a vacation from 6th until 15th for a total of 10 days by taking 6 days off.
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Notification should arrive on 25th, and I’d have until 30th to do the camera ready stuff which should be plenty of time.</p>
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<p>I did a vacation from 6th until 15th for a total of 10 days by taking 6 days off.
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We had so much fun!
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What a delightful trip it was.
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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.
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Now that my brother also has his greencard, we can travel together and see eachother more often too!</p>
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<p>Surprise surprize, the notification did not come and it’s the last day of the month.
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Ever since I came back from vacation I tried to catch up with everything, did my ML re-exam, and setup all different cool things I talked about in my blog.
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I’ve been waiting for the notification to get started with the camera-ready process to make sure I have enough time to study for my next and last exam on 7th of October…
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<p>I will probably do more literature review this last day of the month, and start working on the code base from next month.
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I should do a lot more literature review to be caught up with whatever that’s been done so far.</p>
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<p>My social life has been much more exciting too.
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Some other exciting things have also been hapening that I don’t have the courage to write about now. ;)
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Buuuuuut… I will probably write about them at some point if things go the way I hope theuy would.
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Just remember Wed 24th of September 2025 and Sunday 28th of same month and year. :)</p>
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<p>And with that, that’s my September in a nutshell.
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I cross my fingers for the month ahead!</p>
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<p>My social life has been becoming better too.
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I’ve been trying to attend more ZiS events to meet people, make new connections, and to have fun!
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My depression is a serious issue.
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I also have anxiety disorder that I’m talking with my therapist about.
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I will most likely start taking SSRIs once again.
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Idiot me was cutting it when the catasrophe in February happened and did not think twice to keep taking them.
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I’m really glad I was able to recover, though it was not easy at all, it did work out.</p>
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