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+## The last day of SQuInT and Qubits
+
+## Today was the last day of SQuInT
+- It was nothing short of amazing! There are so many things I can talk about, including how great
+the community was, how much fun I had, and how humbled I felt being here; it was just really wonderful.
+- For our final keynote, we had Ben speak, who told us about the Prehistory of the Qubit.
+- His talk was so passionate, so fun, and so inspiring, that at the end, he got a standing ovation. It was
+just incredible, and even better, his talk was on quantum information theory and contained cryptography
+and he even mentioned Leibniz (who I did an art installation on in undergrad!) and Monads! (haha!)
+- It was electrifying. Also, his number plate totally reads Qubits, which is hilarious. I love that
+he spoke about asking the right questions! I've been feeling so much that there is less and less room
+for this in so many spaces, like in Academia, where people would prefer that you churn out a bunch of
+papers using tweets or whatever and get loads of citations, or in industry, where the goal is to do things
+that relate directly to products that the company could patent. It was so refreshing to hear that message
+again of asking the right questions, and I wished that more of the people who have "made it" in research
+and speak openly today about their path would emphasize this, rather than the whole "publish or perish"
+message.
+- What's even more amazing is that his talk related directly to a project I'm working on, too, which just made
+me SO happy!
+- It made me feel so much more worthy to exist in academia, taking my time and thinking deeply about things
+that are interesting to me, rather than chasing the things everyone says I should be, because there is
+money and clout in those areas. My heart is with this community.
+- Everything about this community shares my values, and people were just so friendly, and I just had a wonderful
+time!
+
+## Afterwards
+- I hung out with a friend and we caught dinner. I met him only last week, during a recruitment event,
+if you can believe it, via Zoom! He's from Ghana, but lives out here, and we had dinner at this
+restaurant that is pretty popular with the students in the area, called Frontier. Then we drove around
+on Central Avenue and saw some Halloween costumes, and it was just a great day.
+
+## Here are some photos from the talk
+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint1.png" width="300">
+
+- Okay, so this is actually a vehicle we saw that had caution tape and fake blood and clowns in the backseat, which was
+hilarious.
+
+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint2.png" width="300">
+
+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint3.png" width="300">
+
+- We went to Frontier and got food before heading back. I got to see the campus and got a tour of Central Avenue.
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+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint4.png" width="300">
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+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint5.png" width="300">
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+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint6.png" width="300">
+
+- Ben beginning his talk, "A Brief Prehistory fo Qubits".
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+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint7.png" width="300">
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+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint8.png" width="300">
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+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint9.png" width="300">
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+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint10.png" width="300">
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+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint11.png" width="300">
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+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint12.png" width="300">
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+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint13.png" width="300">
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+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint14.png" width="300">
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+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint15.png" width="300">
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+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint16.png" width="300">
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+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint17.png" width="300">
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+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint18.png" width="300">
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+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint19.png" width="300">
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+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint20.png" width="300">
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+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint21.png" width="300">
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+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint22.png" width="300">
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+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint23.png" width="300">
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+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint24.png" width="300">
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+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint25.png" width="300">
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+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint26.png" width="300">
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+<img src="/images1/squint232/squint27.png" width="300">
+
+
+## Coming back
+- Once I get back, I definitely am getting back to working on my projects, get caught up on my abelian varieties work,
+and do a 1:1 with my Lean professor, since he decided we could meet and continue get coaching on that.
+- I have a notebook filled with ideas, and many happy memories with this group.
+- It's a pity I can't take any tacos back with me, though!
+
+## And that's it
+
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+