Since interview season is coming up for 3rd year folks in college, I'll share a few tips to shine🌟above with your resume + profile and get more interviews -🧵

You better retweet tf out of this for other college kiddos or I'm done putting efforts in my tweets 🔫

- Make. An. Impressive. GitHub. Profile.

No that does not mean having pointless grade lists on your Readme, your projects should be the highlight.

Since you only have a few seconds to grab their attention, don't waste them on meaningless statistics like number of commits or LOC
There's enough content out there to tell you why you should be active on GitHub but the base reason is it shows you CAN code and demonstrates that you can work with others.

Plus showing that you know VCS is a good basic skill to flex on recruiters.
- Have a couple of big projects

You might be tempted (or desperate) to put your college projects but they generally lack the complexity or the crucial components that make a project interesting.

Your aim should be to put together a bunch of technologies that work in harmony
and at the same time show your interpersonal skills like, did you build it with a team of random internet strangers? How did you collaborate without friction and all that jazz.

So two things, complexity and how much did you learn other than tech. If it's creative, bonus points
Also, 2-3 interesting projects of varied complexities is much better than 5 TicTacToe level projects, as it is achievable for anyone dabbling in code for a while

Remember to ask yourself this, why should they care, is it worth reading about and if not, what do my projects lack?
- Have your own website and other work related links attached in your resume

Building a website is a cool creative project on its own but you can spit shine a template if you're in the "I'm beyond saving and need to pull up my game ASAP" period. This can act as a central
hub to all your profiles (blog, twitter, linkedin etc.) and you could use that attention to better talk about your skills or passion that couldn't fit in the single page resume.
- Proofread your resume

Proofread it 5 times, show it to your mom, sibling, friends, DM folks on Discord, just get criticism.

I had been using the same resume for like 3 months until I shared it with someone and they pointed out I spelt REST as Rest. It can always be improved.
Thats pretty much all the bare necessities you should have before you go out there hunting. Obviously there's more tips but I don't really like doing threads and will probably regret this later (I would be encouraged if this does well).

Good luck for your interviews, you got it!

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Brief thread to debunk the repeated claims we hear about transmission not happening 'within school walls', infection in school children being 'a reflection of infection from the community', and 'primary school children less likely to get infected and contribute to transmission'.

I've heard a lot of scientists claim these three - including most recently the chief advisor to the CDC, where the claim that most transmission doesn't happen within the walls of schools. There is strong evidence to rebut this claim. Let's look at


Let's look at the trends of infection in different age groups in England first- as reported by the ONS. Being a random survey of infection in the community, this doesn't suffer from the biases of symptom-based testing, particularly important in children who are often asymptomatic

A few things to note:
1. The infection rates among primary & secondary school children closely follow school openings, closures & levels of attendance. E.g. We see a dip in infections following Oct half-term, followed by a rise after school reopening.


We see steep drops in both primary & secondary school groups after end of term (18th December), but these drops plateau out in primary school children, where attendance has been >20% after re-opening in January (by contrast with 2ndary schools where this is ~5%).

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