Hello, world!

This is me, Tess. In my picture, I'm blowing out 19 candles on a Ben and Jerry's ice cream cake in my dorm at Brown University. I find this picture to be pretty emblematic of my life.

You see, I am an amateur flavorist and self-proclaimed nerd. I thrive on theory courses, spout puns that make even the CS boys cringe, and design new and beautiful ice cream flavors in my free time. My favorite quote of all time was made by my cryptography professor, the enigmatic Anna Lysyanskaya: "This reduction comes in two flavors."

This blog is the place where I will record my flavorful adventures, jot my observations of the CS world through female eyes, and hopefully re-establish the connection between ice cream and computer science.