# Thomas Forbes
Taking a gap semester from Georgetown to deal with health issues and work on personal projects.
Previously, I dropped out of my final year of high school to work at bestever.ai in sf.
My favorite feeling is finishing a long day of work and having something I can point to and say "I made that".
My second favorite feeling is to jump out of plane đȘ.
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Personal change needs some space to happen. To bring something new into your life, you need somewhere to put it. If your current habits are filling your day, where are these new habits supposed to go?
â Hell Yeah or No by Derek Sivers
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## Previously
Student at Georgetown University
2024/08 -> 2025/05 in DC
Software Engineer at Bestever
2023/06 -> 2024/08 in SF
Full-stack engineer. Finished my high school coursework in my freetime.
Summer 2022 in Dublin
- Ireland's leading young builder accelerator.
- Built an Anki like study tool with automated flashcard generation using gpt-3 (yes I'm an unc)
Bronze medalist in 2023, 2022 and top 15 in 2021 and 2020
- IGEES award winner and Gold medalist 2023 (paper). Gold medalist 2022 (paper)
- Invited to meet with Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe
Don't forget to sleep well tonight
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