# 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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most great things in lifeâfrom love to careers to investingâgain their value from two things: patience and scarcity.
â Same as Ever by Morgan Housel
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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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