{"id":397,"date":"2025-05-03T18:28:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T17:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/roberto-vasquez-martinez\/?p=397"},"modified":"2025-08-09T22:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T21:47:11","slug":"my-mres-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/roberto-vasquez-martinez\/2025\/05\/03\/my-mres-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"My MRes Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The journey started on September 27th, 2024, when, after a troubled adventure (Helene Hurricane caused I lost one international flight), I arrived in Lancaster from my homeland, Mexico.<\/p>

The first activity in STOR-i was an amazing trip to the Lake District, where we had several team-building activities (I was expecting more outdoors) and an amazing kayaking trip in Windermere.<\/p>

The next five weeks were intense with four lecture-style modules focus in the core of Statistics and Operational Research.<\/p><\/div>

Afterwards, beginning in November, we had an exciting four weeks of Contemporary Sprints<\/em>. Personally, I enjoyed to learn from several topics in a short period of time. Perhaps, it is the only time I felt really productive… The final task was to deliver a deeper research in one of the these topics, in my case, I wrote a report called\u00a0A Study of Reinforcement Learning in Finance.
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Until this point, I was continuing struggle to adapt to my new life. This amazing opportunity was\u00a0 combined with a critical point in my personal development. More or less, I try to do my best, in order to be happy not only with my academic career, but also with my life in general.\u00a0<\/p>

The new year 2025 was accompanied of several new activities: Industrial Problem Solving Days, final exams, research talks, presentations, a poster session, and so on. In summary, all that constitutes the academic life.<\/p>

In particular, the research talks were our sample to know what are the main research areas in Lancaster; moreover, we should choose two topics for writing non-technical and technical report. This is the writing training in STOR-i. I enjoyed writing these reports, I called the non-technical one: The Dangerous Shadow of Uncertainty<\/em> that I think it is enjoyable to read. On the other hand, my second report, that was more in the scientific article format was called: A Century of Extreme Value<\/em> Theory,\u00a0<\/em>it is basically a journey in the development of extreme value theory, a subject for which Lancaster University is world-renowned.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/div>

Not less important, this year is the first one in which STOR-i offers a proper course for scientific and reproducible programming –coding is a way to relax from the other cluster of activities…<\/p>

The MRes journey ended (unofficially) at the end of May 2025, where the PhD project allocation will be finally done. Therefore, this journey only finish in the beginning of a new adventure: A PhD project, and all the personal ingredients involved.<\/p>

Hence, the most important part of this continuous journey –sometimes really rewarding, other times really tough– it is the personal development.<\/p>

I am very happy of how much I learnt –maths, about myself, from other people– and the invaluable connections I hope to keep for the rest of my life. I recognize this experience as the most meaningful and challenging in my life so far. Then, as the MRes was the end of a beginning, I know this experience is a Before-and-After in my life.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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