Jenna Pfeifer
Jenna Pfeifer is a PhD student in Biomechanical Engineering and Cognitive robotics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Her research focuses on the Effects of Technology on Youth Loneliness. Jenna writes to understand the world better by attempting to merge two perspectives: the scientific and the poetic.
Jenna Pfeifer loves words. She sees that student slang is distinct from the language generally spoken at TU Delft. The jargon is neither peer-reviewed nor a marketing tool – it is an innovative code language.
On TU Delft Education Day, Jenna Pfeifer realised how important connection is, that we feel seen and safe, that we can open our minds to new ideas.
Truth and lies are not always opposites, Jenna Pfeifer believes. A white lie is an acceptable social lubricant, positioned between honesty and compassion.
No dataset can ever capture the complexity of what people live. And maybe that’s the point, says Jenna Pfeifer, the mystery is what keeps us asking, looking, listening.
Intuition plays a major role in all scientific progress, writes Jenna Pfeifer, but you cannot rely on it blindly. We must therefore use it wisely.
Could a Large Language Model like GPT-4 ever truly write poetry, Jenna Pfeifer wonders. She is not afraid of the emergence of AI in our creative lives.
Now that spring has arrived, Jenna Pfeifer realises that nothing is permanent. Even you are caught in between who you were and who you’ll become. And that’s where possibilities breathe.
A lasting change in our university culture cannot only rely on victims of social unsafety to speak out. The community should actively condemn wrongdoing, columnist Jenna Pfeifer writes in her first Delta column.
