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# Recurse Center Day 3: Coffee Chat Extravaganza
- URL: https://recurse.traceyle.me/recurse-center-day-3-coffee-chat-extravaganza/
- Published: 2026-08-12T20:42:35.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-15T16:50:23.000Z
- Description: My pairing strategy at the Recurse Center pays off
- Author: Tracey Le

I ended up missing the Creative Coding session that I was interested in. On the one hand, I absolutely love Creative Coding. On the other hand, I don't like being given prompts – I wanted to work on my own projects

Having heard the enthusiastic endorsements from RC Faculty, I was about to fully embrace pairing on everything. I didn't want to go for a 99% pair rate on programming—I was going to go to 100%!

Realistically then I thought: what if someone more advanced than me doesn't find it intellectually stimulating enough? etc.

I decided to post in the pairing channel with specifics of what I wanted to work on

In the end, I just decided to trust my instinct to what I wanted to spend my time on.