Jeff

IR week is over

So I’ve finished IR week, it was quite a doozy. I spent three days preparing, attending, researching, and otherwise getting denied by companies to be hired. I just am not the greatest paper candidate for a job. I don’t have any intern experience, I don’t have a stellar GPA, but I think if I can ever get to an interview, I am a good candidate. Then Thursday and Friday I spent catching back up with homework that I neglected for the three days during IR. Then this weekend I got drunk on Saturday at breakfast club, slept through the tailgate and game, and then slacked off all day today. So it means I have a tough week ahead of me, but less interview denials. I hopefully will get it all done, with plenty of time of course (e_e). I have a lot on my plate, I should have worked today to get some of it done, but I just wanted to enjoy some of my week. Tomorrow will be devoted to my project, then I need to push in the lab exercise by Wednesday and then finish up the 437 lab by Friday morning. sigh I have been doing this for four years now, it doesn’t even scare me this time… God I’m getting old. I may even finish off the sorting menu for image galleries by the weekend, I have the fancy animated javascript almost done, its all done by hand too, fancy me!

First Day

And the first day is over. Only the rest of my final year of school. sigh I was late for my first class too, like half an hour late. I didn’t get to sleep until 5, so I didn’t get much sleep. The class was ECE 462, its for object-oriented programming. It looks pretty fun, the projects are Breakout in Java and C++, Tetris in Java, Pac-Man in C++, and then some game using networking in either C++ or Java. I think I’ll enjoy it. The other class I had today was ECE 437, its called Computer Architecture and Prototyping, gosh, just saying that to people makes me feel smart. Basically all we will do in it is design a multi-core processor. It should be tough, but very beneficial. I have my two Psych classes tomorrow, the first is with Cray and Gerg.

My birthday is on Wednesday, I will be an old 22. gah. I should be implementing more to this site in the coming weeks. I hope to put the movies in and redevelop my RSS feed. Then probably clean up the gallery sorting and probably figure out something to do with the footer, if you have any ideas, please please leave a comment. I could also possibly try to make a Dtella facebook app. It would be interesting at the least.

Back at the due

This will be long, so get a cold drink and get ready to relax.

I got back from my trip to Japan on Tuesday (two Tuesdays ago) the 11th. It was a long flight and it didn’t help that Kim’s mother basically gave me the cold shoulder for the entire trip. It was nice to get home and see my family. They were all there to meet me at the airport. I went back and promptly got changed to go with my dad to a dedication party at the new Colt’s Stadium. It is really impressive. Large, spacious, and it looks very nice. I forgot my ID though, so I was getting the free beer from family friends who offered their services, it was weird getting alcohol through third parties when I am legal. shrug

I worked for a few days after getting back, but stopped early because the hours were being cut and I didn’t want to take hours just for extra money from people who live off of the pay. Finishing up was odd though, it may be the last time I work at Target, after 4 years of it being my main place of employment. I will oddly miss it.

I focused on packing and getting things ready the next few days, all culminating into my shipping to Purdue yesterday. It was a surprisingly smooth move in. We came a day early and because of that, there were no crowds. I went and got the parking permit, moved everything up and we got the carpet laid down all fairly quickly. I then went out and had sushi with Kim and then dropped her off at her hotel. Then today I waited around putting stuff up in my room and waiting for Kim to call when she was going to move in, I offered to help and she said she was going to take me up on that offer. But instead I just found out they didn’t want my help and I guess I will talk to her tonight sometime. shrug So much for wasting a day around the dorm when i could have gone and visited friends.

Well so begins my final year of schooling. It’s been a long 16ish years of school thus far, but this final year is going to be different. Hopefully I will have time to keep updating this and possibly add on to the site, I have some ideas and have been working the code to make it easy to develop these ideas.