Woke up today feeling kinda sick, so I went back to bed rather than going to work. Felt quite a bit better in the afternoon, so I got some work done. Did pen-based computing (yay). Looked at OS P4 a bit (yay). Played ITG with Andres (whom I hadn’t seen since before summer) and it was awesome. Shot some portraits of Zach, because Zach is awesome and posed for me, and generally satisfied my portraiture urges.
So yeah… tons of photos:
I suppose I should update this, since I haven’t in a while and stuff has happened since Thanksgiving.
An Endeca interview happened. No offer, as expected. I suppose that’s just as well. Boston was mostly uneventful.
Some rejection letters happened… rejected three of the five offers I had. Two left to ponder over.
A P4 happened. I wrote the entire lab in about an hour. We’ve just now started debugging it, but it really shouldn’t take too long.
A work happened. I have a huge project for my final 3 days of work. I’m not going to get it anywhere near complete. I swear, my coworkers have way too much faith in me.
Also, complaints:
No one’s been available for portraits, and I haven’t shot any portraits in a semester… starting to feel this intense urge to shoot potraits again. People always seem to be too busy for me. I’m more torn than I thought I would be on my job offers, and one of them has an absolutely-final already-pushed-back-2-weeks-despite-corporate-policy deadline of tomorrow. I haven’t been doing well at ITG. I haven’t been fulfilling my commitments in Pen-based Computing (my group probably thinks I’m the world’s biggest slacker). Went out to try and shoot landscapes of the fresh snow, and that didn’t really work out either. The scroll wheel on my mouse is starting to go… I’m going to have to get used to using scrollbars again. Feeling incredibly inferior at photography after seeing some of the stuff submitted to the yearbook this year by people far more talented than I. No one is ever interested in my card games or anything.
Blah.
On top of everything, I’m almost certainly leaving Pittsburgh forever in under 2 weeks, and that’s really starting to sink in. I’m not ready to go out on my own.
Snow piccar, because why the hell not:
Went to Greg’s house for Thanksgiving this year, and generally had a lot of fun. There was turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, corn, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, and two (later three) kinds of pie. Tasty.
I guess when it rains it pours, because this was the first year I actually had somewhere to go for Thanksgiving, and Mark also invited all the seniors to his house for Thanksgiving (because he’s just that awesome).
We also went and did some Black Friday shopping because there was some stuff we wanted… I got a 500 GB hard drive (to use for backing up my existing drive) for $85 and a copy of 300, which I had been wanting to see. Great movie, and the visuals (once you get over the blood and gore) are amazing.
Tomorrow OS P4 comes out and I am busy with work again. Busy busy busy. Also, the deadlines for deciding on jobs is coming up soon. I’ve eliminated two of the five for sure, so I should probably send out rejection letters tomorrow. I still have Endeca to go (cancelled the Yahoo interview), so we’ll see how that turns out before I make a decision on the other 3.
I should work on Student Wars v2 and stuff.
So yeah, I didn’t get the Google offer.
That’s really for the better since it makes me decision quite a bit easier. I can now say with a bit of certainty that I will not be in Pittsburgh this January.
But meh… I’m not quite sure how I feel about it. Part of me is sad to be leaving Pittsburgh (and afraid to be moving somewhere new), but I’ll likely end up near people I know from CMU anyway, so it’ll be fine. I suppose this only reenforces my initial reaction that I was only interested in Google because of the location (Pittsburgh) and the name (Google)… I didn’t find the work particularly interesting (at least, not nearly as interesting as some of the other offers I have).
5 job offers on my plate for me to consider. Two more interviews after Thanksgiving, one of which I’ll probably end up cancelling (more because I’m sick of interviewing than I’m not actually interested in the company).
One of the 5 stands out to me as the clear top… but now that kernel is complete, I need to more carefully look at the other 4 to start eliminating them.
Overall, I’d say I came out pretty well in the job game. :)
There needs to be a party of great justice in December before I leave Pittsburgh.
Kernel was due Friday at midnight, and there was a floppy disk seminar (pizza!) immediately afterwards.
I felt really good about our kernel. We passed all the tests, including one of our own (cho_foo) that simultaneously ran the other 3 cho tests and (I believe) slaughtered some other tests as well.
8 wants to do a scheduler rewrite, so we took a late day, then another last night. I think I’m personally at the point where I don’t want to touch kernel code anymore until P4… as a result, I’m not being much help in the rewrite, but meh.
Next week is Thanksgiving and, for the first time since school has started, I have a place to go. It should be awesome and fun.
Wheee.
I find myself bored and wondering what I used to do with my free time now that the kernel is over.
I also find myself realizing that there is about a month left before I am done with college and have to go out and get a job. This scares me more than it should. Meh.
Also, friends are amazing.