There's a phase of my life I don't think I've quite outgrown yet, though I am trying, and I've very much recognized the need to outgrow it. Back when I was a sophomore at Microsoft, a lot of folks treated me initially with kid gloves. When they realized that I was actually reasonably competent and not a complete idiot, they were taken aback. This ( Read more... )

So I have job now while finishing up school. The place is a startup in Mountain View that competes directly against Google search (natch, no corporate loyalty ( Read more... )

I've come to become a lot less bitter about my undergraduate department than I was a year or two ago. This is a good thing in a certain sense, but I'm also actually sort of ashamed at the resigned disregard I've brought to the table when before, I would have resisted, complained, and fought with every fiber of my existence the wrongs we underwent ( Read more... )

At career fairs, talks, guest lectures, communications, email, etc. people make it sound like everyone there has this incredible, strong sense of loyalty to one's employer ( Read more... )

Every now and again, while doing something, I get this feeling of being empowered, of having the ability to do great and incredible things with what ability I have learned and able to see the beauty of the technology and business I immersed myself in. I felt that way today while working, a sense of satisfied contentment ( Read more... )

Back when I was in high school, after reading Arthur Miller's The Crucible, there was a short epilogue to the play titled "Footsteps Down the Corridor." It basically detailed what became of Elizabeth Proctor after her husband was executed and Abigail Williams' eventual fate as a prostitute driven out of her hometown ( Read more... )

So graduation happened this past weekend. I started work at Google this past Tuesday. Everything they say about Google is all true and much, much more. It is, so far, the most incredible work environment I have ever encountered. I'm bound by legal contract that I can't really disclose any of the stuff I learn or do there until late 2007 ( Read more... )

A rather interesting article I came across recently, published a little more than two months ago: http://www.careerjournal.com/columnists/perspective/20060329-fmp.htmlRead more... )

The current Graduate ee TA, who accompanied us to the SCTI program in Japan, made a rather sober assessment of the ee department ( Read more... )

About three months ago, I wrote about jobs and futures and what not. Along with Japanese, anime, Thai food, audio equipment, and cars, it's become one of the staple morbid obsessions I've unhealthily developed ( Read more... )