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Goodbye Adolescence
It has been a while since I have talked here, and boy how things have changed. I don’t really have much to say, despite all that has happened in my life during college. Just as everyone, I could probably write a book on my college life, it was a blast. There were many ups and downs, but the experience as a whole is something I will treasure and remember forever. I will lay down the finer points here, my greatest accomplishments. I graduated from the University of Houston with a B.S in Computer Science and minor in Math. I finished my...
read moreIntel Internship
So a brief update on my life. I have left my former job as a Software Application Developer at JPMorgan Chase and I have accepted an internship position at Intel. I will be working in C/C++/Fortran compiler support with a focus on High Performance Computing. I am also (hopefully) going to get a chance to tackle some stuff on Intel’s MeeGo initiative, as I have pretty extensive experience with Java. I have just arrive in Hillsboro, OR where I am renting a room from some pretty nice people I found on craigslist. I’m just barely 3...
read moreSpring 2011 Semester Begins at the University of Houston
So here I am in the Spring semester of my Junior year at the University of Houston. Some exciting news is that UH has achieved Tier 1 status which is a pretty big deal. Basically it acknowledges that the University has very high research activity. UH received more than $100 million in grants which was a big factor in receiving the status. This puts UH on par with the University of Texas and Texas A&M University which were previously the only Texas tier 1 schools. UH can now be even more competitive in research grants and hire on even more...
read moreWork is Fun
A lot of people I know have pretty lame jobs. Today I was snacking on oatmeal, drinking mocha coffee and coding. I have dual monitors, on one I have Eclipse and some SSH sessions into our Linux and Solaris boxes at work. The other runs IE6 (lame) for testing my code and Firefox for code-lookup (and huffingtonpost reading) purposes (today in particular was Struts 2 action wildcard tutorials). I was in the zone, I had several log files scrolling like crazy with tail -f and my build script running and deploying my webapp every few minutes after...
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