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The delay in updating isn't my fault for once, I was busy packing and getting ready for Huntsville, and then I just got the internet hooked up here. I bought a wireless router, and while my card doesn't work in Linux yet, being wireless in XP is very very cool.
I took the GRE (essentially the SAT for grad school) last Wednesday and did pretty well on it. My persuasive essay was about saving endangered animals, and the arguement essay was full of holes so it was easy to pick apart. And ended up with a 790 on the math section but only 560 on the verbal, even though I studied a bunch of vocabulary (both are out of 800). I also took an experimental math section was was sorta hard, but it reminded me a little of Mu Alpha Theta (math team) so it was sorta fun actually. At $125 a pop though, I was really hoping I wouldn't have to take it again.
Then Thursday was a good friend of mine's 21st birthday so that was a lot of fun, and then Friday I went up to Gainesville to see some friends up there one last time (and see two friends who both had jobs last semester so I hadn't seen them in months). Spent the night up there, and then drove the 11 hours to Huntsville. It was only supposed to be 9 hours, but I got stuck in traffic in Atlanta, and spent 2 hours going about 7 miles.
Met my roommate then when I got here, and started setting up the apartment. It's pretty nice, and comes fully furnished except that it doesn't have desks and there are no ceiling lights. So a quick trip to Wally World to buy a lamp and some food fixed that. And of course I took pictures, so here's Huntsville:
Notice the lack of desk
A cheap lamp
The living room furniture
The bedroom
My roommate crawling behind the washer to hook it up
The TV, wireless router, PS2, DDR Pads, etc (aka the Essentials)
Dressed up for work (no ties required)
One of NASA's main branches is here, so there's a visitor center which I'll hopefully visit soon, and then there's a ton of tech companies all around here, so it really is like a city of engineers. It's pretty cool.
Work then seems like it'll be really fun. I finally figured out what I was working on, basically emulating an embedded device (a computer that is always on and consists basically only of a CPU and memory) so that the full time people can test out their code on that without having to mess with the complicated and expensive debugging on the actual device. So none of my stuff ever gets used outside the company, but it's still a very important part of the development process. I also recieved a "Secret" level of classification clearance (there are three levels: Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret), which is cool, though I don't work on any classified things (all the code has "unclassified" at the top to make sure) so not sure why I got it. On the other hand since I'm an agent of the company, then it's like I'm a Secret Agent. *bada-bing*
And just to bring in a random link from the internet, here's a website that has voice samples from all over the world which can be used to practice your fake accents.
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