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Happy Cinco de Mayo!
I'm feeling very five-y today... on 05-05-05.
So it's been a while since I've updated, mainly because I've been busy with graduating from college! I didn't think it'd be that exciting since I'm just going right back to classes in the fall for grad school. But it is pretty cool to officially be an engineer finally, something that I had always figured I'd do since about 6th grade. Other career options before that: garbage man, astronaut (actually I still want to do this one, but my eyesight is too poor. Thank goodness for civilian spaceflight), and astronomer. So now I am the official holder of a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida. This also means I actually have to know stuff now, and can no longer say "Oh I have no idea why that works, you'd have to ask an engineer". I really liked my major, and was very atypical in that I've known I wanted to do computer engineering since middle school and I still don't think I would have been happier studying anything else. And that companies pay (very very) well to do the things I love doing is even cooler. Speaking of which I start working for Intel in Oregon in a little over a week, and I'm really excited about it. They gave me some more info on what I'll be doing, and it'll use a lot of the things I've learned in my favorite classes, as well as a lot of Linux things. Fun stuff!
Graduating!
Me and a few others in my department. I think about 450 total graduated in Engineering that day.
And a few of my friends who also graduated Spring 2005 with me:
Me and my roommate Ryan (he's going to Med School)
Me and my very good friend Sarah (she's going to Tibet for a few months, how freakin cool is that?)
Me and my friend Alyson (also staying at UF for grad school, hooray!)
If anyone wants to get me a graduation present, may I suggest some Tetris bookshelves? A tad pricey yes, but so cool.
I also got my drivers license renewed today, since it was about to expire. I got to get the organ donor designation on my license, but I forgot to tell them to change the height (I've grown 3 inches since 16). And so far I have yet to get pulled over or in any accident, and I drive a fair amount, so here's to hoping my luck continues.
My luck has not continued with T-Mobile however. My phone broke a week ago, and while I was told I would get a replacement phone within a week, I called back after not recieving it and was told it would not ship until May 13th, over 3 weeks after the order was placed! And since I was told it would take under a week, I had it shipped to Gainesville where I am no longer at, and now they can't change the shipping address of a package that won't be shipped for another 2 weeks! Update: But after a sternly worded letter to their customer service, I just got an email saying they shipped it today, so I should get it pretty soon.
I've been making a ton of backups the last few days, since now is when I actually have time to do things like that. Looking through my old burned CD's, almost every single one either has a date in late December or early May on it. I've got a lot of stuff.
Oh, and in case you didn't see it, try high lighting the links on the last update. That third picture is just juice.
And dont' forget that tomorrow, May 6th, is No Pants Day!
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