August 2006

Fun in Chambanaland

So today was the first day of classes. I had two: Algorithms and Programming Languages (the one I dropped last semester due to the incredible stupidity of the TA's and professor). This semester it won't be too bad - hopefully.

Tomorrow I have a Special Topics course in computer security. I've heard it's pretty lame, but hopefully it's not true. And even if it is, "pretty lame" == "easy A" - hopefully. Then tomorrow evening I take the train to Chicago so that I can attend my sister's wedding on Saturday.

I'm a little disappointed about where I ended up living. It's a 1-bedroom in an old Victorian house, and it's not too expensive, but it's a) far from campus, and b) unfurnished. Jacky had given me the email address of a girl he knew interested in subleasing her place, but she didn't get back to me until Monday, and I didn't read the email until yesterday. Her place? Two blocks from the Siebel Center.

So anyway, Microsoft did end up making me a full-time offer, and I think I'm going to accept. So just one more year of this drudgery, and then it's back out to sunny Redmond to start my career in earnest. I'm starting to think that maybe the MS Ambassador program should not comprise part of that year, though; it's become increasingly clear that it's a worthless program run by incompetent morons.

Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 11:14:33 UTC in Personal - Permanent link