Greetings from Boston!

I landed in Boston last night, to settle before starting my internship with Raytheon on Tuesday. Needless to say, I am excited (and nervous!) to start my first internship, but I look forward to it a lot.

Before things really get started, I'd like to play catch-up. This is where I post everything that you've been missing these past few weeks! (and in some cases what I've been missing, but just happened to snap a photo while I walked from one computer to another).

Included in this post are pictures of CMU's infamous Carnival, ECE Day, the Pittsburgh skyline, and, as a bonus, some pictures of Lowell, where I'm living this summer!

Carnival

Every year CMU hosts its Carnival. The university gives its students two days off to enjoy Spring and a series of student-run events. It's an outlet for creativity, and a last hurrah before buckling down for finals.

My personal favorite, the annual Mobot race, draws quite a crowd.


Student organizations pulled out all the stops on Midway this year. The booths were amazing. Unfortunately, I was coding Malloc all weekend, so I couldn't go see many of the booths up close, but I did manage to shoot some of the amazing structures students put together.



SWE's booth: Mt. Everest. It turned out really well.

ECE Day

The sun finally decided to come out for ECE day, traditionally held on the last day of classes. It's a food-filled, faculty-soaked afternoon with music, games, and a lot more food.Look at all the smiling faces! Classes are over! But Proxy isn't. Can you spot the bags under the eyes?

Grant, my lab partner in 18220, attempts to dunk our 18202 TA, Kyle. Too bad I dunked him first! Then the professor himself has a go...
Max looking snazzier than usual in his hat that screams "I'm in charge of transporting burgers from the grill to Hammerschlag Hall, so if you want to beat the line, slip me a few green backs and one may get conveniently lost on the way!"

Pittsburgh

Andrey and I hung out for a day before I left for Boston, going places such as the Carnegie Science Center (we're 10-year-olds at heart) and Mt. Washington to see the Pittsburgh skyline. We also scored a free lasagna at Buca di Beppo, courtesy of the chef who forgot to remove the wrapper from the butter before baking it into the nine layers of pasta.

Andrey's first freeze-dried ice cream. This stuff comes from space?

A wonderful fountain contraption in tribute to the countless hours Andrey spent building fountains at this very spot as a child.


Panorama of Pittsburgh's beautiful skyline by night.

Lowell

Quaint and very, very empty on Sundays, Lowell is a small city that boasts UMass Lowell. And that's about it. There's an old church for sale on Merrimack St. for sale, if you're interested.
Washington would have had an easy time crossing the Merrimack here! This may be a product of the many canals throughout the city, however.

Edit: This is my 200th post on this blog! Happy 200th!

Hello, World!

Remember me? I used to write on this blog all the time. I can understand if you don't. As you can see, I haven't written here for over two months!

The excuses are already lined up: between then and now I have written my own shell, my own malloc package, and a proxy. I graded pounds of paper worth of homeworks, lab reports, and exams. I even had my own labs!

In a nut shell (or bash or csh or whatever it is you use), I've been very busy this semester, so I apologize to those of you who check this blog to see if I'm alive. Although if that's the case, then my funeral must have been weeks ago. Shame, I would have sent flowers.

In the next few days, I hope to include some posts with pictures from events earlier this semester. Now that finals are over, I have a little more time on my hands before I head up to Boston to work for Raytheon as a summer intern. In the meantime, please be content with my anticipated schedule for next semester.

And go see Star Trek! Not quite your original series, but it has Zachary Quinto in it, which is a big deal around here (he's a CMU alumnus). That's the first thing I did after finals. It's definitely worth the two hours.