No sleep, but job possibilities and scholarship
I haven’t slept in the past two days. Why? This EECS 430 project while fighting off a cold. I might not do well on this project, but at least there are some good things happening in my life.
For one, the Case Alumni Association has extended me a generous scholarship for the next two semesters. I’m not sure if I will still be around in two semesters - but that is a whole other story (which I should be able to tell by Friday). I actually showed up to that interview sans suit (because they never told me to wear one…), but I guess I did a good enough job impressing them.
For two, I have be contacted by Google - you know, that company with the search engine - for a possible internship/job. w00t is not quite strong enough a word to describe the feeling I got when I saw that email. w00t++ will have to do. More info on that later as the story develops.
For three, I am being flown out to Chicago for an interview with Avanade next Friday. They are ‘a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft to provide business- and industry-based solutions utilizing Microsoft technology’. Sounds cool to me. I’m looking forward to the trip.
On the whole, I’m kind of down right now.
I feel like I have been letting a lot of friends, my fraternity, and project groups down. I have focussed on myself quite a bit in the last month or so and haven’t given back much. Lots of time wasted chasing a girl, wasted making money, and wasted wasting money. Tons of personal time spent cooking, watching old movies, and trivial stuff - which is cool - but kind of lonely. I’m going to change that.
I’m going to put the laptop away during class and meetings as much as possible. It’s too much of a distraction and I guess it really is disrespectful to other around me. I’m going to spend more time at the Fraternity house - this next week is Greek Week and I feel like I’m barely a part of it this year. So, I am going to try to catch up in the next couple days. I’m going to focus less on my extracuricular jobs (sorry guys) and more on my schoolwork - particularly my EECS projects and homework. That’s the plan, anyways. We’ll see how it goes.