Butterflies
2007-12-02 19:24 -
Tomorrow, I have my second-round interviews with one of the Bay Area companies I mentioned earlier.
I have major butterflies in my stomach, because I have no idea about what’s going to be thrown at me. A number of friends spoke very highly of this company compared to the other company that I’m still in first-round interviews with (one friend already has accepted an offer there). I’m very excited and nervous. I just hope I don’t get skewered on algorithms questions, as theoretical CS is not my core strength.
The weekend was fairly relaxing – I escaped from Tech and spent the weekend with Salia in Sacramento, and am now headed down to Stanford to spend the night near Palo Alto so I can just pop over to Facebook downtown in the morning. We played Catan and various other games, watched TV, and ate tasty food. It’s truly wonderful to share cuddles and develop a close emotional bond instead of being isolated and alone.
I think that dilation time really heavily depends upon the quality of my bed, which might explain why dilation became much more difficult after I arrived at Caltech in October – I managed to get dilation done in under 3.5 hours today, which is much better than the 5-7 hours dilation’s been taking over the past week.
Unfortunately, I didn’t make very much time to work on physics, but I am going to have to crunch really hard on that to get the last problem set done and get ready for the final exam. Bleh.
In general, I think my mood has been significantly more upbeat whenever I’ve been away from Caltech, so I think I’m making the right decision to take leave. I’m tremendously excited for the future, although a lot of the details are still hazy. The other song I’m tempted to quote is from Wicked, but perhaps I shall save that for when I have more concrete information to write about.
blows a kiss
Glad you enjoyed the visit! You might want to try visiting random discount type stores to see if you can find a few inexpensive eggcrate pads. Most comfortable bed I’ve ever used was just one Big block of the stuff, if I remember rightly.
— Salia Dec 3, 02:01 AM #