Yup...
Well, Jake bought me some paid time, so I figure I'd better update, or I'll never hear the end of it.
I can summarize the last five or so entries I've written in my head over the last nine weeks in one sentence: I love my job. Google is such a wonderful place to work. If you're thinking of applying for a job or internship there, I'd suggest reading this, and any of Steve Yegge's blog posts in general. I think I'm a bit late to the Steve Yegge party, but his blog posts are cruel, funny, tech-y, and I always learn something whenever I read them. The only problem is that I often have to remind myself that reading blog posts about topic X doesn't mean I actually know topic X. Time to crack open the books... I hope I learn some interesting things next year now that I'm in upper division CS. I feel a bit behind compared to all the StanfordMITHarveyMudd students I meet at Google with quadruple majors in Everything Sciences, but that's nothing new. If there's anything I've learned this summer, it's also not a bad thing. You learn a hell of a lot hanging out around people who know more than you do, people who are so far out of your knowledge league that you can't even feel bad about it.
I got totally distracted while writing this post, and now it's a couple hours later and I've completely lost my train of thought, so I think I'll just post this and leave while I'm still ahead.
I can summarize the last five or so entries I've written in my head over the last nine weeks in one sentence: I love my job. Google is such a wonderful place to work. If you're thinking of applying for a job or internship there, I'd suggest reading this, and any of Steve Yegge's blog posts in general. I think I'm a bit late to the Steve Yegge party, but his blog posts are cruel, funny, tech-y, and I always learn something whenever I read them. The only problem is that I often have to remind myself that reading blog posts about topic X doesn't mean I actually know topic X. Time to crack open the books... I hope I learn some interesting things next year now that I'm in upper division CS. I feel a bit behind compared to all the StanfordMITHarveyMudd students I meet at Google with quadruple majors in Everything Sciences, but that's nothing new. If there's anything I've learned this summer, it's also not a bad thing. You learn a hell of a lot hanging out around people who know more than you do, people who are so far out of your knowledge league that you can't even feel bad about it.
I got totally distracted while writing this post, and now it's a couple hours later and I've completely lost my train of thought, so I think I'll just post this and leave while I'm still ahead.