Yesterday, I drove up to Washington & Lee University on my own initiative. I've applied to be a computer science professor there, so I was curious about the place. I also wanted to connect with Rick Peterson, the CTO of the university and an old friend of my advisor's ( Read more... )

"What do you want to do with your life?" It's a question I've managed to avoid so far. Instead of deciding after college, I punted for another 5 years and decided to get a Ph.D. instead ( Read more... )

Friday night before leaving for Asheville, I got a terrific piece of mail. Vern Paxson, one of the biggest names and most well-respected researchers in computer networking, told me he was pleased to offer me an internship with ICIR--in other words, a summer internship in Berkeley, CA, researching networking issues relevant to my work at UNC. This ( Read more... )

5 first years and I went over to Red Hat's headquarters in Raleigh for an "internship fair" this afternoon. IBM, Cisco, and SAS were also there. It was very crowded, and although 1-on-1 time with a recruiter was useful, it often took a half hour or more to get to that point. I was dressed up in a full-blown suit, leather binder-thingie and fancy ( Read more... )