I'm sitting at my desk waiting a few minutes before I go through the HR hoops and fill out forms, etc. The office is totally bare. A very surreal feeling. I know I should probably bring some pictures in, but that seems equally surreal. How do I not bring in a picture with Meredith in it ( Read more... )

Today's meeting went about as well as could be expected. The only thing that could have made it better was a blank check.

In response to my good-bye email, one of the principles I work with (and someone that brings in a lot of work from some of our biggest clients) had this to say (names have been changed to protect the innocent/firm-client confidentially agreements ( Read more... )

As I'm getting ready for my last day of work at Fish before heading off to law school, it's fun to think that at one point, after meeting with a patent attorney in Philly regarding my senior thesis, I thought that he must have a terribly boring job, and the fact that he got paid a lot of money wouldn't offset that fact. It's also interesting to ( Read more... )

Welcome To California!

Luckily it wasn't a very big one...

I believe this is my schedule for the next 2 weeks ( Read more... )

I think some of my work as a graduate student is going to be used as prior art for one of the applications we're filing.

( The long and short of it )

I'm not exactly sure how I feel about this, but it doesn't appear that anyone has scheduled/is scheduling a good-bye and good luck lunch for me on Friday. I guess it just validates the feeling of utter invisibility I had in the position I'm leaving. It's funny, because I don't feel like I've burned any bridges on my way out, but they've certainly ( Read more... )

Giving notice wasn't nearly as difficult as I had thought. He really didn't try to keep me. I think my boss understood the opportunity before me and was happy for me. He also wasn't that surprised, apparently I came off as unhappy, I wonder how the conversation would have gone if he was surprised. I also wonder what he really felt regarding the ( Read more... )