SOOOO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT!!!!
Alright there is just so much to recap I will break it down.
1) 9/18/07 I went to a NAWIC (National Association of Women in Construction) dinner where I was awarded a 500 dollar scholarship for being awesome. Actually I don't think they fully understood what I did because the people at the table hardly spoke to me at all. The bulk of the conversations I was politely listening to all involved either a father or a husband with cancer. Hmm...good dinner talk?
2) 9/20/07 I had to traverse all the way to the mother campus of Toledo for the co-op fair. I had an awful experience with a man who made me feel like I was worth absolutely nothing because I wasn't doing enough. I wanted to scream that if he could find time in my schedule for me I would gladly build whatever he wanted. ARGH! I could write a whole other entry about this but he isn't worth it. Long story short I had a good time and got to bond with some of the freshies I didn't know.
3) 9/21/07 The Reverend, Mama Jo, and myself traveled back to Toledo for I had an interview with a company called Hamilton Sundstrand. I felt my interview went swimmingly! So the family and I had a day in Toledo! We went to this absolutely gorgeous seafood restaurant that I highly recommend. It was called The Real Seafood and was located right on the river. Then we went to The Glass Pavilion. All I can say is COOL! The entire building is made of steel and glass. The individual rooms were made of glass so you could see through the entire building! Sadly the reverend did run into a wall. (Hehe) Here is a small glimpse of this stunning little place...http://www.toledomuseum.org/Visit_GlassPavilion.htm
Then on the way home we stopped at a lovely little chocolatier in Vermillion,OH. It was a wonderful end to a great day.
4) 9/27/07 Dave and myself skipped assembly language to go visit a company with potential co-ops. The company, Brulant, was having an open house for almost anyone interested in them. They had great presentations about what they did, there was good food, and they had Halo 3 playing on a huge screen for anyone to play. I fell in love with the company and would have gladly worked for them. As fate would have it, it wasn't meant to be...(dramatic music) Read on for details!
5) 9/29/07 A gaggle of nerds (myself included) piled into a van and went to Columbus for the LinuxFEST! It was so much fun! I left the expo with 4 free t-shirts, at least 2 full operating systems, and tons of stickers. There were some great presentations and some awful ones but the most interesting one was the One Laptop Per Child program. It's this little laptop that in theory will only cost 100 dollars and can be given to almost everyone in Africa. I have read about this laptop and seen little pictures of it in Popular Science magazines. BUT I GOT TO TOUCH ONE IN REAL LIFE!!!!!!!
Okay I think that was all the important dates. Now, what happened with Brulant. I got offered the co-op that I wanted at Hamilton Sundstrand! Sadly, Brulant just wasn't on the ball because they are a very "green", up and coming company. They just aren't ready for co-ops. But HS has a great track record and will support me! Of course this means that I will be moving to Rockford,IL in the spring which is a little nerve-racking but I had to get away from home someday so this is it! I'm so excited!
The boys in my program have recently all been about first person shooter games for the PC. Well, I just never got on that bandwagon but one, Bret, keep talking about this game expansion pack thingy that included this little puzzle game. Puzzle games I do like! It's called Portal and it is so much fun! Bret let me play it on his laptop and I'm almost done. But watch the trailer for an idea of what it is about http://orange.half-life2.com/portal.html.
1) 9/18/07 I went to a NAWIC (National Association of Women in Construction) dinner where I was awarded a 500 dollar scholarship for being awesome. Actually I don't think they fully understood what I did because the people at the table hardly spoke to me at all. The bulk of the conversations I was politely listening to all involved either a father or a husband with cancer. Hmm...good dinner talk?
2) 9/20/07 I had to traverse all the way to the mother campus of Toledo for the co-op fair. I had an awful experience with a man who made me feel like I was worth absolutely nothing because I wasn't doing enough. I wanted to scream that if he could find time in my schedule for me I would gladly build whatever he wanted. ARGH! I could write a whole other entry about this but he isn't worth it. Long story short I had a good time and got to bond with some of the freshies I didn't know.
3) 9/21/07 The Reverend, Mama Jo, and myself traveled back to Toledo for I had an interview with a company called Hamilton Sundstrand. I felt my interview went swimmingly! So the family and I had a day in Toledo! We went to this absolutely gorgeous seafood restaurant that I highly recommend. It was called The Real Seafood and was located right on the river. Then we went to The Glass Pavilion. All I can say is COOL! The entire building is made of steel and glass. The individual rooms were made of glass so you could see through the entire building! Sadly the reverend did run into a wall. (Hehe) Here is a small glimpse of this stunning little place...http://www.toledomuseum.org/Visit_GlassPavilion.htm
Then on the way home we stopped at a lovely little chocolatier in Vermillion,OH. It was a wonderful end to a great day.
4) 9/27/07 Dave and myself skipped assembly language to go visit a company with potential co-ops. The company, Brulant, was having an open house for almost anyone interested in them. They had great presentations about what they did, there was good food, and they had Halo 3 playing on a huge screen for anyone to play. I fell in love with the company and would have gladly worked for them. As fate would have it, it wasn't meant to be...(dramatic music) Read on for details!
5) 9/29/07 A gaggle of nerds (myself included) piled into a van and went to Columbus for the LinuxFEST! It was so much fun! I left the expo with 4 free t-shirts, at least 2 full operating systems, and tons of stickers. There were some great presentations and some awful ones but the most interesting one was the One Laptop Per Child program. It's this little laptop that in theory will only cost 100 dollars and can be given to almost everyone in Africa. I have read about this laptop and seen little pictures of it in Popular Science magazines. BUT I GOT TO TOUCH ONE IN REAL LIFE!!!!!!!
Okay I think that was all the important dates. Now, what happened with Brulant. I got offered the co-op that I wanted at Hamilton Sundstrand! Sadly, Brulant just wasn't on the ball because they are a very "green", up and coming company. They just aren't ready for co-ops. But HS has a great track record and will support me! Of course this means that I will be moving to Rockford,IL in the spring which is a little nerve-racking but I had to get away from home someday so this is it! I'm so excited!
The boys in my program have recently all been about first person shooter games for the PC. Well, I just never got on that bandwagon but one, Bret, keep talking about this game expansion pack thingy that included this little puzzle game. Puzzle games I do like! It's called Portal and it is so much fun! Bret let me play it on his laptop and I'm almost done. But watch the trailer for an idea of what it is about http://orange.half-life2.com/portal.html.