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It's been a while since I've updated here. Lots has happened since the last time I updated... I guess here are the highlights:
Completed 6.170! melithiel, spikeyhedgehog, staticentropy and I created our version of Gizmoball, and won the "Best Game Play" award. My room turned into the 6.170 loons headquarters, and we all spent lots of time here.
Found a thesis advisor! During the spring term, I contacted a few different professors about theses in two areas I'm interested in, and after a bit of delayed e-mail exchanges (because of 6.170 keeping me busy), Hari Balakrishnan of the Network and Mobile Systems group at CSAIL agreed to take me on. I also asked him about an RAship, and he said to be optimistic about getting one one of the two terms I work with him.
But then we have... getting into VI-A. VI-A is a course 6 program allowing students to do their M.Eng theses at outside companies after having worked there for a summer or two beforehand. I was chosen by MIT Lincoln Laboratory. I'm finishing up work there this summer in Group 65, the Advanced Networks and Applications group, using two software tools, STK and OPNET Modeler to determine whether it's feasbile to establish airborne ad-hoc networks between aircraft in various military scenarios. Unfortunately, it's a bit frustrating at times because the tools for integrating the two software aren't fully developed, so I've run into lots of errors.
After getting accepted to VI-A, I then also got offered a TAship for 6.004 in the fall. Now this is where things get interesting. Since I hadn't gotten into VI-A last year, I started looking for a thesis advisor for an on-campus thesis. Then I got into VI-A, and these two obviously conflict. The TAship offer then also horribly confused the Lincoln HR person, the VI-A office, and in turn, Anne Hunter after news of it made its way through the various relevant people. After I cleared it up and talked with various people, I decided to see how Lincoln was this summer and then decide where to do my thesis. While this isn't definitive yet, I think I'm likely to take the position on campus in the fall. Regardless, though, I did also accept the TA position. (If I do my thesis at Lincoln, it would be starting in the spring and not the fall.)
So my schedule for the fall is now looking like:
12 units of 6.829 (Computer Networks)
6 units of 6.UAP (Undergraduate Advanced Project, aka my thesis proposal)
24 units of 6.981 (Teaching Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, aka TAing 6.004)
I was considering taking 6.831 (User Interface Design and Implementation), but the HKN review tells me that it's more time consuming than I'd like it to be, so sadly I'll have to put it off to Fall 2006.
Completed 6.170! melithiel, spikeyhedgehog, staticentropy and I created our version of Gizmoball, and won the "Best Game Play" award. My room turned into the 6.170 loons headquarters, and we all spent lots of time here.
Found a thesis advisor! During the spring term, I contacted a few different professors about theses in two areas I'm interested in, and after a bit of delayed e-mail exchanges (because of 6.170 keeping me busy), Hari Balakrishnan of the Network and Mobile Systems group at CSAIL agreed to take me on. I also asked him about an RAship, and he said to be optimistic about getting one one of the two terms I work with him.
But then we have... getting into VI-A. VI-A is a course 6 program allowing students to do their M.Eng theses at outside companies after having worked there for a summer or two beforehand. I was chosen by MIT Lincoln Laboratory. I'm finishing up work there this summer in Group 65, the Advanced Networks and Applications group, using two software tools, STK and OPNET Modeler to determine whether it's feasbile to establish airborne ad-hoc networks between aircraft in various military scenarios. Unfortunately, it's a bit frustrating at times because the tools for integrating the two software aren't fully developed, so I've run into lots of errors.
After getting accepted to VI-A, I then also got offered a TAship for 6.004 in the fall. Now this is where things get interesting. Since I hadn't gotten into VI-A last year, I started looking for a thesis advisor for an on-campus thesis. Then I got into VI-A, and these two obviously conflict. The TAship offer then also horribly confused the Lincoln HR person, the VI-A office, and in turn, Anne Hunter after news of it made its way through the various relevant people. After I cleared it up and talked with various people, I decided to see how Lincoln was this summer and then decide where to do my thesis. While this isn't definitive yet, I think I'm likely to take the position on campus in the fall. Regardless, though, I did also accept the TA position. (If I do my thesis at Lincoln, it would be starting in the spring and not the fall.)
So my schedule for the fall is now looking like:
12 units of 6.829 (Computer Networks)
6 units of 6.UAP (Undergraduate Advanced Project, aka my thesis proposal)
24 units of 6.981 (Teaching Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, aka TAing 6.004)
I was considering taking 6.831 (User Interface Design and Implementation), but the HKN review tells me that it's more time consuming than I'd like it to be, so sadly I'll have to put it off to Fall 2006.