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Posted by: chelsea86 Original: 10/23/2007 10:09 PM Views: 7 Comments: 0 eProps: 0 Read Comments Post a Comment Back to Your Xanga Site |
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
| First things first, I got my job offer letter from Lockheed today. It's to go back to New Jersey like I did last summer and continue evaluating more commercial off-the-shelf products they could use in their computer systems on naval ships. It's a really good offer, and it's pretty tempting. It is still early, though, and I'm really hoping to get a space-related job, so I asked for an extension. From what I hear it's pretty normal to ask for more time to decide. If I didn't get another offer, this one would be a good starting point for me. I've got a lot of advice coming at me from a lot of different people, but I think for now I'm just going to wait. It's weird deciding if I want to go back to New Jersey or not. Sometimes I find myself wondering what my old co-workers or the other interns are doing right now. It's weird to live in a place for a few months, get used to the area and people, then leave and not know if you're ever going back there... The SWE National Conference is in Nashville this weekend. We leave tomorrow afternoon and get into Nashville around 11:00pm. The Team Tech competition practice is first thing Thursday morning, so we'll be up bright and early to cheer Jordan on with her presentation. The career fair there is going to be huge, so I'm excited for that. There are over 250 companies that are attending, and I've got a list of about 10 that I'm really interested in talking to. Sometimes they even do on-the-spot interviews, so it's pretty exciting. We have Saturday night free, so we'll be exploring downtown Nashville. That should be pretty fun. Teresa even found some kind of club that we can all get into (Ashley and I are the only ones who are 21). I've mostly been doing homework lately. I was in the design lab from 8:30am - 4:00pm on Saturday. That was pretty depressing. It was the preview day for all the high school students who wanted to come visit, so we could see them through the tiny design lab windows. We wanted to go warn them but chose not to. Ashley is a Campus Academic Mentor, so she had a three hour meeting with various students. One of them asked her if it's hard. Um, of course it's hard. It's rocket science. It's college. If the only question you can come up with when you're visiting your possible school is "is it hard?", you're never going to make it. Prelim is coming along pretty well. I made an amazing simulation in STK (Satellite Tool Kit). Whenever our satellite is in view of the Earth, it draws a nice green line between the spacecraft and the station on Earth. It's kind of mesmerizing, because you can watch a video of it in 3-D. I was showing it off, when Yu said I should make it a cone instead of a line so the connection between our satellite and the Earth is 3-D when you watch the 3-D view. I told him I didn't know how, so he showed me. I almost think that I learn more useful information from my peers sitting in the design lab than in class sometimes. Anyway, now my sim is basically amazing. It also requires a special program to run, but I'll try to post pictures here sometime (I'm too lazy to find somewhere to upload them right now...) Other than that, I haven't been doing much... | |
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