Sazzly

Time flies! I get upset when someone's blog who I've been checking doesn't update for a week, and it's been almost a month for me. I apologize. I've been figureing out what kind I would like to do this summer. I thought I wanted an internship doing Computer Engineering stuff, like I learned in a class last semester. So that's what I told our contacts with IBM, and a manager was even interested in me. However, once I was talking seriously about getting the job, I realized that I wasn't all that excited about it. I also realized that I was very interested in what I was doing in my math class: error control codes - which is electrical and computer engineering, but also very math-intensive! And how much better can you get? Both ECE and Math? Beautiful pure abstract math, but also with applications? Did anyone know this type of thing existed? I am very excited about it. However, this is less of an enginnering thing, and more of a research thing. You can still do this type of thing at a company like IBM, but it's the research area. So I decided to tell my interested manager that my interests have changed, and apply for REU's (Reserach Experiences for Undergraduates) in Math and ECE -- and especially where they crossover.

It's funny, I started rearranging my resume to support applying for math positions, and my resume seemed to line up behind it - with all of the classes that I have taken and the tutoring I have done.

Here is a picture from a couple weeks ago when it snowed. It's been snowing pretty frequently, e.g. today it snowed for a little while.

Snow in the hair

Yay for snow! It is so peaceful when it falls . . . this night, it also made a nice powder on the bricks, so we ran down the path and jumped, so we would slide, like we were skiing.

Well, I made a Pillsbury SnowBoy to be specific. On Sunday my college had a snow sculpture contest. I had never rolled a snowball into a part of a snow man before, so I decided to join a girl from Bakersfield, California who was also enjoying rolling a little snowball into a BIG snowball. There were about 4 of us rolling snowballs at one point. We had some extras around, so after there were 3 large snowballs on top of eachother, someone put another one on top of the snowman to make four. We liked it, and it was then decided that it looked like a chef's hat, and chef?--why the pillsbury dough boy is a chef! Let's make it? We ended up winning the contest! The other scultures were a snowman asleep at his desk, with math books and calculators etc. around him, a dragon, and a Calvin-and-Hobbs-esque piece of a snowman swimming frantically with two shark fins on its tail.


The Pillsbury SnowBoy

the boy who looks like Humpty Dumpty
Ah yes, so after we were done forming the Pillsbury Snowboy we had a few snowballs left over--mainly mine and another small one, so we made this small boy here. :) He has a mohawk.

Wellesley Icicles
When I went sledding at Wellesley there were these Huge beautiful iciles all over their beautiful buildings!


the Cocoa
As requested, this is the adorable Cocoa--sitting on my dad's lap.