2 months into the semester, 6 pounds lighter, now I am 101 pounds. No, not been on a diet of any sort but lost that much by pure tiredness, lack of sleep, stress and overwhelming workload. Still did very bad in one midterm exam and the other one I'm waiting for the result.
I thought losing weight and getting thinner was OK but definitely not this way. I didn't skip meals but mostly had to replace them with quick-to-prepare bagels/oatmeals/sandwich with nothing but ham in it etc. I could have bought nice meals every time, but I'm a poor graduate student so not gonna happen... as a result, I felt so out of myself these days and I had low-blood-pressure-attack this morning and it was not pleasant at all. But now that I have a little bit more time and have less exam-related stress, I cooked me a nice meal (black pepper beef! sauce was ready-made though) for dinner tonight and it was sooooo niiiiceee.... I am going to get back to a weight that I feel healthy in.
And still absolutely no research done whatsoever. I've been told repeatedly that master's thesis is more like a project report so I have nothing to worry about, but I'm not worried if I can finish it or not. I'm worried it will end up like a project report rather than a proper research. What is the point in doing that otherwise? I'll start bugging my professor again soon...
What else... oh yeah job hunting. I have a couple of friends in NZ who have successfully found a job in the states, one in Mountain View (Google! OMG!!) and one in NY. Hearing that I am pumped to find me a job too, and what do you know, we had a job fair in Siebel Center today with Microsoft, Intel, Lockheed Martin, NSA, Cerner, Salesforce etc. So I went along, handed my resume to couple of places that interested me (couldn't even get close to MS though, too many students lining up) and got one positive feedback that they will contact me for a phone interview soon. I still dread the interview process and feel I always come out short, but experience-wise, it is better to have many not-so-good interviews than hoping to nail one and only one interview with Google (yeah I still do want to work at Google :P).
Better get back to C# coding or my project group mates will hate me :(
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