I need to stop procrastinating!

Not that I haven't been doing anything, just been taking way longer than I should and/or could have. Firstly, the thesis work is now haunting me... I dream about it too! mainly because I know what I have to do, but it entails me knowing C/C++ so I'm usually freaking out about it and reading some tutorials in attempts to avoid jumping in and digesting the code I have to work with... and that code I have to work with is Berkeley db kernel. I still find it motivating since I wanted to learn C/C++ for ages, and I learned Python and Ruby by start using them but I think the one thing that freaks me out is the scale of the program I must deal with... Strange somehow I never just start using C++ for things. I blame the pointers :P.

Other than the scary thesis work, just cruising through an Objected Oriented Programming course learning Smalltalk. Few strangely fascinating errors I had to deal with in Smalltalk, because the whole Squeak being Smalltalk and not just an IDE like Eclipse. I knew this but didn't really process it in my head and was treating Squeak as if it was an IDE. And one sticky object and perfectly correct piece of code that I added AFTER creating that sticky object meant me screaming at the computer screen "WHY ARE YOU FREAKIN' CHANGING MY CODE!!"... well... can't explain it better than that, but it was very interesting to say the least.

And half-a-good-news is that I got an internship offer!! But it was in India.... I don't remember applying to any non-US locations this time, but Infosys' internships are all done in India apparently. Having to go to India is very tempting, but maybe not during summer, and not when I have more places I want to visit in USA (since I'm here already!)... plus I have few more hopeful internship applications I am waiting for (*FRANTICALLY KNOCKS ON WOOD*)... So I declined it. Infosys is definitely a good company to intern at, but the interview was just toooooooooo easy and simple, I am not sure if they really care who will be interning at their company. I don't like "here is an array. Do some complicated thingi that is of absolutely no practical use on it in O(n) time and o(1) space restriction" type of crazy interview questions, but asking nothing at all technical for freshers/interns seem... just... not caring and "can't-be-bothered".

Already 1/3 way into the semester... better whoop myself into shape now.

a slow and hectic start of the semester

I've gone through a major rearranging of my coursework for the semester, freeing up as much time as possible for my thesis, so unlike the first week and a half of the semester I am finding a lot more of free time. I just have to makes sure that I don't use the time to procrastinate, which I tend to do. I do think I'm impossible sometimes, because I go crazy by having no time and studying/working like a mad person and then when I finally have some free time, I tend to slump and think I need a push of more schedule.. Oh how fickle of me :P.

But with all that free-er time, I've managed to line up 4 internship interviews, and whether I get to spend my summer in some exotic (I consider Boston exotic, or any other big metropolitan area for that matter, after spending nearly 2 years in the cornfields.. heck I found Auckland refreshingly exotic too!) or just doing summer school here, I don't really mind and that gives me less pressure to ace the interviews which is win-win for me.

As for my thesis work, rather slow start but definitely a start so I'm happy with that. Better keep the momentum building though.
Other than the usual school-study-TA work stuff, I'm looking forward to seeing Cirque du Soleil show at the university's assembly hall, or going to NY to see my cousin and few friends from NZ, or both ;) maybe both... One thing I miss the most from having a job is that I had money and time to spend weeks on traveling, not like as a student where I have to squeeze in few days out of supposedly-a-break during which I should really be doing more school work..

Oh well, I will stop procrastinating and go do some work then.