EOC at CMU

Spring is a time for finding a job because most of students are graduating after this semester. That's why CMU's holding a big job fair called Employment Opportunities Conference (EOC for short). I also joined the event because I need to find an internship for my summer. That's the requirement of my program. It was so crowded inside the gym. I talked with many companies with hope that one of them will accept me (-_-"). The companies I talked to include Microsoft, Apple, Mozilla, VMWare, EA, Oracle, Amazon, Yahoo!, and much more (got a lof of gifts too! ha ha ha). Anyone wants me for the summer internship? ;-)

Timestamp: 7 February 2008

Wow! Pittsburgh zoo in winter (-_-")

I knew that Pittsburgh has a zoo for a long time, but I just had chance to go there in winter. Hmm....sounds like not a good time to go there, right? And it's true. Most of animals were not at their places. I think the zoo might kept them somewhere which is warmer than outside (it's still pretty cold at the time I went there). However, some were still left to see: lions, leopard, the polar bears, penguins. The zoo was not so big, so I could complete the whole park in 2-3 hours. It's also a lot of fun to watch the small penquins and meerkats. It should be better to come again in summer :-).

Timestamp: 19 January 2008

Machine Learning

Machine Learning, the innovative invention to teach machine to learn just like our human. It's a great course, of course. What makes it more special is I am studying with Tom Mitchell. However, it's also very difficult. I didn't have any statistics background before and all the materials are related to statistical method & data. I also had a lot of workload this semester because another course, Distributed Systems was also tough. I wish I could give more time & effort on this subject....

Timestamp: 25 January 2008

Back to School!

Pheewww... the winter break was over, and it's time to come back to study again. I arrived Pittsburgh just few days before the semester started. The weather was still (damn) cold here. There was snow everywhere... (-_-"). However, I know that spring was coming and everyone was waiting for it. I just understood now why American people love to lie on green grasses under strong sunlight. That's because they were so sick for the black & white shade of winter! Me too!

I was taking 4 courses this Spring. They included Machine Learning (wow~ tough one), Distributed Systems (wow~ another tough one for me), Web Application Development (I love this course a lot), and VLIS seminar. Hope I can survive this semester (-_-").

Timestamp: 14 January 2008.

Tour de Silicon Valley

Okie! Finally the Silicon Valley tour had already started. We went to many companies in this southern California area. Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Salesforce, CNET, Sun, Cisco, and much more were here. We had about 5 days but we went to all the companies in just 3 days. The first day was about the orientation and some small companies gave us a talk. The last day was the interview day. I didn't bring my suit and everyone wore suit everyday... hmm...I was a blacksheep in this event, but that's fine. At least most of the companies here were tech companies, and all of their employees were casual! So, I was not that weird... :-)). Visiting these big companies were really great and inspring. I wanna have my own company which can make some impacts to the world as just like them too...

Timestamp: January 10, 2008

Carnegie Mellon West Campus

I had arrived Carnegie Mellon West campus just a day before the Silicon valley tour started. My friend, Umm (and his girlfriend) drove me to the campus. Thanks so much! dude. The west campus was not that big. It had only 2-3 buildings and it resided in NASA Research center. I stayed in a provided room with another roommate. One bad thing was this place was really far from anything. Ok, just waiting for the tour to start...

Timestamp: January, 8 2008

Back to San Francisco again

After I departed LA and bye-bye to all the friends in the trip, I took a shuttle bus back to San Francisco again. This was because I had registered for Tour de Silicon Valley event at CMU. So, I needed to go to CMU west campus in NASA Muffet field, which was pretty close to San Francisco. I stayed with my friend, Fluke in the downtown for about a week. We went to many travel places in the downtown.

Timestamp: January 5, 2008