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My name is Lee. I'm your average geek, mostly. I've interned at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBL) where I learned that I love high performance computing/cluster, I'm semi-proficient in (X)HTML and CSS, I'm (slowly) learning C++/CLI and PHP, and I've worked with a few different Linux distros (SuSE, Debian, Ubuntu). I have a love of photography that I've been nurturing for almost two years now. I started with a low-end point-and-shoot camera from Kodak and have now moved on to a prosumer Nikon (CoolPix 8800). Oh, and I have a thing for cat ears and candy canes. For the hell of it... Jan 16, 2008, 00:09:46
Wow. My last journal entry was over a year ago. Actually, that doesn't surprise me. deviantART seeped it's way back into my life during my first semester of university, with the end result of now being on the MN@ team. Let's go with a little run down on my life since my last journal...I was with Tim at the time, but I ended that in December, right before I went back home. I stayed boyfriend-less for a bit and made a very good friend. My grades that semester sucked. My second semester of school, spring 2007, included many personal problems. I almost completely lost my bestfriend, I failed a chem exam (but somehow passed a diff eq exam the same night...) and I gained a... well, an almost boyfriend. My chem final sucked so bad that I couldn't get myself together to study for my physics final, which resulted in damaging my grade pretty badly. I got my first A, in a shit-easy 2 credit class on MATLAB. My grades still sucked hard. Summer time... wasn't much fun in many ways. Despite being fully qualified, I was turned down for internships at three National Labs because my GPA was too low. I found it really upsetting that there were people at Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) that wanted to hire me (because of my experience the previous summer at LBL), but the HR department refused to waive the minimum GPA requirement. I ended up working at the local movie theater (the same one I worked at for three months during my senior year of high school) and for my family. I sorely missed my "almost boyfriend." Finally, just before returning to school, we listed ourselves on Facebook as being together (it's not official until it's on Facebook, amirite?). Fall 2007, my third semester at Clarkson. I worked my ass off. I practically lived with Dave, the aforementioned boyfriend. I nearly dropped my math class (calc III) because I had a douche of professor, but the math department stepped in, removed his teaching responsibilities and put in two excellent professors to replace the douche (his nickname among students was actually Douchebag Dempsey, to differentiate him from his twin brother, who's a (good) professor, in engineering). Dave and I went to Montreal, Quebec over our fall break; it was a lot of fun. I struggled through electrical science with Dave's help, got D+'s on my two midterm exams and then pulled a B in the class. My semester GPA was a 3.6, probably the best GPA I've ever had (three A's and two B's). Unfortunately, it didn't raise my overall GPA enough to qualify for the internships that I didn't get last summer. This semester? It hasn't even been a week. I have my first ECE lab, which is going to be a total bitch. I'm just hoping I can get a minimum of a C+, but preferably a B or B+. I'm retaking a class I did terribly in my first semester here and I think I'm going to end up really annoyed by it. I'm taking a continuation of electrical science this semester (same prof, even) and I think Dave's still going to have to tutor me in this stuff. Things are still going good with Dave. I guess I should maybe fill you guys in on Dave, things might make a bit more sense. Dave graduates in May, with an MBA and a Masters in Electrical Engineering. He did his undergrad degree here, too, double majoring in electrical engineering and physics. He's done with schooling for now and has accepted a job with Duracell in South Carolina. He's an athlete - swimming through high school and his undergrad work and now on crew. He was in marching band in high school. I'd show you guys a picture, but he hates having his picture taken. This is an usually large amount for me to write and I didn't even cover everything. This is definitely enough for now. Read More Comments
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