It's been much too long since I've written, and therefore I write. This semester has been a ton of hard work, but also very rewarding. I've been doing school work from the time I get home until the time I go to bed every day of the week including Saturdays for the whole semester. That's what I get for taking 4 computer science classes. It is, however, paying off. As it stands I have A's in all of my classes, so this could be the first time in my life I've had a 4.0. The closest I've ever come was in high school when I had a semester with one A-.
It's also paying off in other ways. This semester I've written a fully functional web server from the ground up, a 3D renderer that does lighting and shading, and a ray tracer (that's what Pixar uses to render 3D scenes) that does lighting, shadows, and reflections. By the end of the semester I will have also finished two computer games as group projects. One of them is an RC Racing game (which is starting to look really awesome), and the other is a 3D version of Tower Defense. I will also have written a database query language and a website similar to IMDB for video games. At work I just finished a tool for searching e-mail gateway log files, and I wrote a website for one of Tara's co-workers.
So no, I'm not exaggerating when I say I've been working non-stop, but it really has paid off.
This week I had an interview for an internship with Pixar that Dr. Egbert arranged for me. I think it went really well, but I won't hear back for a few weeks. It would be really awesome to get the internship, but at the same time I don't have my heart set on it because video games are what I really intend to do. Don't get me wrong, if Pixar takes me for the internship, I would love to stay and work there as long as they'll keep me, but video games are what really interest me, so I wouldn't be heartbroken. Anyway, I think they were somewhat impressed by all of the graphics experience I've been getting this semester, so hopefully I'll make it to the next round.
Time for another round of awesome things!:
Ray tracing
Pixar
Mario Galaxy
TES4:Oblivion
TES4 mods
Supreme Commander
Spiderman 3
Dashboard Confessional
Sufjan Stevens
Ratatouille
Smash Bros. Melee
Gray Fox
Quad core
In Rainbows (Radiohead's new album)
In Rainbows' distribution method
Live
Airwalk
Slashdot
Harry Potter 7 (again)
Signal Fire video
Ubuntu 7.10
Compiz Fusion
Amarok
C++
OpenGL
Amazon MP3 downloads
Cycling
1062 TMCB
5 comments:
An internship with Pixar would be very impressive. Even if you choose to not stay with them, that would still look amazing on a resume. Hopefully it works out for you. Good to hear that things are going well.
(had some typos in my last comment so I had to delete it)
Hooray, welcome back to blogdom! You know, I just saw "Newsies" a few days ago and it made me think that they should make a musical called "Bloggers" about the bloggers strike of '07.
That stuff you've been working on sounds awesome. It makes me vaguely regret not subjecting myself to the actual computer science major ;-) But Syntax, Phonetics, and Historical Linguistics all at once was my own special punishment!
I hope you get a cool internship - that would be so great for future jobs!
If you do an internship with Pixar you might meet Mike's friend who works there now. He started there with an internship through BYU and then they ended up hiring him and his name is in the credits for Ratatouille!
Yo Dave, glad the hard work is paying off. Josh, I like your idea for a musical. Jeremy would have to be one of the main characters.
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