Blog Take 2

Well College is done and over with. On one hand it feels like forever ago and at the same time it feels like yesterday. I'm defintely glad the academic part of college is over but I defintely miss all the social aspects of it, theres really nothing else like the college community and I will miss it. However life moves on and I defintely love where I am working and I have the world's greatest girlfriend so life is still defintely awesome :). I also haven't found a church yet. Mostly this was because I was to lazy to wake up on sunday, but yesterday I was planning on going. Then I woke up with the worst stomach ache of my life. Not really sure where Im going to end up at but theres an alliance church practically in my back yard so starting there!

Work is amazingly awesome so far. It's defintely a challenge although right now its mostly a challenge because I'm relearned skills I only used junior year and theres a learning curve assoicated with the software and processes required. That said this is good, its keeping my mind actively engaged although I find as the clock draws nearer five my mind gets completely exhausted. Normally I'd take a couple hour break before getting back into it but this isn't college anymore!The 8 hour work day is however awesome because I come home, and have free time. I have to say Penn State Behrend really, despite its flaws gives you a great education. Once you're done you feel like a 40 hour week is only part time! That said my sleep schedule is still adjusting, but I'm for the most part doing well. I now wake up between 6 and 6:30. I could get up at 7 but my body just always wakes up once then due to high school. No point in going back to sleep for 30 minutes to an hour. I usually just toss and turn anyway because I know I have to get up anyway.

I can't get to much into what I do but I'm a research engineer, and if you guessed what I do is related to comptuer engineering you might even be correct! My co-workers are awesome. I basically mostly interact with two people for the project I'm working on - My Team lead and another guy whom I shall call my tech lead. My tech lead is just a co-worker who is giving me tasks, answering my questions and getting me up to speed so I'm useful. As I suspuected out of college students are sort of useless. We've proven through the interviews we can learn things, and we have a basic handle on the concepts. Now we got to learn how to apply our small skillset as well as grow it to be useful on our team! My tech lead is awesome, and if I had to guess someone who I will probably resemble 5 years down the road. He's a real quick thinker prone to mistakes. However his attention to detail is far greater than mine, and this is a complete necesitty where I work so I'm having to learn. I made quite a bit of progreess on that today though.

I also have a cubicle mate, whom is really cool. Unfortunately we're working on different projects. The reason for this is to expose us to other projects going on. The downside is, well he can't help me nearly as much as he would otherwise be able too and vice versa. Also the company where I work gave us some rather BEASTLY computers. It's actually better than my desktop o.O. By quite a bit. And the IT department is terrific, everything is setup and just works flawlessly.