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Job Search: Complete

This post is a follow-up to Real Life Update
Well, it was brief but exhausting. My job search has now come to a close. I interviewed at a large number of companies, got offers from a smaller number, and accepted an offer from Yelp. I’ll be starting in June on the Infrastructure team, doing something [...]

Real Life Update

I’m about to finish my second-to-last semester of college. That in and of itself is perhaps a somewhat stunning thing to think about. Equally important, of course, is the question of what I’ll do once I leave. I’ve been interviewing with a half-dozen companies, and just got back the other day from a trip up [...]

Summer Employment

Well, my job search is over. As of today, I’ve accepted an offer from Google for a summer internship. I’ll be in New York City from June 1st through August 21th, working at Google’s 9th Avenue office. I’m not sure where exactly I’ll be living (I’m looking to apartments, student housing, etc., but haven’t settled [...]

A Beautiful Day To Be Outside

Today was an absolutely beautiful day. Clear blue skies, mid-70’s temperature, low smog, completely perfect. So, like any other sane human being, I decided to take a walk. Specifically, I hiked up to the Claremont Hills Wilderness Park, which is a nice little place a few miles north of campus. On the way there, I [...]

Racialism, White Guilt, and Why I Don’t Like Classes Sometimes

So, through a series of events not entirely within my control, I find myself this semester studying “American Studies” at Scripps College (one of the other colleges in the Claremont University Consortium, along with my college, Harvey Mudd College). The particular focus of my American Studies course, which was listed in the course catalog as [...]