I finished out last quarter with my best GPA so far in college and although it wasn't quite as high as I was hoping, I'm still really happy with how it turned out.
This was nice going into spring break because I was feeling good by the time I took a cross-country (vertically) roadtrip to Arizona to see my brother and meet my nephew :)
I also stopped in some very cool places along the way including the Hoover Dam, the Grand Canyon and Zion National Park (which is totally my new second favorite place after Arches National Park)
Just look how cool it is!!!(Yes, that's me up there)But anyway, I started Spring quarter last Monday and I'm really excited about my programming class. I'm taking advanced data structures and this will be my first class taught in Java. I'm really glad to be starting something more high-level and visual because C was feeling pretty dry after a year and a half on the command line.
I also went to the North West regional Women in Computer (NWrWIC) conference today in Portland. This was definitely my favorite conference yet. I'm starting to feel more comfortable and less like I'm the biggest amateur in the room (which, yeah, I know, I've never really been), but I'm just feeling a lot more comfortable. I also went into this conference assuming that all Summer 2014 internships were already filled, so I didn't put pressure on myself to network much and it turned out to be my best networking yet! I'm up tonight applying for internships at Puppet Labs in Portland and Intel in Hillsboro. I'd be completely psyched to get either of these, so we'll see!
