It’s really hard to believe that only one year ago, I was a participant on that stage and not a spectator. ’04 had some good representation, I saw Alec, Morgan, Paige, Celeste, Jeff, Amy, Anne, Emma, Brent, Ashley, Britney, Trevor, Nate, Freddy, am I forgetting anyone? About 20% of our class in all. Got some good photos on my new camera as well, check out SAAS Graduation 2005.
SAAS graduation is tonight. One year ago I was in the same spot as this years graduation class. The year has gone by really fast and I don’t think I’m ready to see the class of ’05 graduate. As every second ticks on, I loose a little bit of what I enjoyed so much their. I have a handful of friends that are graduating at SAAS, so I’ll go see them tonight. I will also talk with the teachers. But man oh man…has it really been that long? I guess so. Only three more years (?) of college.
One of the “perks” of working at Nordstrom is the RFID card. Actually, just about every company has something like it. The point is to keep people who shouldn’t be in, out. It also makes it easier to track where people go. And if someone loses their card, you only have to disable their card number (instead of replacing the lock and ALL the keys).Yesterday, my card wasn’t working to well. For some reason, being in my wallet was making it not work. The problem was solved by simply taking my card out of my wallet. Easy enough.
Then just now I remembered that I already had an RFID card in my wallet, my school ID card. I had never used its RFID function, so I didn’t think about it. So when my Nordstrom card and my Blaster card were both in my wallet, they both scanned, and the reader freaked out. Interesting.
We have our money, we have our shopping list. But now we have to jump through some more hoops to get our stuff. We’re having to work with the Finance and Operations department to get some music licensing issue taken care of now. Ugh.
Today is pretty much my last day as a free man. Tomorrow I start my intern ship at Nordstrom’s. I’ll go right from that to setting up the MIR station at Mines, then school starts on the 23rd of August. School will be be pretty much non-stop until mid-December (end of Fall semester). That will be my first break. Of course, that will only last for about a month, just long enough to catch my breath. Then I start up again mid-January and go at it again until school gets out in May. w00t!
I looks like UW has made DARPA’s cut for the 2006 Grand Challenge, although it’s not that obvious. A picture of UW’s vehicle cross-referenced with a DARPA press release (PDF) lead me to that conclusion. This is rather exciting news since I worked on a similar (concept?) vehicle last year at UW.
I hope that Mines gets on the boat and starts a Grand Challenge vehicle soon. I would do it myself, but my plate is pretty much full for the time being with new CSM Broadcasting Club and whatnot.
Since finals are all done, grades are starting to come in…although they won’t officially be released until the 17th at 10am MST.
Here’s what I know so far:
Just finished with my last final. First year done: check.
Going to checkout and head to Broomfield.
Just finished with my Web Programming Final, online of course. The final was easier than the mid-term. I should be getting an A in this class.
Packed pretty much all day, once again reaffirming the fact that I have too much stuff. Also made another trip up to Broomfield to drop off another load. I think one more load should do it. Family Guy once again was excellent, so was American Dad. My Sunday night’s are now gone.