27 9 / 2011
The Briefest of Updates
Brie-fest proper noun. An annual festival held in Providence, RI, to celebrate the creamy excellence of Brie cheese in its many varieties.
Just kidding. But I wish.
I haven’t put anything up here all summer, in part due to business. I spent the summer interning at Microsoft as a PM in Windows Core, working on a new security feature of Windows 8. While this was definitely interesting and I learned a lot — about various Windows security stacks, the industry as a whole, etc. — I got somewhat lost in the immenseness of the corporation, and very much missed writing code (I was mostly working on documentation and testing). I spent a lot of time in Redmond though, and got a great taste of the real world… for better or worse. I’m currently doing a lot of soul searching as to where I want to end up in the next few years (the end of school seems way, way too close), but I’ll figure it all out eventually. I guess I’m only a junior. I’ll keep you posted, maybe.
This semester I’m doing two independent studies (TAing and an web dev project, which I’ll say more about eventually), and taking two classes: Graphics (lots of C++) and Fiction (lots of English). I think this blog will be a great place to put up things I write in Fiction — both the longer stories, and excerpts from my “writer’s journal” which I find especially interesting. So, this semester, my posts (should they exist) will consist mostly of my fiction writings and related material. You have been warned.
A quote to finish:
Nihilism, American cheese, and following orders are the three things I hate in this world. -Adam Frees
