Tie and Jacket

I've had to dawn my professional attire more often than usual this last week since I've been searching for a summer internship. I've interview with Xerox and CDM so far, which was arranged through Second Summer. I decided to attend the MIT European Career Fair as well. By attending, I mean wander around aimlessly in a sea of upperclassmen and graduate students in suits. I talked to Shell and Procter & Gamble. Both just told me to apply online. I don't really want to work in Europe, and wasn't expecting to accomplish anything, I just wanted to get the feel of a career fair. I went to a Google BOLD program info session today, which is an internship in the business side of the company. There were students from Harvard and Tufts there as well, and the job didn't sound too much like what I was looking for since it involved nothing technical. I might still throw an application out anyways.

Second Summer

We ended up finally getting our device for Second Summer to work about an hour before we had to present it at 3pm, and had to stay up until 5am last night. We managed to win the competition though, so we each got a graphing calculator. There were five teams, all of us were freshman. Our product was the Quake-Lock, which would lock your cabinet in the event of earthquake. The weight at the top produces at torque about the hook, which releases a spring-loaded pin, which catches the groove on the door, locking the cabinet. The other items were a signaling device for the back of a bike, a game to teach children what to do with disaster, a survival box for when power goes out and a floating wheelchair.

No Fooooood

I tried to type up a long article about IAP, but that didn't go too well and was kind of boring, so maybe I'll just write about things in chunks.

Spanish House doesn't cook during IAP. As a result, I have to cook for myself. I have had my share of college-quality dinners now, which includes burnt grilled cheese, macaroni & cheese with way too much pepper, and fettuccine alfredo with an occasional clump of undercooked noodles. I've also resorted to eating spagetti when I am lazy, since it is easy to make. I do come out with a good dinner about two or three times a week though. Pork chops and salad comes out well.

Web Page Designing

IAP has found me busier than I had originally anticipated. A large chunk of that is due to Second Summer, a design competition for freshmen that I am doing. I just got a competent website for my team posted, although I still have to fix some things up. It should be fine by Friday. I didn't have Dreamweaver this time around so I had to code everything by hand, which was a bit of a pain.

http://web.mit.edu/mestrada/www/secondsummer/

And since I get free hosting on my mit account, I also uploaded by old website I made senior year for web page design. We had to make a business. While everyone else sold guitars, clothing, and paintball equipment with their mock-businesses, I did this

http://web.mit.edu/mestrada/www/JurrassicMart/

This is what I return to

I had a rare instance of completely free time during Monday afternoon, so I made a trip to Boston Common with Chidi. Two days before this I had been playing tennis in shorts. The snow was a couple days old so it was slush/ice.