Oh my. Last weekly post.

• Decided that the reprap would have to wait until I got myself across the country. Yup, no print in California before the end of the summer, very sad.
• Finished up my internship. I'll post about it soon, but suffice it to say that I had loads of fun and got myself a fair bit of experience.
• Finished K&R. I learned stuff about ANSI C I hadn't seen before, and saw some actual good C getting slung around (sans error checking, which is arguably not good C at all). Like all forays into lower level computing, it makes me really appreciate things like objects and exceptions... You know, things that our parents couldn't have while they were going to school, uphill both ways. At any rate, taking things from the standard library as examples of how to write C style code is an interesting one: I have yet to see if this would work with python. The best thing about the examples is that they aren't contrived: they solve fundamental problems in very C-ish ways, and introduce you to the mechanisms behind the libraries you will be using on a regular basis. It's a very elegant way to introduce examples.
• Did a knight move: first up to Seattle, and then across the country and back to New York. Yup, I'm a chess piece.

So now here I sit, moving into a school dormitory for the last time (at least, in my undergraduate education). It’s been good, summer, but now it’s time to rest. Autumn is here, and I wouldn’t want you to see all the blood that’s gonna come out of this encounter.

• Tweaked/updated my Arimaa Icon set
• Got a job! Internship! Whatever you want to call it! Now I don't have to rely on intrinsic motivators to get things done!
• Checked out Jigsaw Renaissance and Dorkbot-Seattle at the same time by failing to get to the Dorkbot meeting in time to see most of the presentations
• Attended a meeting of the Seattle BUG (Blender User Group) (instead of attending the Random Hacks of Kindness hackathon)
• Got matched up through HackMatch right after getting accepted to aforementioned job, which got a bunch of people pinging me about summer jobs, right when I didn't need it anymore. Too slow, HackNY, too slow.

I haven’t closed any projects this week, but I finally gave in and re-edited my /etc/hosts file to block off Reddit and Hacker News. My productivity should automatically boost by 200%! Additionally, not being bogged down with finals means I can actually attend cool events when I hear about them: I heard about the Dorkbot the day of, and found out about the BUG the day before. It’s pretty cool to be without massive amounts of responsibilities, but like I said above, it’ll be nice to let my intrinsic motivators take a rest.