Back to School

Done with my first midterm at UT Dallas! It was an ochem midterm and it went alright, definitely harder than some of the midterms at SJSU that took 20 minutes to finish :)

Since I'm paying out of state tuition, I figured I need to find other ways to take (legal/ethical/etc) advantage of my time on campus. So I decided to try and get back into the exercise routine and swimming laps when I'm here on Tuesdays/Thursdays. The initial goal was to come in early since the pool is only open from 7-9 and 11-1, but I think that's only happened a couple times in the last few weeks. I even paid a nominal fee for a locker and towel service as extra motivation to go more consistenly. Swimming is kind of annoying, but I figure it's good for me and the swimmers on tv are always super buff. It's always satisfying at the beginning when you see a lot of progress and feel really sore as you go from pure lethargy to somewhat regular exercise. After three weeks, I can finally swim 20 laps without dying in short pool. Of course, we used to have to do this every other week in middle school so I'm now almost as fit as I was when I was 11.

There was a job fair going on today in the gym right next to the pool so I was going to go and check it out after my swim: see if Google Dallas was there, see if anyone would believe that I was a PM at Google without a resume, snag a few freebies, etc. Unfortunately, there a freaking dress code to get into the gym for the job fair! WTF! No shorts, no sandals, no athletic shoes, no jeans. At a CS/EE job fair!!! I had jeans on so I couldn't go in, but there's no way I could have passed that kind of dress code when I was in college. Alas, maybe next time.