Today is the first time since February that I’m actually pushing something onto Octopress. Skimming over much of my Junior Spring semester at CMU, I was monstrously busy with some difficult classes (Roni’s Machine Learning and Cosma’s 402 just to name a few), then throw on top of that the Lambda Pi chapter’s first semester of operation as a chapter. We held our first Derby Days (Seth Vargo deserves a mention for his incredible job on that website, which he did mostly alone), initiated our first class (for which I had the honor of being Ritual Chairman), graduated our first Seniors, and earned ourselves our first Province Balfour Award (again, Seth). This summer, I’m looking forward to representing my fraternity chapter as the Delegate to our Grand Chapter held in Washington, D.C., and I might be making a cameo appearance at BLTW.

This summer, I’m back to work at CMU with another research division. For the next two months I’ll be doing geoparsing with Judith Gelernter in LTI. The project has a lot of interesting background on social media interactons and I’m hoping it’ll give me lots of table-talk in the future, to piggy-back my previous research work at CMU. Recruiters love hearing about the weird stuff you can accomplish with current statistics methods. It’s like a weird arms race of who can come up with the most terrifying implications for user data.

Other than that, it seems like nothing has really changed since the beginning of the year, and it doesn’t even seem like it was that long ago. The only noticable difference that I can tell is that I’m using Spotify now instead of Pandora and I’m living with 4 of my brothers in an off-campus house instead of with 15 of my brothers in the Sigma Chi house.