CS371p Fall 2020 Blog
2 min readOct 12, 2020
- What did you do this past week? I’d say that it’s been a pretty average week for me. I prepped for my first wave of midterms, and I think I did well on them.
- What’s in your way? I’d say I need to find the motivation to start exercising again. I keep telling myself to start simple with morning runs, but I haven’t committed to it yet.
- What will you do next week? I’m actually really looking forward to next week. I am taking the week off of my internship next week which I haven’t done in almost a year to prep for tests and continue interviewing places. I’ve kind of slowed down applying places because I am expecting a return offer by the end of the month, but nothing is guaranteed until it’s in writing.
- If you read it, what did you think of The Open-Closed Principle? I have not read The Open-Closed Principle yet.
- What was your experience of iterator concepts, std::array, and std::vector? I am already familiar with all three of these concepts. It seems like just syntax differences because I already took SWE.
- What made you happy this week? I got news about my full-time return offer being quite likely this week. My manager didn’t receive headcount initially, but I’ve interned here for almost two years, and she has fought extremely hard to make it happen. She has a mystery plan that I don’t know all the details of, but she had to get approval on her plan by the director, senior director, vice president, and an HR contact for our product group, and she gave me the news that she received approval from all those people yesterday. And even better news is that the Proofpoint Austin office is between leases because they wanted to save the money once Covid hit. So, my dad doesn’t want me to sign an apartment lease until the office location is picked, so he offered to let me stay at our beach house in Puerto Vallarta for a few months while they finalize the location of the office!
- What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week? When looking for a full-time role, be sure to network with family and friends. I began trying to get referrals from my parent’s old work colleagues, and the referrals helped me get the first-round interview at many companies.