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Monday, September 22, 2008
All Good Things Must Come To an End
Last month, my team wrapped up our eBay/PayPal practicum and delivered a very cool product to the client on time. We even got to do a presentation at the eBay/PayPal conference center there to demo our work to other employees, and what makes me really proud is that our work will live on as an open-source project. There’s also a strong likelihood that we’ll be invited to speak at the next PayPal Developer’s Conference when they will be presenting our work to the developer community. Cool, eh?
The end of the practicum last month also marked the end of my two-year journey through Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley. So on August 9th, 2008, some 45 graduates walked to the pomp and circumstances on the NASA campus at Moffett Field to receive our Master’s diplomas. For me, it was my Master’s Degree in Software Engineering.
At our graduation ceremony, our Class of 2008 also presented our class gift to the Carnegie Mellon family: our own CMU Silicon Valley Fence. Now, for those who don’t know, there exists a long tradition of repainting a certain fence that exists at the main campus at Carnegie Mellon University. Student organizations would paint the fence to their desire to advertise student events or send messages to the campus community. Well, in the last weeks of final semester, the west coast graduates collected money and build our own small fence here on the Silicon Valley campus. This class gift was completely student-run: we came up with the idea, collected the money, and while we had a contractor built it, a bunch of us came out on a Sunday to paint it with Silicon Valley themes. At the end, we dedicated the fence to the late Randy Pausch. We’ve even posted pictures and a small video , and this has also been covered by the campus press.
Now all good things must come to end. During our graduation ceremony, we said goodbyes to each other, and I hope that many of these friendships that we have built will last for long time. I am a bit sad already to think about the fact that I won’t be seeing many of these people again, so I sure hope that people will still come out to our regular Class of 2008 social gatherings.
Looking back, I can’t believe how fast these two years have gone by. It really seemed like yesterday when we just started this program. It was lot of hard work, and maybe that’s why time really flew. Was it worth? Absolutely. I’ve learned a great deal about software engineering, a month after graduation I was promoted to Senior Software Design Engineer at work, and I am already hearing rumors about classmates forming their own new companies. Shhh… it’s a secret.
This is it. My last blog entry, but certainly not my last affiliation with Carnegie
Mellon Silicon Valley. Hope you enjoyed the read, and if you have any questions, feel free to email me at nguyentriminh@yahoo.com. Good night, and good luck!
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