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Wondering if a Carnegie Mellon degree is right for you? Read about our students' experiences through the MS in Software Engineering, Technical Track program.

Rahul is a full-time MS Software Engineering, Technical Track student. He loves traveling, trekking, swimming and is a complete movie buff.
Anthony is a 2nd year part time student in the MS Software Engineering, Technical track program and works at OSIsoft as a Software Engineer. He loves spending time with his family, hiking, biking, gardening, cooking, and sometimes photography.
Suma is an alumna of the MS Software Engineering, Technical Track program. A Mechanical Engineering undergrad, she loves writing and is passionate about music, shopping and dogs.
Minh is a Software Design Engineer at Microsoft and alumnus of the MS Software Engineering program. He is also a Vietnamese community activist, a cat-lover and passionate fan of film music.
Nick is a Software Engineer at Google and a first-year grad student at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley. He loves hiking, gaming, and both really extremely good and extremely bad movies.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

A Refreshing Vacation - Now Back to School!


We are all back from our semester break. I say break because most of us in the part time program also work full time -- some of us probably didn't take any vacation (I was fortunate enough to take two weeks off). Nevertheless, it was great to have some time off to catch up on work, to run procrastinated errands, and of course, rest.

I took the Christmas weekend to drive up north with my family to see the Humboldt County Redwoods... it rained on the days I was there. However, seeing these enormous giants that stood still and haven't changed for decades and centuries was amazing. I guess it provides some balance to the life of the computer scientist, in which technology changes very rapidly.

Carnegie Mellon's Winter break is roughly around four weeks. As I recall, the Spring and Summer breaks are two weeks shorter. This worries me a little bit, but maybe we'll be so busy there will be no time to worry. It'll be full steam ahead starting from here.

It's the start of the new semester! For us in the part time Software Engineering Masters 2011 program, we are taking "Software Requirements". I don't have much to say about the class now, but in a few weeks, when the course work really starts taking off, I'll write more. Thanks for reading!

posted by Anthony Tang @ 10:29 AM  2 comments

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