Los Alamos National Lab

I leave for New Mexico tomorrow where I'll be interning at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). I am extremely excited, and pleased that this satisfies my summer internship requirement for the NSF Scholarship for Service (SFS). There's a good possibility that the internship this summer will lead to a post-baccalaureate appointment at LANL, but it will depend on how well things go.

While out there, I'll also be working on Tomboy development at night and continuing my Hadoop research. It's going to be such an exciting and busy summer. I'm hoping that things go well, and that I'm able to be as productive as I'd like to be. I've also got a number of other goals:

• Read a couple more Palianhuk books
• Find a guitar and learn to play it
• Enjoy the incredible sky of Los Alamos at night
• Explore the culinary offerings of Santa Fe
• Write some poetry

I may need some help staying motivated, so I'm going to update the blog weekly with what I've done. I'll also update with how work at LANL is going, if I'm allowed. I don't really know how that's going to work out. I'll be sure to find out what I can and cannot talk about.

Update on grades coming soon, but I got an A in Operating Systems, and I am really excited about that.