There has been a lot of stuff going on lately! A flock of interns arrived the last week, so now our total count is 35+ interns. Crazy... It's so hard to remember names, the only way to do it is by getting their phone numbers (reminds me of freshman year lolz). We've all been eating/drinking/talking PLUS the new IAESTE Indian crew has arrived so we have doubled our Indian friend tally. WOO!



This last weekend a bunch of us went to Bangalore to see what the fuss is about. Seriously, I love the city life. It made me miss Seattle a lot!! There was a McDonalds across the street from our hotel, but it wasn't the same :( They have a chicken Big Mac that was actually REALLY good.. Anyways, it was a very inspiring trip. Three years ago when I read about Bangalore and the development of India in The World Is Flat, I had no idea I would one day be visiting the city. I had a tingly feeling. It is a definite melting pot city with a lot of different ethnicity's (mainly Indian and Chinese/Japanese). I really liked it! Except the hotel we stayed in woke us up at 8 AM for check out the day we were to leave because we checked in at 8 AM the previous day (we only wanted to stay a night in the hotel). I guess in India your check out time is 24 hours after the exact time you check in... WTF. It was a rude awakening. Another thing to add: we took a bus to and from Bangalore (each lasting 10-12 hrs) and it was fucked. The roads are like FULL of potholes and you are seriously flying out of your seat/bed during the ride. Zero sleep.

A group of us (business/finance/engineer majors) are planning to develop our own start-up company. We've been talking about it for the last couple of weeks, and it is very realistic with our current network. We seriously have sooooooo many connections through networking that we would be stupid not to use them, especially since we all want this and we're all here at the same time. IT"S VERY EXCITING!!! A lot of work though for sure...

My project is, again, almost done! I have finished developing a Principle Component Analysis algorithm for Matlab and now I am almost done with Independent Component Analysis. ICA is MUCH more complex than PCA, due to it's non-linearity, so I've found algorithms online through the GSL Scientific Library for Matlab. I still have to tailor it to my project's specific needs, but I can see the light and it is bright and beautiful.

I am OFFICIALLY returning to Seattle on August 9th around 3:30PM. It's will be bitter sweet b/c I know I'll miss everyone here but I can't wait to see home again! FOOOOOOOOOD!! I've lost a lot of wait....