Bringing everyone up to speed...

hey everyone.

it has been a long time since I last wrote to people back home. Here's a bit of what has happened since the end of last semester.

1.) IdeaTree Design, the company I helped co-found last summer when I stayed at Olin, officially closed its doors as a student-led design firm of sorts. The whole process from start to finish is arguably one of the more complete projects I have been a part of, covering many areas spanning education, design, business, and more.

2.) I finished my second semester at Olin, and now I'm starting a one year long leave of absence to hopefully get a better sense of what I want to do after Olin, get unique project experience (with some sort of engineering/entrepreneurship mashup) , and generally get a sense of what the "real world" is.... we like to call it life beta. :)

3.) moved into 6 bedroom house with 7 other Olin students. The house was previously leased by students from a nearby college which will go unmentioned who absolutely thrashed the house. I don't feel like writing about how dirty the house was...suffice it to say that amidst layers of grime and between the biohazards were parts of the house that required only intense scrubbing. In the end, it should be a nice source of projects and good old home improvements projects, and maybe even look really nice.

4.) started working at Solidworks and I absolutely love it. Solidworks is a CAD Software program, essentially letting you model any kind of 3-D object using a computer...

anyways, I'm actually at Olin right now...I just finished using the microscopes with camera attachments from the materials science lab to get up and close pictures of small parts from a Norelco 8160XCLL automatic/self-cleaning shaver for a modeling project at work.

until next time,
tuts